Welcome! The Festival City Big Band, a 17-piece band based in Stratford, Ontario, has been entertaining audiences since 1995 with a wide range of music, including swing-era standards, contemporary jazz charts, Latin numbers, unclassifiably weird stuff and more. We've recorded two CDs: "For the Love of It," released in June of 2000, and "Easy to Love," released in December 2001. We keep busy with performances at numerous private and community functions across southwestern Ontario, including annual summer concerts in Stratford's Upper Queen's Park bandshell and the Castle Kilbride Concert Series in Baden. Most of our members perform in various other professional and community groups.

Clicking on the menu to the left will let you hear clips of us performing, learn more about who we are (and what we look like), check out our past and future appearances, leave comments, read reviews of the band and contact us. Enjoy!

The band is grateful to a whole lot of people who have booked us, supported us or simply made nice (or at least helpful) comments over the years. Contact information for most of them can be found on the links page.

Special thanks to the Stratford Kiwanis Club, which generously provides us with free practice space.