Man you guys are good! We figured we'd plan a nice, simple, quiet dance and you turned it into a thing. It didn't hurt that Marshal killed it laying down an awesome set. Big thanks to him for coming down, making the music happen, and not holding the service at the Steak and Shake against us.
But really, thanks to YOU. Normally we expect DJ dances to be a bit slower. This one wasn't! We had close to a hundred people there. We also had multiple other scenes represent including Nashville, Knoxville, Cookeville, Birmingham and that one guy from Austin who always comes. Overall, we couldn't have asked for a better dance.
And remember, our next dance is coming up FAST! (Feb 4th) It's a Sadie Hawkins Dance so it's the girl's job to ask the guys out onto the floor!
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And there's more that's happened in January other than the dance. For starters, we now have new bylaws. Big thanks to Amber, Briana, and the rest of the HSDS board for making them happen.
I've copied the below post from this blog post from Atlanta. The only change I've made is to remove the HotJam specific paragraph. Many of the below points are mirrored in the other DJ pages.
Recently we've been adding more actual content to the website. To this point, you've had to search for what you wanted to find. While that isn't bad, I'd like to make it a bit more structured. By following the links below, you should be able see what content is available without really having to search for it. It will start out with very little content, however, over time that will increase.
1. Something to play music
Normally, this a laptop or a mp3 player. If you are the only DJ at the event or your music is important to the event, you should bring not one but TWO backups. (Think two laptops and an mp3 player or a laptop, an mp3 player, and your phone loaded with some music.) Every DJ has had their equipment fail, almost always when they needed it most.
The swing dance community is built on DJs. The quality of a swing scene's DJs has a great influence on the quality of it's dancers. As with dancers, DJs come and go. While a lot of DJing simply requires practice, there is some information that can help DJs avoid basic mistakes. We'll break it down into four sections plus a fifth for tips below.
There is also a forum for DJs at swingdjs.com to exchange information on swing music.
It may have taken a whole weekend but May even topped the outstanding April Smith dance! What an incredibly mash-up of dancing. We started on Miss Tess at the Monkey, worked our way through JoHo, the Knights, Christa, a Barron, and landed on the mountain with Rob Murphy.
Man you guys are good! We figured we'd plan a nice, simple, quiet dance and you turned it into a thing. It didn't hurt that Marshal killed it laying down an awesome set. Big thanks to him for coming down, making the music happen, and not holding the service at the Steak and Shake against us.
You know, we normally expect the DJ dances to be a bit more low key. More so for a summer dance. More so for a dance not on our normal day
It may have taken a whole weekend but May even topped the outstanding April Smith dance! What an incredibly mash-up of dancing. We started on Miss Tess at the Monkey, worked our way through JoHo, the Knights, Christa, a Barron, and landed on the mountain with Rob Murphy.