Our next release, We Take On The Town will feature the 6 piece band. I’ve taken the title from the song I heard from the Arbor All Stars alb

After the gig, I noticed her pictures from the night across social media and was very impressed with how they came out, so I asked her if sh

A brief post about our appearance earlier in the week at CafeJazz, Cardiff for the Preservation Jazz Society. The 6 piece band is in full sw

The WMC features bands most evenings of the week between 6 and 7 pm on their Glanfa Stage. As it is officially the Christmas Season, we play

Just a brief update from the monthly residency front. After 2 years or so of performing on the 1st Monday of each month at the CafeJazz, donnie joe’s American Swing is moving our Monday night spot up the road to Dempseys. Dempseys is the home of The Four Bars Inn, and from Monday the 5th of October donnie joe’s American Swing will be there on the first Monday of each month. This isn’t the only news for the band. In September we invited a Fiddle player to come down and sit in

The Wall2Wall Jazz Festival is put on by Black Mountain Jazz   the first weekend of September each year, This festival is 3 years old and ha

​This years Brecon Jazz Weekend saw donnie joe’s American Swing busy with performances on both Saturday and Sunday Afternoons. We also returned to the Brecon Rugby Club on Sunday night to close the festival weekend's festivities there as we had done the previous year. Our first outing on Saturday afternoon was at the White Swan Inn, Llanfrynach. This a great old Pub in the rural village just outside of Brecon. We performed a couple of well received sets in the afternoon as a