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Down for the Count, one of the UK’s top swing orchestras – hailed as “Awesome!” by Michael Bublé – are bringing that classic big band sound to Cambridge. Formed by school friends in Buckinghamshire in the early 2000s, the orchestra’s Songs from the Golden Age of Swing tour will be calling into West Road Concert Hall next week. Expect recreations of swing favourites from the likes of Frank Sinatra, Nat ‘King’ Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, performed by the 30-piece ensemble. Founder and conductor Mike Paul-Smith read medicine at Oxford, before focusing on a career in music. He says: “We are a vintag…

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