When not busy playing to sweaty dance floors ’round the town’s burgeoning pub scene, the Pearly Shells are kept busy in the private sector playing some of Melbourne’s best rooms including:
The Regent Ballroom
The San Remo Ballroom
The Continental
The Australia Club
Crown Casino
The Hilton
The Winsor Hotel
The Plaza Ballroom
The Speigle Tent
BMW Edge Amphitheatre
ANZ Pavilion
The Melbourne Club The Rialto Sky deck The Royal Exhibition Buildings The RACV Club The Kelvin Club
…..The Melbourne Town Hall, just about all the other Town Halls and up-market reception joints uncountable. We know the backway in to some of the nicest places in town.In addition to the 10 piece Swing Orchestra, the Pearly Shells perform in a variety of smaller (and larger) line-ups to suit your occasion.
WHAT SIZE BAND DO YOU NEED?
The P.S. Trio
Piano, guitar, double bass makes a swinging, sophisticated and atmospheric sound. This Nat King Cole type line-up is popular at openings, cocktail parties, launches and more intimate weddings. Swap the piano for a horn and this combo can be mobile and un-plugged.
The Pearly Shells Quartet and Hot Five
The Pearlys Quartet consists of double bass, drums, guitar and a horn (Sax or Trumpet). In the Pearly Shells Hot 5 we add piano (or sometimes a 2nd horn). These are our most popular line-ups for averaged sized weddings, parties and other “doos”. The Quartet is also the line-up to be most often seen playing bars around Melbourne Town, the engine room of the band!
The Pearly Shells Hot Seven
With a 3 piece Horn section and full rhythm section ( double bass, Guitar , piano and drums), the Hot 7 is the band of choice when people are after that Swingin Big Band sound but are short on space or budget.
The Pearly Shells Swing Orchestra
Our ten piece orchestra consists of 3 saxophones, 2 trumpets, trombone, piano, guitar, double bass and drums.
Glamour from the word go. The Pearly Shells Swing orchestra is our showpiece “little big band” for corporate and society functions, conferences, festivals, dinner dances and larger parties. This bands ability to “go off” has made them the band of choice among Melbourne’s swing dancers.
The Pearly Shells Full Big Band
Our fifteen piece big band has 5 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, piano, guitar, double bass and drums.
The Count and the Duke’s classic size Big Band, the full catastrophe! Almost. Go on, you might as well get the girl singers along too!
Guest Vocalists
The Pearly Shells are proud to perform with some of finest female vocalists in Australia, including jazz divas to die for:
- Yvette Johansson
- Hetty Kate
- Swing Siren Julie O’Hara
- the Queen of the Blues Kerri Simpson
- R&B stylist Jody Bell
- Emma Franz
Pending availability, we can organise one of these great singers as guest vocalist with any of the Pearly Shells line-ups.
