Monday, 25 February 2013

This Week: 27 February 2013

Pardon me boys, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?  Yes, on track 29... That's on the Tennessee line...
Can you afford to board the Chattanooga Choo Choo?  I've got my fare, with just a trifle to spare...

This FRIDAY, the Aston Martinis are at Palmer & Co, City North, 7pm.  SATURDAY, lindy the night away at Swing @ The Roxbury, Glebe, 8:30pm.  Night owls can continue down the road at Shake Rattle & Roll and dance 'til 2am!  SUNDAY, Dan Barnett Big Band will be at Unity Hall, Balmain, 4pm.  NEXT THURSDAY, bring your new "blues" moves to the floor at Juke Joint, Bedlam Bar, 8:30pm.  Hetty Kate will be at the Dome Bar, Surry Hills, 7:30pm.

This week's "Songs You Should Know":  Chattanooga Choo Choo.  (<-- CLICK to watch!!)
Performed by:  The Glenn Miller Orchestra.  Dancing: the Nicholas Brothers, Dorothy Dandridge.

MORE GIGS and details below.


Thursday 28th

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



Friday 1st March

Aston Martinis @ Palmer & Co
Abercrombie Lane, City North, from 7pm-10pm

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



Saturday 2nd

Swing @ The Roxbury
182 St Johns Rd, Glebe, from 8:30pm, $6


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


Shake Rattle & Roll @ Bedlam Bar
2 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, from 9pm-2am


Sunday 3rd

Dan Barnett Big Band @ Unity Hall Hotel
292 Darling St, Balmain, from 4-8pm, FREE 
(Dance area is now carpeted.)

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

Swingin' Sundays with The Faculties @ Bronte Bowling Club
16 Wallace St, Waverley, from 4-7pm, 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."   Practise your balboa, there's a dance floor.)


Wednesday 6th

Wednesday Night Jazz @ Bondi Junction RSL
1-9 Gray Street, Bondi Junction, from 7:10pm, FREE
(A dance partner with impeccable "time" is advised. There is a small dance floor.)



Thursday 7th

Swing Patrol Juke Joint @ Bedlam Bar
2 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, from 8.30pm, $6
("Blues" social dancing, there's a class beforehand at 7.30pm, $15 includes social.)


Hetty Kate @ The Dome Bar, Crown Hotel
Cnr Crown & Cleveland Sts, Surry Hills, from 7:30pm-10:30pm, $10

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


Monday, 18 February 2013

This Week: 20 February 2013

"I GOT RHYTHM, I got MUSIC, I got my man, who could ask for anything more...
 I got daisies in green pastures, I got my man, who could ask for anything more..."

Hold on to your hats this weekend!!  This FRIDAY, head over to Swing Pit, Newtown, 9pm. Trish is DJ-ing an entire set of A,A,B,A tunes for you to 'monkey' around on the dance floor.  To get warmed up, there's also a Level 2 class at 7pm; and a Level 1 class at 8pm.  SATURDAY, what you've been waiting for... Tuba Skinny(!!) at The Basement, 9:30pm, in dance-floor mode!  (See below for details.)  SUNDAY, Geoff Bull at the East Sydney Hotel, 5pm; Unity Hall Jazz Band, Balmain, 4pm; or The Swinging Blades, Marrickville Golf Club 3:30pm to get your balboa fill, and there's a dance floor. 
Plenty MORE gigs, links, details below!

This week's "SONGS YOU SHOULD KNOW":

I GOT RHYTHM. (<-- Click to listen @ 1min.)  Performed by: Ella Fitzgerald  (listen to the arrangement!).
I GOT RHYTHM. (<-- Click to watch @ 3:50.)  Dancing: Gene Kelly  (scene from An American In Paris).


Thursday 21st

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



Friday 22nd

Swing Pit @ St Stephens Hall
Church St, Newtown, from 9:00pm, $6 social
(There's a class beforehand at 8pm, $15 (social free).

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

Aston Martinis @ Club Five Dock RSL
66 Great North Road, Five Dock, from 8pm, FREE

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



Saturday 23rd

Tuba Skinny (USA) @ The Basement
7 Macquarie Place, City North, doors from 7:30pm, music >9:30pm
Dance floor mode.  Dinner & Show: $82.30.
Gen. standing room: at door $33; pre-book $27.50+bf

Dragon Ball @ Sydney Town Hall
483 George Street, Sydney, from 7:30pm, $60 gen. / $70 reserved seating.
(Live swing band, special shows, dancing, cocktails.  Dress up!)

The Lounge Bar Lotharios @ Carrington Hotel
The Great Art Deco Ball
15 Katoomba Street, Katoomba, from 7pm, $100 +bf

Jazz in the Garden @ Norman Lindsay Gallery & Museum
14 Norman Lindsay Cres, Faulconbridge, from 5pm, $28 / $15 / $6 under 12s
(Bookings essential.)

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



Sunday 24th

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

Puttin' on the Ritz @ Avalon Restaurant
18 Katoomba Street, Katoomba, from 6pm, $70

Blues Social Dancing @ Paddington RSL
220 Oxford Street, Paddington, from 5:30pm-8pm
(Free for attendess of the blues workshops.)

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

Unity Hall Jazz Band @ Unity Hall Hotel
292 Darling St, Balmain, from 4-7pm, 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."   Practise your balboa, there's a dance floor!)


Thursday 28th

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



Monday, 11 February 2013

This Week: 13 February 2013

"No gal made, has got a shade on sweet Georgia Brown...
Two left feet but oh so neat, has sweet Georgia Brown..."

This THURSDAY, bring your dance shoes to support "One Billion Rising" at Petersham Bowling Club 7:45pm, swing class at 7pm.  FRIDAY, Jive Bombers at Club Bondi Junction, 7pm; Aston Martinis at South Sydney Juniors 8:30pm.  SATURDAY, Swing at the Roxbury, Glebe, 8:30pm.  Roaring 20s & All That Jazz Festival, Blue Mountains Manor House Speakeasy, 6:30pm.  SUNDAY, Geoff Bull & The Finer Cuts at East Sydney Hotel, 5pm; Unity Hall Jazz Band, Balmain, 4pm.

"Georgia named her, Georgia claimed her, sweet Georgia Brown..."

This week's "Songs You Should Know":   Sweet Georgia Brown. (Click to listen.)
Performed by: Ella & Duke Ellington Orch.


More gigs, details, and links below.


Thursday 14th

One Billion Rising @ Petersham Bowling Club
77 Brighton Street, Petersham, from 7:45pm, swing class 7pm, $18
(An international fund raising event to protest violence against women and girls.)

Aston Martinis and Jordan C Thomas @ Rock Lily
The Star, 80 Pyrmont St, Pyrmont, from 6:30pm, FREE

I Hate Valentine's Day Rockabilly Revolution @ Torque Bar & Grill
153 Parramatta Road, Concord, doors open 6:00pm
(Featuring the Drey Rollin Band & DJ Grizzly Adams)

Geoff Bull and the Finer Cuts @ Corridor

153a King Street, Newtown, from 7:30pm, FREE
(Elbow room only!)



Friday 15th

Jive Bombers @ Club Bondi Junction
1 Gray St, Bondi Junction, from 7pm, FREE
 
Aston Martinis @ South Sydney Juniors
558A Anzac Parade, Kingsford, from 8:30pm, FREE
 

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



Saturday 16th

Swing @ The Roxbury
182 St Johns Rd, Glebe, from 8:30pm, $6

(Regular swing social dancing. No partner required.)

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


Sydney Sound Big Band @ Rockdale RSL
45 Bay St, Rockdale, from 7.30pm, FREE
(A dance partner is advised)


Greg Poppleton & the Bakelight Broadcasters @ Penrith RSL
8 Tindale St, Penrith, from 2pm, FREE
(Big dance floor. Great food. Plenty of free parking.)

The Roaring 20s & All That Jazz Festival
Valentine's Day Massacre Wake @ Blue Mountains Manor House Speakeasy
Montgomery St, Mt Victoria, NSW, from 6:30pm, $85 +bf
 

Sunday 17th

Unity Hall Jazz Band @ Unity Hall Hotel
292 Darling St, Balmain, from 4-7pm, FREE 
(The dance area is now carpeted.)

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

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


The Jive Bombers @ Cronulla RSL
Geralle St, Cronulla, from 12:30pm, FREE
(Arrive early for parking, or park at Woolooware Station catch train.)

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."   Practise your balboa, there's a dance floor.)


Thursday 21st

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



Monday, 4 February 2013

This Week: 6 February 2013

Turn to the right, there's a little white light...
Will lead you to my blue heaven...

This THURSDAY, bring your best 'sway' over to the Bedlam Bar, Glebe, for some "blues" heaven, it's Juke Joint time!  Now that you're warmed up, it's over to Newtown FRIDAY for Swing Pit, 9pm.  There's a level 2 class beforehand at 7pm, and level 1 at 8pm.  SATURDAY, Rip It Up at the Bald  Rock Hotel, Rozelle, if you're in the mood for some 50s R&R and Jump Blues.  SUNDAY, Geoff Bull & the Finer Cuts will be swingin' it at the East Sydney Hotel, Woolloomooloo, 5pm; Unity Hall Jazz Band, Balmain, 4pm; Swinging Blades at the Marrickville Golf Club 3:30pm for a balboa fix.  Next THURSDAY, bring your dancing shoes, come along and support this international fundraiser "One Billion Rising" at the Petersham Bowling Club, 7:45pm, class at 7pm. 

You'll see a smilin' face, a fireplace, a cozy room...
A little nest that's nestled where the roses bloom...


This week's "Songs You Should Know":  My Blue Heaven.  Performed by: Bing Crosby.

More details, links and gigs below.


Thursday 7th

Swing Patrol Juke Joint @ Bedlam Bar
2 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, from 8.30pm, $6 
(There's a class beforehand at 7.30pm, $15 (includes social).)


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



Friday 8th

Swing Pit @ St Stephens Hall
Church St, Newtown, from 9:00pm, $6 social only
(Level 2 class 7:00pm; Level 1 class 8:00pm.
 $15 for 1 class; $22 for 2 classes (social included).)


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



Saturday 9th

Rip It Up @ Bald Rock Hotel
Mansfield St, Rozelle (cnr Ramsay St), from 8pm-11pm, FREE
(50s R&R, Jump Blues.  Food available.)

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



Sunday 10th

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

Unity Hall Jazz Band @ Unity Hall Hotel
292 Darling St, Balmain, from 4-7pm, FREE
(The dance area is now carpeted.)


Swingin' Sundays with The Faculties @ Bronte Bowling Club
16 Wallace St, Waverley, from 4-7pm, 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." Practise your balboa, there's a dance floor!)


Thursday 14th

One Billion Rising @ Petersham Bowling Club
77 Brighton Street, Petersham, from 7:45pm, swing class 7pm, $18
(An international fund raising event to protest violence against women and girls.)
 
Aston Martinis and Jordan C Thomas @ Rock Lily
The Star, 80 Pyrmont St, Pyrmont, from 6:30pm, FREE

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