After conducting a survey around our dance scene, it seems that our awesome DJs are not actually being paid to provide music for “for-profit” events with the exception of the Toronto Swing Dance Society. That’s crazy.
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Check out Jasper’s UT-Swing blog post about DJ’ing and training up newbies. This is something that is recently on my mind a lot so I’m glad to be throwing this re-blog up. This weekend UT-Swing hosted a DJ seminar to give some aspiring DJs a little head start and share some tips of the trade....
Last night, at the end of Yonge and Bloor Blues, after our last blues song we turned back on all the lights and I played a couple soul/motown songs to wrap up the night. The people who were still around and still wanted to dance got a chance to bust out the moves one more...
As I get more and more DJ’ing gigs slash opportunities, one of the things that I am working on this year is trying not to DJ with an agenda. I have embarrassingly caught myself sometimes in the mindset that I am some sort of music missionary trying to lead the heathens on a path to...