Tien and I checked out the Careless Lovers in Kirkland (just outside of Seattle) for a weekday showing and took a couple of pictures and shot this impromptu vid: They were missing their trombone player but they were still super fun to dance to and really interacted with the audience throughout their sets. I’m sure…
You know what’s neat in VanCity? Neat jazz music at an even neater indie-hipster venue! On Wednesday, I stopped by Guilt & Co. and listened in on the Jen Hodge All Stars band in a venue that looks straight from prohibition-era Chicago. All that was missing was a bouncer in front asking for a password…
Sundays – Blues (Brouhaha), Lindy Hop vintage/fast swing night (Swing Connexion) Tuesdays – Swing (Le Petit Medley), West Coast Swing (Dance Conmigo) Wednesdays – Lindy Hop w. live music (Les Bobards) Thursdays – Lindy Hop (Le Rialto, once a month), West Coast Swing (Studio 88) Fridays – Lindy Hop (Cats Corner), Blues (some late nights…
If there is an important lesson that I learned this year from being a quasi dance organizer is to accept that shit will always hit the fan. Once you accept this fact, it really is quite endearing – like a really bad joke that you haven’t heard in while being used an exactly the right…
