It’s Labor Day weekend and school starts for a lot of people next Tuesday (or relatively soon). So come on out, get ready for an exciting new season of dancing at Boston Swing Central.

Dirty Water Lindy & Blues Exchange is coming up, along with a Fall Schedule that is packed with stars, Gordon Webster, Baby Soda, Emily Asher’s Garden Party, Grand St. Stompers, Phil McGowan, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra. Our calendar is packed!

Tonight will be djed by RetroMike and Alex Abdoulaev

Lesson (included with admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:00am
General Admission: $10
Students & Seniors: $8

The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129

Bandleader, Craig Ball brings his White Heat Swing Sextet to the Crosby Whistle Stop.  This smaller combo is a subset of the White Heat Swing Orchestra which will feature a banjo player this time out and they’re guaranteed to get things cookin’!

Lesson (included with admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:00am
General Admission: $15
Students & Seniors: $13

The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129

Shawn Hershey is a well-known Lindy Hop teacher and bandleader in the Boston scene and tonight, he’d like to introduce everyone to Shawn Mohney Quartet. Shawn met Jeremy Mohney at Lindy on the Rocks, a workshop weekend in Colorado where he sat in for a set on trumpet. Our good fortune has Jeremy and his band touring out our way and reuniting with Shawn for evening of hot jazz.

Here’s an easy breezy Summer tune for you.

Lesson (included with admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:00am
General Admission: $15
Students & Seniors: $13

The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129

Jan Marie is a superlative dancer, and an amazing singer. She made her Boston Swing Central debut this past March and her band was outstanding. For years she has performed as a singer/sideman with Shawn Hershey and Josh Fialkoff, but now she’s got her own band, the Mean Reds to back her up. And as a bandleader, her choice of material is as good as her singing and dancing. She does it all…

And, as an experienced dancer, she knows what we want more than we know what we want! We’re very excited for her to play the Whistle Stop again!

Here she is rockin’ “Slap that Bass”…

Lesson (included with admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:00am
General Admission: $15
Students & Seniors: $13

The Crosby Whistle Stop
24 Roland Street
Charlestown, MA 02129

Swingin’ on the Charles is back!

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 year’s most magical nights of dance. 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.

Tickets will be available at Community Boating tonight!

See you soon! 7PM is the start time!

You don’t want to miss this dance (schedule your vacation for another weekend, we only do this once a year).

Lesson (included in the price of admission): 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Dancing: 8:00pm – 11:00pm
General Admission: $15 (check out our website for advance tickets)
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $13
(Rain date is Aug 17th)

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 $7, please bring ticket to desk at CBI for validation.

The Swing Legacy, a six piece little big band has been a fixture of the Boston swing scene since 1991 and BSC since the beginning, playing with style and informed of the great big bands from the swing era. Their repertoire concentrates on classic big band swing music including many Duke Ellington and Count Basie numbers ideal for Lindy Hop and swing dancing. Much of their great catalog of songs showcases their phenomenal singer, Debby Larkin. It promises to be a night full of killer-diller arrangements that will keep you dancing all night long!

Here they are playing “Roll ’em Pete” at the Whistle Stop…

Lesson (included w/ 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