This Friday Boston Swing Central will serve up some more of our summer favorites. Just another good night of music from our DJs. Guest DJ is Alex Abdoulaev.

Another preview of what’s ahead this Fall, Oct 14th, we’ll have the Grand St Stompers back!

Lesson: 8pm to 9pm (included with admission)
Dancing: 9pm to 12 midnight
Admission: $10 (general), $8 (students and seniors with valid ID)
The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129

This Friday Boston Swing Central will bust out some more of our summer favorites. Nothing fancy, just a good night of music from our DJs.

And just a reminder that September is right around the corner…Dirty Water will soon be here featuring Gordon & Meschiya, get your weekend pass today….have a little preview here:

Lesson: 8pm to 9pm (included with admission)
Dancing: 9pm to 12 midnight
Admission: $10 (general), $8 (students and seniors with valid ID)
The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129

Swingin’ on the Charles is back! The dance is ON! We’ll be there at 7:00pm tonight, weather or not! Forecast says overcast, 70 degrees, 30% chance of rain, but we’re going for it. And rain doesn’t look likely until after midnight. We hope to see you there, tickets will be available at the door!

This is what Summer is all about! Dancing outside at sunset, on the banks of the River Charles. We Love that Dirty Water! This is one of the most magical nights of dancing that we have all year. It just doesn’t get any better than this. A summer classic and definitely a dance you’ll be thinking about next Winter when you’re driving down Storrow on a grey day.

It’s been a couple of years since we last danced on the docks of Community Boating and we are extremely excited to be back here!! You don’t want to miss this weekend (schedule your vacation for another weekend, we only do this once a year).

Community Boating has new docks since the last time we danced there, they’re smooth, level and have more square footage. So we’ll enjoy significantly better dancing conditions. This is going to be such a great night!

Lesson (included in the price of admission): 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Dancing: 8:00pm – 11:00pm
General Admission: $12
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $10
(Rain date is Aug 18th)

Community Boating (on the banks of the River Charles near the Hatch Shell)
21 David Mugar Way (Charles MGH T-Stop)
Boston, MA 02114

Validated Parking at Mass Eye & Ear is $5, please bring ticket to desk at CBI for validation.

Everybody loves summer and our summer is not complete without our annual Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest. It was quite a sight to see, everyone puckering up and spitting all at once on the back patio. Right out of a 1940s Life Magazine photo…or a Norman Rockwell painting or this…

This Friday Boston Swing Central will bust out some of our summer favorites including “Watermelon Man”. Game on…so practice up (if you are lucky enough to find a place that sells seeded watermelons, a feat unto itself in this day and age!) Or if you’re not game for seed spitting, just enjoy snacking on some of the seedless we’ll have available as well. It’s a summer celebration!

Lesson: 8pm to 9pm (included with admission)
Dancing: 9pm to 12 midnight
Admission: $10 (general), $8 (students and seniors with valid ID)
The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129

The Jazz Age was a golden age, the roaring 20s, prohibition, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. Boston Swing Central and the City of Boston recapture the spirit and energy with the Jazz Age Revival at Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park in the North End.

This dance is free, it’s outside, and it’s down near the Harbor. The evening starts with a free dance lesson at 6pm, so bring your friends who have not experienced dance. We encourage you dress up in some light summery vintage attire if you’ve got it…

After which Phil McGowan & the Easy Winners Jazz Band will start swingin’ their red hot jazz. The Easy Winners are a crowd favorite at Boston Swing Central’s dance hall.

Location: Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, North End right where Atlantic ave takes a 90 degree bend and (sort of turns in to Cross St). The park is on the blue line at the Aquarium stop.

Time: 6pm – 8pm (Lesson from 6:00-6:30pm)
Cost: FREE!

It’s going to be a Red Hot August night with our musical guests the Red Hook Ramblers. This band creates quite a ruckus and they’ve managed to tear the Whistle Stop down both times they’ve played. An annihilation of pure New Orleans-style energy.

We thought we’d invite them to make an August appearance and get this weekend really cooking…check them out here performing the St. Louis Blues at the Whistle Stop:

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

The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129

It’s a hot August Night and we welcome back the fantastic Downtown Julie Brown and the enigmatic Gina Helfrich to DJ for us. They’ll start off spinning swing tunes and sink into the soulful grove of motown and blues as the hours tick on. We’ll be recreating the feeling of those old summer night parties with the lights turned low, and the music drifting you into a sense of long summer night timelessness: all it’s going to take is our beautiful venue and two of our favorite New School Swing teachers cooking up amazing set lists from their mp3 collections.

Just say, “Downtown Julie Brown”..

Gina stands up!

Lesson: 8pm to 9pm (included with admission)
Dancing: 9pm to 12 midnight
Admission: $10 (general), $8 (students and seniors with valid ID)

The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129