Make Music Winter with The Mellotones

Make Music Winter is a day of music-inspired fun held on the winter solstice. It complements the June 21 celebration of Make Music Day in the summer. The Museum celebrates with a day of free admission and a special performance at 1:00pm by The Mellotones, a 10-piece Duke Ellington Repertory Jazz Orchestra. Join us for a day of musical fun! Make Music Winter is FREE.

Join us for a day of musical fun! Make Music Winter is FREE. Please RSVP.

For the last 15 years, The Mellotones have had a very productive and entertaining life in San Diego and the surrounding areas. Led by Peter DeLuke who chose all professionals like himself.

In the Big Band/Swing Era Duke Ellington was just one of the very successful big names because of the creative capacity of composition, there were others, but Edward Ellington was the first and was given the name Duke.

The Mellotones repertoire is mostly Ellington and Strayhorn (Billy) who was a very gifted composer and pianist that contributed much to the musical library. The Mellotones also perform many other compositions of the swing era but are devoted to Ellington and Strayhorn for their excellence of composition.