"and a large portion of the NH type styles need dropping. How are you going to sell an arranger to a youngster if it is stuffed with ballroom dancing, bossa and samba styles?
I do agree with your views here Diki, but I'm not entirely sure you know what's going down on the NH circuit these days, regardless of general impessions gleaned from this forum. I know it's not in your usual bailiwick. At my stage of the game, though, NH's are about all what's left before I get hauled off to the spotlights in the sky.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that we don't have a single ballroom, bossa or samba in our repertoire. It's all 50's, 60’s, 70’s pop and rock. The folks from the Glenn Miller era are rapidly thinning out, so those in their eighties now are the early Elvis and onward crowd. That, in NH terms, is staying current.