LIVE SALSA w/
MARACA & THE NEW COLLECTIVE
8:30p Lesson
9:30p-1:30a Dance
21+
$30 Adv
$35 Day Of
Lesson: $5, plus cover
Cuban flutist and composer & director of the group Maraca, Orlando Valle, is definitely a spectacle to see live, as he directs his highly talented 12-member group. Nominated for "Best Salsa Album of the year" for 2003, and winner of many awards in Cuba, Maraca is considered one of the most popular names in Latin and Afro-Cuban Music. Their music is a cocktail of fusion and energy that stems from the jazziest improvisations to the most danceable elements of Caribbean and popular Cuban music.
LIVE SWING w/
HAM CARSON
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-12:30a Dance
21+
$12
Ham Carson's group plays swing jazz which is a joy to hear and dance to. They improvise freely on the great tunes of the Swing Era: Basie, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington.
The regular players are: Buddy Catlett, Bass; Patti Patton, Drums; Casey McGill, Piano; Ham Carson, Clarinet, Saxophone. has been at the New Orleans Restaurant playing hot swing jazz for sixteen years.
3rd ANNUAL MASTERS OF LINDY HOP & TAP CLOSING DANCE
LIVE SWING w/
BRIA SKONBERG
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-12:30a Dance
All Ages
$15
At age 24, Bria Skonberg has been performing on stage for over 20 years. She has made appearances as a bandleader and guest artist all over North America, Europe, and Asia. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the CBC Jazz Award of Merit (2006), and the coveted Kobe Jazz Street Friendship Award, presented at the Breda Jazz Festival in 2007. Early in 2008 she was a guest on Riverwalk Jazz with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, representing the next generation of jazz . She is often a featured performer with Canadian icon Dal Richards and his Orchestra.
Bria currently resides in Vancouver where she graduated with a Degree in Jazz Performance from Capilano College in 2006. She co-leads and manages three jazz bands based in the Pacific Northwest: The Big Bang Jazz Band aka The 51st Eight, The Mighty Aphrodite Jazz Band and Bria's Hot Five. She is also a member of The Hoppin' Mad Orchestra, the Yukon based quintet New Orleans North, and is featured often with the Solomon Douglas Swingtet.
For the last five years she has been active as an advocate for upcoming musicians, working as a teacher and counselor at the Heebie Jeebies Youth Jazz Camp, Mammoth Lakes Youth Jazz Camp and the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society Youth Jazz Camp in the summer. She has begun programming, narrating and performing educational elementary school shows, and has given clinics at Sacramento State University and the University of Colorado pertaining to improvising and her experiences.
3rd ANNUAL MASTERS OF LINDY HOP & TAP
LIVE SWING w/
THE SOLOMON DOUGLAS SWINGTET
No Lesson Tonight
10:00p-1:00a Dance
21+
$20
Come early for the Masters' Exhibition and save on both!
The Solomon Douglas Swingtet's past gigs include the Atomic TOE (December 2002, Lindy Exchange in Toronto, Ontario), Swing Out Northwest (December 2002 and 2004, in Port Townsend, Washington), the Detroit Lindy Exchange (May, 2003), and the All-Balboa Weekend in Cleveland, Ohio (May, 2003). The bandleader is himself a swing dancer, which means that everything the band plays is directly focused on the dancers. Its repertoire is rooted in those of the Basie and Ellington bands, with other big-band standards and classic jazz tunes thrown in as well.
3rd ANNUAL MASTERS OF LINDY HOP & TAP
LIVE SWING w/
THE SOLOMON DOUGLAS SWINGTET
No Lesson Tonight
10:00p-1:00a Dance
21+
$20
Come early for the Masters' Exhibition and save on both!
The Solomon Douglas Swingtet's past gigs include the Atomic TOE (December 2002, Lindy Exchange in Toronto, Ontario), Swing Out Northwest (December 2002 and 2004, in Port Townsend, Washington), the Detroit Lindy Exchange (May, 2003), and the All-Balboa Weekend in Cleveland, Ohio (May, 2003). The bandleader is himself a swing dancer, which means that everything the band plays is directly focused on the dancers. Its repertoire is rooted in those of the Basie and Ellington bands, with other big-band standards and classic jazz tunes thrown in as well.
3rd ANNUAL MASTERS OF LINDY HOP & TAP OPENING DANCE
LIVE SWING w/
GLENN CRYTZER AND HIS RED HOT SYNCOPATORS
8:30p Lesson w/Chazz Young!
9:30p-12:30a Dance
21+
Dance: $12
Lesson & Dance: $32
An up and coming dancer-favorite in the Seattle area, Glenn Crytzer and his Red Hot Syncopators play dance music inspired by the great dance bands of the 20's, 30's and early 40's. Not much for self promotion, the band prefers to let their music speak for itself. One minute in the room with them, and you'll know that it was the right decision.
LIVE SWING w/
LOOSE MARBLES
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-12:30a Dance
All Ages
$12
Loose Marbles is a band out of New Orleans, but they're known to pop up all over the map. They've put together a special blend of instruments and attitudes, with a sound that recalls the early jazz from the clubs and streets of New Orleans. Featured vocalist with Loose Marbles is the amazing Meschiya Lake. No strangers to dancers, Loose Marbles brings energy to the dance floor that will keep you dancing.
LIVE SWING w/
LOOSE MARBLES
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-12:30a Dance
21+
$12
Loose Marbles is a band out of New Orleans, but they're known to pop up all over the map. They've put together a special blend of instruments and attitudes, with a sound that recalls the early jazz from the clubs and streets of New Orleans. Featured vocalist with Loose Marbles is the amazing Meschiya Lake. No strangers to dancers, Loose Marbles brings energy to the dance floor that will keep you dancing.
ALL AGES LIVE SWING w/
THE UPTOWN LOWDOWN JAZZ BAND
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-12:30a Dance
All Ages
Tickets only available through THE SEATTLE LINDY EXCHANGE - Have you registered yet?
Started in 1971 by Bert Barr, The Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band has performed continuously since that time now appearing at over 25 festivals and concerts annually throughout the United Stated and abroad. Major festivals include The Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, Sun Valley Swing & Dixie, The Great Connecticut Jazz Festival, San Diego Jazz Festival, Pismo Beach Jazz and America's Festival in Lacey, WA held over the 4th of July weekend. The full seven piece band has a worldwide reputation having performed in Japan, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Mexico and Canada.
LIVE SALSA w/
NEW SWING SEXTET
with DJ HENRY KNOWLES
8:30p Lesson
9:30p-1:30a Dance
21+
$25 Adv
$TBA Day Of
Lesson: $5, plus cover
A product of New York City and the excitement and turbulence of the sixties, the New Swing Sextet made its professional debut performing in the Singer Bowl at the last New York Worlds Fair in 1965. The band has been a popular and innovative exponent of Latin jazz, salsa and pop music for nearly four decades.
Composed of vocals, piano, vibes, bass and Latin percussion, the original New Swing broke up in the late seventies after successfully recording, touring and doing all the hot club dates that the New York metropolitan area had to offer. In recent years most of the groups core members have reunited and have been performing with Mambo Negro the highly popular Latin jazz ensemble, which performs regularly in and around the tri-state area. However, you can't buy or replace 40 years of history, and on special occasions the band performs as the New Swing. The New Swing offers an established and respected name with a sound from another era, which has been perfectly preserved and bottled for another generation to enjoy.
The band was part of a young crop (and new breed of aspiring Latin musicians) who grew up in the greater New York Metropolitan tri-state area with its rich ethnic mix and diverse inner-city culture, while at the same time growing up surrounded by the Latin music explosion happening in the region.
LIVE SALSA w/
LATIN EXPRESSION
8:30p Lesson
9:30p-1:30a Dance
21+
Dance: $13
Lesson & Dance: $18
Hot Salsa! The only way to describe Latin Expression is "phenomenal". This 12-piece orchestra creates a sound complimented by flashy styles and synchronized movements. The orchestra is driven by balancing four horns, a five piece rhythm and percussion section, followed by three vocalists. This is the premier Salsa band in all the Northwest. The orchestra's repertoire includes a unique variety of merengue, bolero, cumbia, Latin Jazz, and other rhythms and styles generally encompassed by the term "salsa". Also described as "Power Salsa".
Latin Expression has been playing all over the West Coast including British Columbia for over 15 years, and are now recognized as an experienced, enthusiastic compilation of professional musicians.
Photo: Scott Larson
LIVE SWING
THE SOLOMON DOUGLAS SWINGTET
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-12:30a Dance
All Ages
Lesson & Dance: $10
Solomon's bands (including the Solomon Douglas Swingtet, Back Pocket, Corner Pocket, and the Solomon Douglas Trio) have played at countless exchanges, camps, workshops, and other events in North America, Asia, and Australia since 2000. His experience as a swing dancer and dance instructor gives him an understanding unique among musicians of the music that swing dancers and blues dancers like to dance to!
His influences as a pianist include Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Gene Harris, Count Basie, and Thelonious Monk. His small groups (such as the Solomon Douglas Trio) play a mixture of musical styles including blues, old-school swing, and groovy mainstream swinging jazz with tinges of bop and soul-jazz.
The Solomon Douglas Swingtet is a ten-piece dance band whose repertoire is rooted in that of the Basie band (One O'Clock Jump, Jive at Five, Splanky, Shorty George, Shiny Stockings) and that of the Ellington band (Cottontail, "C" Jam Blues, Mood Indigo, Take The "A" Train), with other big-band standards and classic jazz tunes thrown in as well. They can cater to a crowd that prefers up-tempo classic swing (such as Seattle or Cleveland), to a crowd that prefers slower groovier jazz (such as Portland or Toronto), or to anything in between. The band makes frequent appearances at the Century Ballroom (Seattle, WA) and at the Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom (Washington, DC). Past Lindy Exchange and dance camp events that featured the Solomon Douglas Swingtet include the Virginia Beach Lindy Exchange, Jun. 2007; Swing Out Nowhere (Moscow, ID), Apr. 2007; the Sacramento Swing Jam, Aug. 2006; the Philadelphia Lindy Exchange, Jun. 2006; Camp Jitterbug (Seattle, WA), May 2006 and May 2007; the Portland Lindy Exchange, Mar. 2006; the Emerald City Blues Festival (Seattle), Oct. 2005; the Seattle Lindy Exchange, Aug. 2005; Swing Out Northwest (near Seattle), Dec. 2002, Dec. 2004, and Dec. 2006; the All-Balboa Weekend (Cleveland), May 2003; the Detroit Lindy Exchange, May 2003; and the Toronto Lindy Exchange, Oct. 2002. The Solomon Douglas Swingtet released its first CD in November 2006.
LIVE SALSA w/
TUMBAO
8:30p Lesson
9:30p-1:30a Dance
21+
Dance: $13
Lesson & Dance: $18
Tumbao is a six-piece band known in the Northwest for their joyful and energetic performances. A unique combination of musicians allows Tumbao to combine traditional-style Salsa with modern Timba and Latin jazz.
The artists who make up Tumbao are Julio Jauregui (piano), Dean Schmidt (bass), Thomas Marriott (trumpet), Jeff Busch (drums), Pedro Vargas (congas) and Carlos Cascante (vocal). Julio Jauregui started his music education at a very early age in Mexico City and completed a degree in music at Eugene, OR. Julio was responsible for all the arrangements on ëRecuerdosí. Dean Schmitt and Jeff Busch, both from Washington, are well-versed in a variety of music styles, including Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Samba, Calypso and Rock. This provides the band a wealth of musical options. Jeff Busch was also the percussionist on Jovino Santos Neto's album 'Canto do Rio' which was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2004. Pedro Vargas, the newest band member, grew up in Cuba and brings a rich Cuban influence to Tumbao. Pedro has toured the World and played with many great traditional Cuban artists, such as the stars of Buena Vista Social Club, Los Van Van, Sierra Maestra, etc. Thomas Marriott is a well known Jazz trumpet player who has already recorded four of his own CDís. He has also played with an impressive roster of jazz luminaries including trumpet god Maynard Ferguson, Rosemary Clooney, the Tito Puente Orchestra, and the Chico O'Farill Orchestra. Carlos Cascante leads the group with his deep love for the music. His large knowledge of all types of Latin rhythms combined with his creative improvisational talent make him one of the up-and-coming Soneros in the Latin scene. The music and performance of Tumbao ignites the audiences and inspires to dance.
LIVE SALSA w/
ORCHESTRA ZARABANDA
8:30p Lesson
9:30p-1:30a Dance
21+
Dance: $12
Lesson & Dance: $17
Zarabanda is a 12-piece charanga orchestra based in Seattle. They've been performing traditional and modern Cuban salsa, including son, cha-cha-cha, guaguanco and danzon, to Northwest audiences since 1994. In addition to originals, their repertoire draws from the music of Cachao, Buena Vista Social Club, Orquesta Aragon, Los Van Van, Benny More, Eliades Ochoa, Candido Fabre, Original de Manzanillo and many other great Cuban artists.
VOCALIST
LIZZ WRIGHT
7p General Admission
8p Show
$18 Adv / $20 Day Of
21+
For Dinner reservations, please contact the cafe at 206 320-8458
Lizz's CD was reviewed in the June 14, 2004, issue of THE SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER
On her 2003 debut, Salt, Lizz Wright was hailed by People Magazine as "one of the year's most promising new voices," a "smoky, simmering" talent, according to USA Today. Wright's album Dreaming Wide Awake finds that promise fulfilled.
Wright recorded "Dreaming" at Allaire Studios in Woodstock, NY, with Craig Street (Cassandra Wilson, k.d. lang) producing, and a deep well of New York talent contributing: guitarist Bill Frisell, Grammy-winning songwriter Jesse Harris, Mark Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius), Ollabelle organist Glenn Patscha, and Toshi Reagon among others.
Three of the eleven songs on "Dreaming" were written or co-written by Wright, proving that her "rapidly burgeoning writing talent" (LA Times) has now fully blossomed. From the deep-in-the-pocket, earthy soul of "Hit The Ground" (co-written with Jesse Harris and Toshi Reagon), to the buoyant Fender Rhodes groove of "Trouble," or the hazy, aching title track, each of Wright's original compositions casts an unforgettable spell.
Elsewhere she lends her "pitch-perfect, full-bodied voice" (NY Times) to a gorgeous, melancholic reading of Joe Henry's "Stop" (first popularized by Madonna on her Music album); turns Neil Young's "Old Man," into a dark cautionary tale; strips Ella Jenkins' "Wake Up Little Sparrow" down to a spare, zen-folk meditation; imparts the Aquarian anthem "Get Together" first popularized by the Youngbloods, with a new urgency; and recasts the Ric Marlow/Bobby Scott tune "A Taste of Honey" - best known as an early Beatles hit - as a haunting delta blues.
Lizz Wright was born in the small town of Hahira, GA. The second of three children, her father was a Holiness Church pastor, her mother the church organist. Wright grew up traveling the south, singing with her parents and siblings. She first came to national attention in 2002, when she played a series of tribute shows to the great Billie Holiday. Reviewing one of those shows, The LA Times proclaimed, with only a hint of hyperbole, "she walked on stage at the Hollywood Bowl a virtual unknown. Fifteen minutes later, she walked off a star."
Since then, Wright has toured the world growing her audience and meeting new fans. Don't miss a chance to see Lizz live...
SEATTLE BALBOA FESTIVAL
LIVE SWING w/
DAVE HOLO AND HIS HOLO TRAD BAND
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-12:30a Dance
All Ages
Lesson & Dance: $15
Holotradband, a high-energy hot jazz band from Seattle, Washington is a house afire. The blend of improvisation, riffs, and melody created by its front line soars over a blazing foundation laid down by one of the most spirited rhythm sections on the west coast.
The band draws its repertoire from the Golden Age of Early American Jazz. Legendary musicians and composers like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbeck, Sidney Bechet, Clarence and Spencer Williams ... and a legion of other talented composers and gifted performers ... created America's first original art form and gave it to a world in which it still thrives.
The musicians of Holotradband recognize the debt owed and the inspirations drawn from the originators of their art, but they profess no attempt to recreate the old recordings. Rather, modern influences on taste, technique, and perspective have guided this group to its own identifiable voice.
Holotradband makes the most of a traditional early jazz instrumentation to serve up this music with respect, appreciation, and more than a little panache. This band puts its own mark on everything it plays, but you'll likely agree "they could'a been there."
At HaLo:
SEATTLE BALBOA FESTIVAL
LIVE SWING w/
DAVE HOLO AND HIS HOLO TRAD BAND
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-1:30a Dance
All Ages
Lesson & Dance: $10
Come at 8:00 for:
"The diversity of Balboa and Bal-swing" with Dwight Lupardus
Holotradband, a high-energy hot jazz band from Seattle, Washington is a house afire. The blend of improvisation, riffs, and melody created by its front line soars over a blazing foundation laid down by one of the most spirited rhythm sections on the west coast.
The band draws its repertoire from the Golden Age of Early American Jazz. Legendary musicians and composers like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbeck, Sidney Bechet, Clarence and Spencer Williams ... and a legion of other talented composers and gifted performers ... created America's first original art form and gave it to a world in which it still thrives.
The musicians of Holotradband recognize the debt owed and the inspirations drawn from the originators of their art, but they profess no attempt to recreate the old recordings. Rather, modern influences on taste, technique, and perspective have guided this group to its own identifiable voice.
Holotradband makes the most of a traditional early jazz instrumentation to serve up this music with respect, appreciation, and more than a little panache. This band puts its own mark on everything it plays, but you'll likely agree "they could'a been there."
LIVE SALSA
SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-1:15a Dance
21+
Lesson & Dance: $35 Adv / $45 Day Of.
All advance sale tickets have been distributed. We hope to release additional tickets the night of the show.
MORE DETAILS
Since their arrival in 2000, Spanish Harlem Orchestra (SHO) has established itself as a standard bearer of contemporary Latin music. Directed by world-renowned pianist, arranger, and producer Oscar Hernández, the thirteen-member all-star ensemble has reintroduced the classic sounds of New York City Salsa to music lovers worldwide. United We Swing, SHO’s third album, is a stunning follow-up to their 2004 Grammy award-winning album Across 110th St., and their 2002 Grammy nominated debut, Un Gran Día En El Barrio.
“Our music style is the original sound of New York old school "Salsa dura" (heavy salsa) that was played in the early years by our pioneers,” says Oscar. “That sound has been lost and we want to keep it alive while educating the new generations (and music lovers in general) on the true musical roots of our culture.” Oscar adds, “we’ve brought back the essence of what makes this music great and are keeping the salsa spirit alive in our recordings and shows.”
Photo: Scott Larson
LIVE SWING
THE SOLOMON DOUGLAS SWINGTET
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-12:30a Dance
All Ages
Lesson & Dance: $10
Solomon's bands (including the Solomon Douglas Swingtet, Back Pocket, Corner Pocket, and the Solomon Douglas Trio) have played at countless exchanges, camps, workshops, and other events in North America, Asia, and Australia since 2000. His experience as a swing dancer and dance instructor gives him an understanding unique among musicians of the music that swing dancers and blues dancers like to dance to!
His influences as a pianist include Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Gene Harris, Count Basie, and Thelonious Monk. His small groups (such as the Solomon Douglas Trio) play a mixture of musical styles including blues, old-school swing, and groovy mainstream swinging jazz with tinges of bop and soul-jazz.
The Solomon Douglas Swingtet is a ten-piece dance band whose repertoire is rooted in that of the Basie band (One O'Clock Jump, Jive at Five, Splanky, Shorty George, Shiny Stockings) and that of the Ellington band (Cottontail, "C" Jam Blues, Mood Indigo, Take The "A" Train), with other big-band standards and classic jazz tunes thrown in as well. They can cater to a crowd that prefers up-tempo classic swing (such as Seattle or Cleveland), to a crowd that prefers slower groovier jazz (such as Portland or Toronto), or to anything in between. The band makes frequent appearances at the Century Ballroom (Seattle, WA) and at the Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom (Washington, DC). Past Lindy Exchange and dance camp events that featured the Solomon Douglas Swingtet include the Virginia Beach Lindy Exchange, Jun. 2007; Swing Out Nowhere (Moscow, ID), Apr. 2007; the Sacramento Swing Jam, Aug. 2006; the Philadelphia Lindy Exchange, Jun. 2006; Camp Jitterbug (Seattle, WA), May 2006 and May 2007; the Portland Lindy Exchange, Mar. 2006; the Emerald City Blues Festival (Seattle), Oct. 2005; the Seattle Lindy Exchange, Aug. 2005; Swing Out Northwest (near Seattle), Dec. 2002, Dec. 2004, and Dec. 2006; the All-Balboa Weekend (Cleveland), May 2003; the Detroit Lindy Exchange, May 2003; and the Toronto Lindy Exchange, Oct. 2002. The Solomon Douglas Swingtet released its first CD in November 2006.
LIVE SWING w/
PETE PETERSEN AND PORKPIE
9:00p Lesson
9:30p-12:30a Dance
All Ages
Lesson & Dance: $10
CD RELEASE PARTY!
It's 1930's Kansas City. Lester Young and Count Basie are at a jam session. The joint is jumpin' so hard even the squares are poppin their fingers. Suddenly, in walks Ben Webster, followed by Illinois Jacquet, Buck Clayton, and Coleman Hawkins, and they all make some music together. Porkpie recreates that energy, that swing, that wonderful vibe. Porkpie's strong, swinging groove and danceable sound is a favorite among the Pacific Northwest's dedicated community of swing dancers and lindy hoppers.