Archive for January, 2011
The Wonderful World of Color
Yes, it’s time to dress away the blah of white-washed Winter with some color…so we’re encouraging you to bust out a burst or a splash of color…reds and oranges to warm us up…guest DJs Tina Desorcy and Micki Balder will provide us with a soundtrack of full spectrum tunes.
Lesson (included in the price of admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:30am
General Admission: $10
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $8
The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
The p.m. Stompers
Don’t let the snow scare you away!
Come and dance the night away!
Ok. We admit, the opening line is a bit cheesy but we got your attention. Here’s the deal. It’s Friday! Yay! It’s another snowstorm. Boo! But the good news is that we’re still running the dance tonight and the p.m. Stompers are still planning to bring their high energy swing to the Whistle Stop.
Boston Swing Central welcomes another new band called The p.m. Stompers. The p.m. Stompers are an offshoot of Baby Soda formed by the drummer Phil McGowan (hence the p.m., but also a nod to the evening time and hence the lack of capitalization). Anyhow Phil has modelled his band on Count Basie’s late 1930s Kansas City Seven…He assures us it’s going to be “HOT”…and swinging! Can’t wait to see you there!!!
Lesson (included in the price of admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:30am
General Admission: $15
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $13
The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
Odessa Rose
Boston Swing Central kicks off our 2011 with a new band called Odessa Rose. Let’s dust off that winter chill this Friday, Texas-style with Odessa Rose…a Western Swing band. Just in case you don’t know what Western Swing is, don’t worry, it’s got nothing to do with West Coast Swing…it is the Texas interpretation of what Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Basically, cats like Spade Cooley and Bob Wills felt that if the Duke and the Count could swing, so could they. Except they had pedal steel guitars instead of large horn sections. And then they played hot jazz country-fried, and country songs hot jazz style and yee-haw, Western Swing as a genre of music was born.
So, we’re going to try this band out tonight and see how y’all like ’em. We heard a subset of Odessa Rose playing in a smaller combo at the brunch over at the Highland Kitchen and they made us want to get up and dance…and after talking to them, we found out that they had played for dancers before in Texas where some of them are from…so there you go…
Lesson (included in the price of admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:30am
General Admission: $15
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $13
The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129
