Bria Skonberg brings her amazing Hot Five back to Boston Swing Central. And after the last time, we can safely say, this is a band that you never want to miss. They are hot jazz that will have you lindy hopping on air! The band tore it up, and we can’t wait for more!

Bria has spent a lot of time playing with Baby Soda, Glenn Cryzter’s Syncopators, and the Louis Armstrong Centennial Band. An accomplished trumpet player, she’s also an excellent singer, and a A-One band leader…we’re so glad she can assemble this kind of talent and bring her Hot Five back to BSC!

Check out her jaunty and jubilant playing in this video:

Lesson (included in the price of admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:30am
General Admission: $17
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $15

The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129

The Blue Vipers are back!   They’ve played for us a couple of times before, and we’re hoping they send March out like a Lion (well, figuratively speaking in this non-Winter sorta Winter).  Their unique brand of hot jazz which features some virtuosic washboard, pots and pans playing and their ready to tear it up this Friday night.  You might need to bring a towel and an extra shirt…because it’s going to be an evening on the up tempo side of things.  So for those of you who crave speed…this might be your night.  The rest of us will wait for their singer to croon a blue moon betwixt all the crazy jitterbuggin’ numbers…

The band often busks on the street in New York, and there are plenty of videos of them on YouTube swinging in Central Park, but here we find them at the Long Beach Public Library:

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

The Joint is Jumping! If Fats Waller could only sit at our 1901 Steinway like this…

Where is that Flux Capacitor when you need it? …but we’re actually really happy living in this period of time and having such a great dance space as the Crosby Whistle Stop and such a fun crowd of dancers to fill it every Friday night. And when someone like Gordon Webster sits behind our piano, well, he is our Fats Waller! Or maybe he’s our Count Basie (since he doesn’t sing), but anyhow you get the idea.

The talent that has graced the corner of our hall has been nothing less than astounding, we’re really in the midst of an exciting new jazz and swing renaissance. We hope you’re enjoying every minute of it! Boston Swing Central has managed to showcase the best swing bands in the region, if not the country and with a frequency that makes us one of the marquee dance scenes in the country. We look forward to every Friday night with anticipation…and we just wanted to take a moment to contemplate how lucky we are…

This Friday, we’ll be turning over the music to our fine DJs who will comb through their CDs and mp3s for the finest music from roughly 80 years of swing music! The joint will be jumping!

Lesson (included in the price of admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:00am
General Admission: $10
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $8

The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129

It’s already March, and this Winter has been more lamb than lion. But how will March greet us…either way, we know we’ll be dancing and having a grand ole time at the Crosby Whistle Stop!

Phil McGowan is back with his quintet. A band of hot players assembled by a sometimes drummer for Baby Soda, Gordon Webster & Beantown Swing Orchestra.

Phil’s quintet is centered around his electrifying drumming and some hot guitar playing…this is a concept he has slowly been evolving at the Crosby Whistle Stop. His endless enthusiasm for the music is infectious and translates into a band that you won’t want to miss!

And now for a musicology lesson:

Lesson (included in the price of admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:00am
General Admission: $15
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $13

The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129