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JookJoint Shimmy Blues will celebrate the end of summer with a blues boat party featuring the popular Gordon Webster Quartet with Brianna Thomas on vocals. Our blues boat party will take place on Friday, September 12th. We will board the "Lucille" at NY Skyport Marina at 23rd Street and FDR Drive. We are able to offer discounted prices until August 27th. If you wish to get in at this price please visit www.jookjointshimmyblues.blogspot.com

The pricing is as follows:
$25 online payment until August 27th
$35 online payment August 28th and after
$40 at the docks.

Don't miss it. Early discount price of $25 ends next week!  

It's summer. It's beautiful. It's the perfect time to dance lakeside while the crickets chirp along to the sounds of the Shiny Lapel Trio. During the day take workshops with a number of fabulous teachers from both RI and CT... in between classes jump in the lake for a quick swim. It is the best of everything summer has to offer with all the best parts of swing! Come and see what the Southern New England Swing Collaborative has planned for its first ever Midsummer Swingout! For more information visit http://www.sneswingcollaborative.com/     Read More...

Come learn to do the fancy footwork and unique stylings of Jason Platt and Amanda Dadonna.

Three classes:

• 3:00pm-4:00pm: Jason will show leads some fancy footwork variations and moves.
• 4:15pm-5:15pm: Amanda will teach follows how to do switches and swivels.
• 5:30pm-6:30pm: A combined lead and followers class where everyone will get a breakdown of the unique moves of Jason and Amanda

Take all three classes for our normal price of two!

Cost of all three classes: $20

Followers are encouraged to come at 3:00pm to help our leads!

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Get out your dancing shoes and your air mattresses - the Connecticut Lindy Exchange is coming up quickly, July 25-27th!
Have YOU registered yet?

We're excited to welcome dancers from all over to the Connecticut Lindy Exchange! We have dancers coming from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virgina, Washington, Australia, Canada and Korea to New Haven, CT for a weekend of great music and dancing, July 25-27th.

Live music will be with the Fried Bananas and Solomon Douglas Quintet, with national and local DJs including Devona Cartier, Loreto Agdinaoay, Rayned Wiles, Solomon Douglas, Camille Fontanella, Meghan Fitzpatrick, Dhruv Bhargava and Chris Oksanen.

Local CT dancers are encouraged to sign up to host our out-of-town guests.

More info on schedule, registration, music and hosting is up on www.ctlx.org.
See you there!!  

With summer just around the corner, so is Beantown Camp! There are just over three weeks until opening day! Spaces are still available to join campers from 27 states and 5 countries. If you have not yet signed up and would like to come share the fun, please register ASAP. There are 6 tracks of Lindy Hop classes and all levels are very welcome.     Read More...