Close your eyes and imagine you're in the presence of Glenn Miller at Magic Circle Theatre with The Moonlight Swing Big Band Orchestra on Sat., August 12.

Or keep your eyes open, because watching the band perform is just as good as listening to them!

Organized in 1996 through the vision of founder Don Treco, the Moonlight Swing Living History Big Band is a step backward in time. Not only are the arrangements from the 30s and 40s, but the organization also strives for that vintage look through swing era attire, on-stage choreography and arrangements taken directly from original 78s and V-Discs.

This incorporated not-for-profit, living-history musical organization is dedicated to preserving the music of the swing era. As a full sized, authentic recreation of the big swing bands of the 1930s-1940s, with twenty members, the band performs for a variety of public and private venues and also recreates the great 418th Army Air Forces Training Command band of WWII, led by Capt. Glenn Miller. The band has been privileged to perform for Bob & Dolores Hope at the Wings Over Stockton airshow in 1998, the Jimmy Doolittle Raiders Reunion in 2003, and members of the Tuskegee Airmen in 2005.