The 2011 Emerald City Blues Festival!
We're Adding a Master's Class!
That's right! Steven Mitchell is going to be teaching a masters jazz class on Friday afternoon. It'll be going at a blistering pace, but if you can keep up, I guarantee you that you'll enjoy it!
Come out and swing with the Syncopators live in Nashville as part of our East Coast Tour! We'll be joined by Solomon Douglas on piano as well as some more fantastic musicians!
Please tell everyone you know!
About the Syncopators:
Location:
French Quarter Cafe · (615) 227-3100 ·
823 Woodland Street ·
Nashville, Tennessee ·
Oh, and just to make sure everyone can enjoy it, we have two EXCELLENT teachers to do the beginner lesson. Huy Huynh and Danielle Knight will be holding one hell of a lesson to kick off one hell of a dance!
Location:
Flying Monkey Arts Center, Lowe Mill, 2211 Seminole Drive, Huntsville, AL
Cost:
$8 suggested donation, (If you can't, pay what you can. Buy a CD. We love you and want you there!)
TIMES Workshops: (Please arrive at 12:00 to get registered as we will be on a tight schedule)
Class descriptions 12:30pm-1:30pm Swingout Technology Swingouts are the basis for all human civilization. In this class, we will fine tune your swingouts. We will cure rickety your swingouts. We will cure rickety, inefficient and otherwise duct-taped-together swingouts so they become a thing of ease and beauty. together swingouts so they become a thing of ease and beauty
Location:
Global Education Center, (Workshop: Side Studio, Dance: Back Studio)
Thank you to everyone who came out for all of the wonderful Solomon dancing! Solomon taught an awesome workshop! With a Charleston, a blues and a (reverse) lindy lesson there was definitely something for everyone, both beginner and experienced.
Solomon Douglas is a jazz pianist and bandleader, whose various bands have played at more than fifty exchanges, camps, workshops, and other events in North America, Asia, and Australia in the past ten years. 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!
Update 8/15: The location and cost are updated so make sure you've got the most recent ones.
Solomon Douglas will be teaching an intermediate lindy hop workshop before entertaining us at the HSDS Dance. He's come all the way to Huntsville from Seattle so this is your best chance this year to get some west coast instruction! The workshop will focus on musicality and making the music happen in your dance. Solomon is a swing rockstar, as an artist, a musician, and a dancer. Come get some!
Location:
Flying Monkey Arts Center, Lowe Mill, 2211 Seminole Drive, Huntsville, AL
Solomon Douglas is BACK! Solomon plays everywhere and would normally be impossible for a small scene like us to get if he didn't love us so much! This is your chance to show that we love him too and appreciate him coming out of his way =). We're setting up a workshop with him so that everyone in Huntsville benefits from the swing dance secrets he brings us from his Seattle hometown as well as from around the world. And after the workshop he'll be anchoring one of the best dances of the year at the Flying Monkey! Believe it or not this is Solomon's first time at the Monkey and it's going to be incredible It's very rare for swing dance rockstars like Solomon to grace us so plan on coming out to show him your love!
On Friday, August 28 the SOLOMON DOUGLAS Trio from Seattle, Washington will be playing for the UAH Kick-Off Dance, starting our 2009-2010 school year off right!
Solomon Douglas is a jazz pianist and bandleader, whose various bands have played at more than fifty exchanges, camps, workshops, and other events in North America, Asia, and Australia in the past nine years. 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!
Location:
UAH Campus
University Center, Exhibit Hall
Huntsville, AL
Cost:
General - $10, UAH Dance Club Members - $5, UAH Students - Free!
Come out and swing with the Syncopators live in Nashville as part of our East Coast Tour! We'll be joined by Solomon Douglas on piano as well as some more fantastic musicians!
Do you like Solomon Douglas? We like Solomon Douglas. In fact, EVERYONE likes Solomon Douglas! Do you want Solomon Douglas in November? Yes. You. DO.
