MONMOUTH — The Opus One Big Band, featuring some of the finest big band musicians in central Maine, will perform Saturday, March 10, at Cumston Hall.

The band, under the direction of Dale Perkins, will perform in concert to benefit Cumston Hall and Monmouth Academy’s band music program.

In the tradition of Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Gene Krupa and Glenn Miller, the Opus One Big Band has planned a concert full of favorites as well as lesser-known tunes.

The program includes such jazz and swing standards of the 1930s and ’40s as “In The Mood,” “Sweet Georgia Brown,” “Straighten Up and Fly Right,” “Woodchopper’s Ball,” “Jersey Bounce,” “The Way You Look Tonight,” “Four Brothers,” “Stars Fell on Alabama” and “Sing, Sing, Sing.”

The show will also include some pieces written after the heyday of big bands, including the 1961 Horace Silver hit “Filthy McNasty;'” “Taste of Honey,” made popular by Herb Albert in the 1970s; “Centerpiece” from 1980s jazz composer Frank Mantooth; and “Jazz Police,” a composition of contemporary artist Gordon Goodwin and his Big Phat Band.

The Opus One Big Band has been playing for more than 20 years. Band members are Joe Kingston, Barry Saunders, Larry Williams, John Morneau and Tom Stott on sax; Michelle Kingston, John Foss, Dave Langzatel, Brian Nadeau and Dianne Fenleson on trumpet; Lee Prager, Meg Hausman, Doug Kennedy and Megan Kennedy on trombone; and Ken LaBrecque, Jim Perkins, Greg Lindholm and Dan Schneider, rhythm section.

In the tradition of great bands of the late 1930s, the Opus One Big Band brings its own vocalist, Suzanne Proulx.

The 7:30 p.m. concert is part of an ongoing series to bring a variety of live musical performers to Cumston Hall, 796 Main St.

Tickets, $10 for adults/$5 for students, are available at Cumston Public Library, Apple Valley Books and Peppers Restaurant in Winthrop and the Holocaust and Human Rights Center on the Univeristy of Maine at Augusta campus. Tickets also available at the door and online at www.friendsofcumstonhall.org.