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2008 HSDS Dance Schedule Overview

Below is a table of the dances for 2008:

2008 HSDS Dances
Dates Time Band Venue Price
* Part of a weekend of events with Lindy Hop workshop.
Sat Jan 26 2008 Lesson: 7PM Dance: 8PM-11PM Rocket City jazz Orchestra The Elks Club

so... everyone came.... :-)

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So, yeah. Attendance is incredible tonight. Go us. And when I say 'incredible', I mean EVERYONE. CAME.

HSDS dance for Relay for Life

HSDS is supporting the relay for life this year with a lesson and dancing! We'll be holding a beginner lesson for the first hour with open dancing following after. The Relay for Life is a life-changing event that helps communities across the globe celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease. It also helps raise funds for the American Cancer Society to help find a cure for cancer.

Location: 
Demo Area at the President's Tent · John Hunt Park · 2151 Airport Road Southwest · Huntsville, Alabama 35801
Cost: 
$5 suggested donation for the lesson

Jump, Jive & Swing

Jump, Jive & Swing! is Nashville's original evening of Big Band Swing, sponsored by The Nashville 20/30 Christian Swing Dance Group and proceeds benefit Youth for Truth, a ministry & mentor program for at-risk urban young people. Dances are usually twice monthly, with lessons included. For more info, call Steve Willis 294-4858, or email swwillis@bellsouth.net.

There will normally be one or two lessons from 7 to 8:30 followed by dancing until 11.

Event Date and Time: 
Repeats every month on January, February, March, April, May, September, October, November, December on the first Saturday and on the third Saturday until Fri May 31 2013 .
September 1, 2012 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm
September 15, 2012 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm
October 6, 2012 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm
October 20, 2012 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: 
Otter Creek's ballroom, 409 Franklin Road, Brentwood, TN.
Cost: 
$7 per person. (Discounted rate after 9:00 pm.)

Dancing at Bridge Street ft Brotha Ric

HSDS Presents a nice way to round out your Memorial Day Weekend Sunday. We'll be doing a joint thing with with Brotha Ric, our favorite authentic one man blues band. He'll be starting at 3:30. We'll be showing up en mass at 4:30, but nothing is keepin you from seein brotha ric a bit early! We'll dance to his original blues from 4:30 to 5:30.

At 5:30 we'll be switchin gears and pickin up some DJ'd music. Our great in-town DJs'll move you from 5:30 on through 7. We'll be at big square by maggie moo's. We'll have great music. We'll have great dancing. We'll have great DJs. And we will be blessed with the incredible brotha ric! What more could you ask for on a lazy Sunday afternoon!

Event Date and Time: 
May 27, 2012 - 4:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
Bridge Street @ the large square near Maggie Moo's · 340 The Bridge Street · Huntsville, AL 35806
Cost: 
Free! (Tip Brotha Ric!)

Funky Pirates Jazz Band at the Flying Monkey

Thats right! Back to back Pirates! Come and listen to some rip-roaring traditional jazz played by Huntsville's own Funky Pirates Jazz Band. 1920's attire is highly encouraged. Come check them out as they play the wild and raunchy music of early New Orleans!

B.Y.O.B.

Event Date and Time: 
May 26, 2012 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
Flying Monkey Arts Center Theater at Lowe Mill · 2211 Seminole Drive · Huntsville, AL
Cost: 
$10 general/$7 student

Funky Pirates Jazz Band At the Lowe Mill Dock

Come out to Lowe Mill for a free concert on the dock. Funky Pirates Jazz Band will be anchoring a great set. Good times will be had by all!

Event Date and Time: 
May 25, 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
The Dock at Lowe Mill · 2211 Seminole Drive · Huntsville, AL
Cost: 
Free!

USA Grand Nationals

Dancers turned event directors... Who would have thought?

Event Date and Time: 
May 24, 2012 - 2:00pm - May 27, 2012 - 11:59pm
Location: 
Multiple Venues, Atlanta, GA
Cost: 
$10-$135 depending on options

Camp Jitterbug

Started by Tonya Morris (Surface at the time), Camp Jitterbug began as a much smaller event called Jitterbug Weekend in May 2000 with Tip & Holly and Minn & Corina teaching in Ballard, WA. We had a great response and dancers were eager to start learning from nationally known dancers. We continued holding Jitterbug Weekends for many years every few months...these JBW's featured one or two couples.

Event Date and Time: 
May 25, 2012 - 7:00pm - May 28, 2012 - 5:30pm
Location: 
Multiple Venues, Seattle, WA
Cost: 
$25-$250 depending on options

BSD Triple Step East Coast Swing Lessons

Beginning Tuesday, May 1, BSD Instructors Pat Abbott-Cobb and Steve Tawbush will teach Triple Step East Coast Swing on Tuesdays in May.

Place: Vestavia Wald Lodge, Vestavia Hills Civic Center Complex, Merryvale Road, Vestavia 35216
Time: Beginner 6:30 - 7:30 pm/Intermediate 7:30 - 8:30 pm
Cost: $7 per person per class

No partner necessary, will rotate in class.

Event Date and Time: 
Repeats every week until Thu May 31 2012 .
May 22, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
May 29, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: 
Vestavia Wald Lodge · Vestavia Hills Civic Center Complex · 1969 Old Montgomery Hwy · Birmingham, AL 35216 (33.432847,-86.791863 on google)
Cost: 
$7
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