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News • New Mexico • United States • 2012-01-25

The Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra Welcomes New Band Leader Nick Hilscher

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - On Jan. 12, 2012, the baton for the world famous Glenn Miller Orchestra was passed once again to a new bandleader. Assuming that role will be Nick Hilscher, whose Nick Hilscher Big Band has performed to stellar revues at such venues as Caesar\'s in Atlantic City, the Newberry Opera House in South Carolina and the State Theatre in Pennsylvania. Nick Hilscher and The Glenn Miller Orchestra will put audiences in the mood from the Rio Grande Theatre stage, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012.

Nick Hilscher landed the role of boy singer with the world famous Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1998, at the age of nineteen. A year later, he returned to Samford University to finish a degree in piano performance. In 2000, Nick came back to the GMO in the piano chair, before resuming the role of \"romantic balladeer\" until 2005. From 2005 to present, Nick has sung with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and was picked by the legendary Buddy Morrow to succeed him as TDO leader. Nick has led the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra since 2010.

\"Been listening to Glenn Miller and his Orchestra play the hits since I was a kid,\" Hilscher says. \"Man, that band could swing! No wonder it hit me like a ton of bricks, knocked me out and changed my life when I was eleven! I\'d never heard anything like that kind of music. It hit me at the deepest level a kid at that age could be hit.\"

Nick Hilscher is available for interviews to discuss his new role and what he hopes to achieve when he steps out onto the Rio Grande Theatre stage on Feb. 15. To set up an interview, please contact Theatre Manager David Salcido at 575-523-6403.

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