Lady K & The Kings of Swing Concert

San Ramon is putting big-band jazz on its spring calendar with Lady K & The Kings of Swing set for a Sunday, May 3 concert at 2 p.m. at the Front Row Theatre. (sanramon.ca.gov) The city’s April 17 news update lists the show at the Dougherty Station Community Arts Center, 17011 Bollinger Canyon Road, and says tickets are $20 for all ages. (sanramon.ca.gov) San Ramon Performing Arts describes the program as “Swing Into Spring! An Afternoon of Jazz Standards and Latin Rhythms,” with Grammy-nominated vocalist Carla Helmbrecht performing with Bay Area musicians. (tickets.sanramon.ca.gov) The concert lands in the city’s spring events lineup, which the San Ramon website is promoting alongside the Art & Wind Festival, Sheep Shearing Day at Forest Home Farms and other April and May programs. (sanramon.ca.gov) Lady K & the Kings of Swing is one of San Ramon’s community performing groups, and the city says the ensemble is a 17-piece big band rooted in jazz and swing traditions associated with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, George Gershwin and Frank Sinatra. (sanramon.ca.gov) That local role gives the show a civic angle as well as a musical one: the city is not just renting a hall, but presenting one of the resident groups tied to its arts and culture programming. (sanramon.ca.gov) The Front Row Theatre listing places the concert at the same venue that hosts improv and school theater productions later in May, underscoring how San Ramon uses the Dougherty Station complex as a regular performance hub. (tickets.sanramon.ca.gov) For concertgoers, the practical details are simple: the performance starts at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 3, and tickets are being sold through the city’s San Ramon Performing Arts box office. (tickets.sanramon.ca.gov)