Limehouse de Reverie With The Cable Street Rag Band + Lindy Hop Dance Class
Dance Class from 7.15pm / Live Music from 8.30pm
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Entry Price: £12 (earlybird) / £15 / £8
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Live 1920s and ’30s jazz and swing with The Cable Street Rag Band, preceded by Week 1 of a beginners’ Lindy-Hop course taught by two excellent and experienced dancers, Serena Rizzo and Marcus Nutzinger.
Tickets: Dance Class / Dance Class + Concert / Concert Only
At Limehouse de Reverie Ewan Bleach performs with residents The Cable Street Rag Band. As the name suggests, they are a band that formed at the Cable Street studios in Limehouse who play Rags. But that is not all. This is a old-style jazz band that also plays blues, song-book foxtrots and swing numbers along with other dance music from around the world, including waltzes, beguines, tangos and the odd polkas, All of their repertoire dates from the 1850s-1940s. In 2018 the band released the brilliant ‘Dust’ LP.
The band features: Ewan Bleach on saxophones, clarinets and vocals / Lewis Taylor on trumpet and vocals / John Kelly on guitar / Joplin Parnell on piano and vocals / Joe Dessauer on drums
This beginners’ Lindy-Hop course will be taught by two excellent and experienced dancers, Serena Rizzo and Marcus Nutzinger. Lindy-Hop is a couple dance and the most famous and most widely danced of the swing dances. It is usually the place that people start before exploring the other forms. The class will take place from 7.15-8.15pm before the band starts at 8.30, playing three sets, followed by a jam finishing at 12.30am!
