The Swing Book
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Lessons and dancing on Mondays
DANCE CLASSES
Houston Swing Dance Society
hsds@usa.net
713-662-3861
SSQQ Dance Studio
dance@ssqq.com
713-861-1906
WEB SITE
www.hsds.org
Web site for Houston Swing Dance Society—listing of clubs and lessons in Houston
WASHINGTON, D.C., AREA
NIGHTSPOTS
America Restaurant
Tyson’s I Shopping Center
Junction of Route 123 and Route 7
Tyson’s Corner, Virginia
703-847-6607
Live music and dancing Fridays, DJ Sundays
Chevy Chase Ballroom
5207 Wisconsin Avenue NW
202-363-8344
Home base of Tom Koener and Debra Sternberg, the deans of swing dancing in D.C.; DJ and dancing on Mondays
Lulu’s Club Mardi Gras
1217 Twenty-Second Street NW
202-861-5858
Lessons and dancing on Wednesdays
Nick’s
642 South Pickett Street
Alexandria, Virginia
703-751-8900
Swing dancing all weekend long on two dance floors, Friday and Saturday; Hollywood-style swing on Thursdays
Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo
7300 MacArthur Boulevard
Glen Echo, Maryland
301-340-9732
Dances three Saturdays a month (first and third sponsored by the Washington Swing Dance Committee) in this spacious, gracious ballroom
Vienna Tap Room
146 East Maple Avenue
Vienna, Virginia
703-255-6800
Tuesday Lindy and Wednesday jitterbug sponsored by the Potomac Swing Dance Club
DANCE CLASSES
Donna Barker
Ken Haltenhoff
www.erols.com/swing4me
703-978-0375
Fidgety Feet
At the DC Dance Collective
202-362-7244
Flying Feet
Ellen Engle
Marc Shepanek
www.erols.com/flyfeet
301-299-8728
Tom Koerner and Debra Sternberg
www.gottaswing.com
703-527-6734
John “Psychoboy” McCalla
www.psychoboy.com
410-875-9147
Frank Morra and Carole Berghers
202-363-2239
www.jitterbuzz.com
WEB SITES
www.jitterbuzz.com
Frank Morra and Carole Berghers’s extensive site; not only local and national listings but swing album reviews too
www.gottaswing.com
Listing of events sponsored by Tom Koerner and Debra Sternberg
www.wsdc.org
Homepage of the Washington Swing Dance Committee
WASHINGTON
Seattle Area
NIGHTSPOTS
Century Ballroom
915 East Pine Street, Capitol Hill
206-324-7263
Beautiful classic ballroom offers swing nights on Mondays, Wednesdays, every other Friday, and some Saturdays
Club Rat Pack
The Aristocrats Club
220 Fourth Avenue South
206-748-9779
Swing meets lounge (with dress code) on Wednesdays
Fenix Club
315 Second Avenue South
206-467-1111
“Club HiDeHo,” Seattle’s original swing night, on Mondays
Seattle Center Saturday Night Big Band Dance
Center House, 305 Harrison Street
206-684-0765
Wednesdays all-ages dance; Saturdays lessons and dancing
Showbox
1426 First Avenue
206-628-3151
Call for details
Swingin’ Saturdays at the Savoy The Eagles Hall
5600 Twenty-Fourth Avenue NW
Ballard
206-784-4390
Live music, lessons, and dancing on Saturdays, with a huge dance floor
DANCE CLASSES
Dave Atkinson
www.daswingdance.com
206-782-3698
Ron Bolin
206-464-9500
Keith Hughes
206-547-2721
Living Traditions
206-781-1238
Savoy Swing Club
206-547-7676
Tanya Surface and Theo Davis
206-523-1221
WEB SITES
www.lindyhype.com
Guide pages for Seattle
http://students.washington.edu/swingkd/
University of Washington swing kids page
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/paul/sk/
Swing Seattle links page
www.eskimo.com/~savoy
Homepage of the Savoy Swing Club
www.bluelizard.com/csl/
DJ Leslie Price’s Cat Swingin’ Lounge guide to swing in Seattle, with great links
www.nwrain.net/~paralex/jk/
The guide pages for Tacoma
WISCONSIN
Madison
WEB SITE
www.blueroomrevue.com
Mad City Swing’s guide pages
Milwaukee
DANCE CLASSES
Jumpin’ Jive Club
Maureen Majeski
414-54-SWING
International
AUSTRALIA
WEB SITES
http://members.xoom.com/asds
The Australian Swing Dance Society’s countrywide listings
http://home.vicnet.au/~swing
Melbourne swing information
www.swingout.com.au
Sydney Lindy Hop page
CANADA
Montreal
NIGHTSPOTS
Blue Sax
7062 St-Laurent Boulevard
514-272-9990
Swing night every other Friday; fifties atmosphere
Jello Bar
151 Ontario East
514-285-2621
Mix of DJ and live music on Mondays, with free lessons; famous for their martinis
Lion d’Or
1676 Ontario East
514-526-6849
DJ and live music every third Friday of the month
Swing Ring
4848 St-Laurent Boulevard
Biggest dance floor in Montreal; Saturdays
Tokyo Bar
3709 St-Laurent Boulevard
514-842-6838
Mix of DJ and live music on Wednesdays
DANCE CLASSES
Kurt Hemmings and Cleo Binette
Swing Express Dance School
swingexpress@hotmail.com
514-285-4594
Hi-Ball
Sean Metcalf
smetcalf@total.net
514-851-2916
Miss Wolff’s Jiving School
www.jiving.com
514-CUB-CAVE
WEB SITES
www.swinginmontreal.com
Great-looking retro site on the Montreal scene
www.montrealswing.com
Information on Montreal Swing Dance Society … in French
www.swingexpress.com
Site run by Cleo Binette and Kurt Hemmings
Saskatchewan
WEB SITES
www.swingkids.com
www.angelfire.com/sk/hepcatz
Events in the Saskatoon area
Toronto
NIGHTSPOTS
The Palais Royale Ballroom
1601 Lake Shore Boulevard West
416-532-6210
Call for details
Reservoir Lounge
52 Wellington Street East
416-955-0887
Dinner, dancing, and live music Tuesday through Saturday
DANCE CLASSES
Peter Renzland
peter@dancing.org
http://da
ncing.org
416-323-1300
Martin Nantel and Jane Jedlovsky
aristocatsdance@yahoo.com
http://www.jedor.com/aristocats.html
416-208-3279
Lisa Jacobs
swing@interlog.com
http://www.interlog.com/~swing
416-693-0125
WEB SITES
http://dancing.org/toronto.swing.html
The city’s guide to upcoming events and local teachers
http://www.dancing.org/tsds/
Homepage of the Toronto Swing Dance Society
Vancouver
WEB SITE
www.bluelizard.com
The guide to dancing and bands in British Columbia
FRANCE
Paris
WEB SITES
www.danse-a-2.com/paris/
Guide, in English and French, to le jive à Paris
http://perso.cybercable.fr/bosset/
More swing, en Français
GERMANY
Munich
WEB SITES
www.swing.org
www.swinging-world.com/sww/
Guide to events in Munich
JAPAN
Tokyo
WEB SITE
www.impetus.ne.jp
Homepage of the Tokyo Swing Dance Society
NETHERLANDS
WEB SITE
www.jive55.nl/
Jive dance in the Netherlands
NEW ZEALAND
WEB SITE
http://members.tripod.com/~jitterbugs
Events and classes in and around Auckland
SINGAPORE
WEB SITE
www.jittersbugs.com/
Champion dancer Sing Lim’s “Jitterbugs Singapore” site
SWEDEN
WEB SITE
www.swedish-swing-society.a.se/
Homepage of the Swedish Swing Society (established in 1978)
SWITZERLAND
WEB SITES
www.swing.ch/
The Swiss Swing Dance Society’s site includes an international events listing
UNITED KINGDOM
London Area
NIGHTSPOTS
Hellzapoppin’ Club
Cecil Sharp House
2 Regent’s Park Road
Camden
0171-485-2206
Once a month on Saturday, 8:00 P.M. to midnight, DJ
Notre Dame Hall
6 Leicester Place
0171-734-4019
Jitterbug on Wednesdays, 7:30 to 11:30 P.M.; DJ and occasional live music
Saturday Night Fish Fry Windeyer Hall
46 Cleveland Street, near Telecom Tower
0171-359-2800 (LeJive hotline)
Swing dances, sponsored by LeJive, the second Saturday each month; “Zoot Suit Riot” lessons and dancing every Tuesday
Stompin’ at the 100 Club
100 Oxford Street
0171-636-0933
Live music and DJ on Mondays, run by the London Swing Dance Society
DANCE CLASSES
Robert Austin and Claire Hilliard
www.lejive.com
0171-359-2800
Jane Eliot and Martin Ellis
www.swingland.com
0171-357-6891
Ryan Francois and Jenny Thomas
www.zoots.demon.co.uk
0181-761-0843
Julie Oram
0181-809-5507
WEB SITES
www.swingland.com
Great Lindy Hop Web site covering classes, DJs, bands, and fashions
www.jivenet.org
“Modern jive” Web site for Jitterbugs, London’s Swing and Lindy Hop Club. Site includes Swing Time on-line magazine and complete listing of all swing events in London
www.lejive.com
Web site for Lejive’s many events throughout the United Kingdom
APPENDIX
Further Information
SWING WEB SITES
Swing rules on the Web. For the easiest entrée to the retro Internet world, just go to the Swing, Swing, Swing (In a Ring) Web site, www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=daddyo&list, which lists more than 240 swing sites. Here are some of the most popular individual pages for music, dance, fashion, news, and more.
General Sites
www.anyswinggoes.com
Any Swing Goes: Swing lover Doug LeClair manages this site, which includes articles, an interesting news library, album reviews, and MP3 files.
www.eswing.com
eSwing: Calendar of California swing events.
http://home.earthlink.net/~margiekate/swingspots.html
Southern California Lindy Society: Margie Cormier’s extensive information page includes band contact information, clothing resources, events in Southern California, fashion history, and more.
www.jitterbuzz.com
Lindy Week Review: Frank Morra and Carole Berghers’s Washington D.C.-based guide to the city’s swing scene, also reports on the Midwest and features extensive links and information on vintage shopping nationwide.
www.neoswing.com
neoSwing: Information on bands, style, and CDs, plus chat listings.
www.nocturne.com/swing
The Los Angeles Swing Times: Karen Wilson’s guide to the nightlife of Los Angeles, plus record reviews, links to swing radio shows, and hairdo tips.
www.pennsylvania65000.com
Pennsylvania 6-5000: An extensive international database, with listings of bands, vintage clothing sources, nightclubs, DJ top ten lists, and Swank Daddy, an on-line swing magazine.
www.retroactive.com
Retro: The Magazine of Classic Twentieth-Century Popular Culture: An on-line lifestyle magazine.
www.swingset.net
Swing Set: A very comprehensive on-line guide for events in California, New York, Las Vegas, and Chicago. Search for events by club or band; look at band links and the swinguistics guide.
Dance Sites
www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/aswin/SwingDancing/Swing_Dancing.html
The U.S. Swing Dance Server: This site features everything from articles on swing dancing to information on styles of dancing, how to do steps, and dance societies nationwide.
www.dancetv.com/tutorial/index.html
Ballroom Dance Group: On-line instruction in the basics of such dances as East Coast swing, the waltz, and the foxtrot, as well as video and CD sales and links to other dancing sites.
www.databasewebworks.com/swingdance
The National and New England Swing Dance Server: Features search options for finding swing events and teachers by state, as well as listings for champion swing dance teachers.
http://members.tripod.com/DeanCollins
The Hollywood Jitterbugs: This club of street dancers is dedicated to preserving Hollywood-style Lindy.
www.5-6-y-8.com
5678: The World of Social Dance: This site features articles, reviews, discussions, and event and club listings for those interested in all types of social dance, including swing.
www.halcyon.com/lindyhop/WLHF/wlhfa.html
World Lindy Hop Federation Archives: Features information on Australia, London, Canada; current events; bios on famous dancers; movies with swing dancing; book guides; even a list of Life magazine issues with dance articles.
www.mernyk.org/ross/swing.html
Ross Mernyk’s Swing Dance Steps: Features cheat sheet guides to the moves of swing.
www.raper.com/dance/swing/clubs/usaclubs.html
Raper’s Dance Corner: A great list of swing dance clubs and societies across the country, as well as information on music, film, and television events.
http://members.tripod.com/~socalswing
The Lindy Hop Preservation Society of America: This site includes an etiquette essay, Los Angeles club reviews, calendars, and other dance information.
Band Links
www.406hepcats.bukowski.com
406 Hepcats: This on-line zine includes an amazing band link
s page featuring more than 224 groups.
http://members.aol.com/AP21/
The Swinger’s Links: Connections to the best swing band Web sites.
Music Sales
www.amazon.com
Amazon: Surprisingly good selection of swing CDs.
www.driveentertainment.com
Drive Entertainment Online: A great place to buy the music of the original swing era, from Bunny Berrigan to Charlie Barnet.
www.hepcatrecords.com
Hepcat Records: The best source on-line for neoswing music and more.
http://swing-music.com
Swing-Music: Swing tunes, plus videos, CDs, and books.
Music Sites
www.angelfire.com/pa/Chipperjonesio/page6.html
Chipper’s Place: Features mpegs and wav files of music from new swing bands like the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, and Royal Crown Revue.
www.nfo.net
The BigBands Database: Features bios of hundreds of bands from the famous (Basie) to the not so famous (the Memo Bernabei Orchestra).
www.bigband-era.com/newsletter
Swingin’Down the Lane: A Web site dedicated to keeping the big band sound alive.