This Week: 5 December 2012

They heard the breeze in the trees, singing weird melodies,
and they named that the start of the blues...

This THURSDAY, Swing Patrol Juke Joint is back - head over to the Bedlam Bar, Glebe, for your fix of blues.  For a listening treat, Leigh Barker, Geoff Bull, Pugsley Buzzard at 505, Surry Hills, 8:30pm.  FRIDAY, Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield, 7:30pm.  Full Swing Quartet w/guest Dan Barnett, Lane Cove, 7pm.  Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Broadcasters at the Seymour Centre, Darlington, 6:30pm.  SATURDAY, the Swingtime Christmas Dance is on at Petersham RSL, 7:30pm.  SUNDAY, Pugsley Buzzard at the Cafe Lounge, 6pm.  Geoff Bull and the Finer Cuts, East Sydney Hotel, 5pm.  Unity Hall Jazz Band, Balmain, 4pm.  The Swinging Blades at Marrickville Golf Club, 3:30pm.

REMINDER:  There's NO Swing Pit or Roxbury this weekend.

From a whippoorwill out on a hill, they took a new note,
pushed it through a horn, 'til it was worn into a blue note...
("Birth of the Blues" at 1:13 Sammy Davis Jr) 

More gigs, links, and details below.
 

Thursday 6th

Swing Patrol Juke Joint @ Bedlam Bar
2 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, from 8.30pm, $6
(The monthly "blues" venue in Sydney, there's a class beforehand, 7:30pm.)

Leigh Barker &
The New Sheiks with Geoff Bull & The Finer Cuts and
Pugsley Buzzard @ 505
280 Cleveland St Surry Hills, from 8:30pm, $20/$15 bookings

Sydney Sound Big Band @ Rockdale RSL
45 Bay Street, Rockdale, from 7pm, FREE
(A dance partner is advised.)
 

Friday 7th

Bridge City Jazz Band @ Club Ashfield
1-11 Charlotte St, Ashfield, from 7.30pm, FREE
(A dance partner is advised)

Full Swing Quartet w/Dan Barnett @ Lane Cove Country Club
180 River Road, Lane Cove, from 7:00pm, FREE
(Meals and drinks available. There's a dance floor. A dance partner is advised.)

Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Broadcasters @ Seymour Centre
City Rd, Darlington, from 6:30pm, FREE
(Courtyard Sessions.  1920s and 1930s style swing jazz.)

Jive Bombers @ Club Bondi Junction
Gray St. Bondi Junction, from 7pm, FREE
(High energy boogie woogie.) 


Saturday 8th

Bob Henderson Jazz Band @ Tailors on Central
Mary St, Surry Hills, from 4-7pm, FREE
(A dance partner is advised)

Swingtime Christmas Dance @ Petersham RSL
7 Regent Street, Petersham, from 7:30pm, $25
 

Sunday 9th

Pugsley Buzzard (solo) @ Live at Sin-é, Cafe Lounge
277 Goulburn St, Surry Hills, from 6pm

Unity Hall Jazz Band @ Unity Hall Hotel
292 Darling St, Balmain, from 4-7pm, FREE

Swingin' Sundays with The Faculties @ Bronte Bowling Club
16 Wallace St, Waverley, from 4-7pm, FREE

Geoff Bull and The Finer Cuts @ The East Sydney Hotel
Cnr Crown & Cathedral Sts, Woolloomooloo, from 5-8pm, FREE

Bill Dudley's New Orleanians @ Technology Park Hotel
Wyndham St, Alexandria, 4:00pm, FREE

The Swinging Blades @ Marrickville Golf Club
Wharf Street, Marrickville, from 3:30pm, FREE
("Toe tapping, old time jazz." There IS a dance floor.)


Thursday 13th

Geoff Bull and the Finer Cuts @ Corridor
153a King Street, Newtown, from 7:30pm, FREE
(Elbow room only!)