It's almost unbelievable, but in 2025, The Pasadena Roof Orchestra will tour for the 56th year already, performing live music from the 1920s and 1930s. While Armstrong landed on the moon and the Beatles broke up, John Arthy, the orchestra's founder, found a treasure trove of original music arrangements in an attic in Manchester.

In the 1970s the orchestra came to public attention through appearances on all the major television shows and tours throughout the UK and Europe. The recipe for longevity is very simple: staying true to the original sounds played by the house bands of first-class hotels before the war and in the jazz clubs of New York during the roaring twenties.

A show by The Passadena Roof Orchestra consists of passionately re-enacted orchestrations of songs by The Great American Songbook composers, such as Irving Berlin and George Gershwin. Also popular songs by Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson and classic British dance band arrangements by Ray Noble and Lew Stone. The show is presented by singer and bandleader Duncan Galloway, who excels in anecdotes and typical British humour.

The Pasadena Roof Orchestra, still going strong after 56 years!