Lady K & The Kings of Swing Spring Concert

San Ramon is putting a spring big-band concert on its May calendar, with Lady K & The Kings of Swing set to play the Front Row Theatre on Sunday, May 3. (sanramon.ca.gov) The City of San Ramon lists the show at 2 p.m. at Dougherty Station Community Arts Center, 17011 Bollinger Canyon Road, and says tickets are $20 for all ages. (sanramon.ca.gov) The ticketing page bills the performance as “Swing Into Spring! An Afternoon of Jazz Standards and Latin Rhythms” and says Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Carla Helmbrecht will appear with the band. (tickets.sanramon.ca.gov) City arts pages describe Lady K & the Kings of Swing as a 17-piece big band based in the San Ramon Valley, drawing on repertory associated with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, George Gershwin and Frank Sinatra. (sanramon.ca.gov) That makes the concert part of San Ramon’s in-house performing arts lineup, not a one-off rental date. The city’s May venue calendar places the Lady K show between Team Theatre Improv on May 1-2 and “Mean Girls: High School Edition” starting May 15 at the same Front Row Theatre. (tickets.sanramon.ca.gov) The event also continues a recurring relationship between the band and San Ramon’s stages. The city’s ticket archive shows Lady K & The Kings of Swing presented a spring concert at Dougherty Valley Performing Arts Center on March 9, 2025, featuring East Bay High School Jazz All-Stars. (tickets.sanramon.ca.gov) For this year’s show, the city’s main performing arts page directs buyers to online ticket sales and lists box office hours from Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m., plus one hour before each performance. (tickets.sanramon.ca.gov) The setup is straightforward: a Sunday matinee, a $20 ticket and a city-run venue in Dougherty Station. For San Ramon residents scanning the local events list, it is one of the city’s featured performances for the first weekend of May. (sanramon.ca.gov, sanramon.ca.gov)