Archive for August, 2015
Phil McGowan & The Easy Winners with guest vocalist Kellian Pletcher
Phil McGowan & the Easy Winners, BSC favorites, will join us at Extreme Dancesport for another high energy gig! With their New Orleans inspired hot jazz tunes, they will get you out onto the floor all night! The Easy Winners always get the crowd moving when they play for us and and this Friday will be no exception. Digging deep into their catalog of hits from the past, they’ll light fire to tunes like the 1921 Eddie Cantor hit: “Margie” and Louis Armstrong’s “You Rascal You”.
Joining the band is lindy hopper, rabblerouser and Boston’s own troublemaker, Kellian Pletcher. If you haven’t met Kellian before, you should because she wants to dance with you. But not while she’s singing because her feet get caught in the mic wires. Come cheer Kellian and the band on and as always, save a dance for her.
Here they are tearing it up with Boston Swing Central in 2012!
Lesson (included in the price of admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Swing Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:00am
General Admission: $15
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $13
Extreme Dancesport
26 New Street, Suite 3
Cambridge, MA 02138
Count Basie “Band” Night with DJ Katie Piselli
It’s Friday night and Count Basie is your band! As a celebration of one of the greatest American jazz band leaders of all time, BSC presents a Count Basie DJ Night, brought to you by hardcore Basie fan, DJ Katie Piselli.
Cari Meisel (“Band” Breaks)
Lesson (included w/ price of admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Swing Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:00am
General Admission: $10
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $8
Extreme Dancesport
26 New Street, Suite 3
Cambridge, MA 02138
Swingin’ on the Charles – Saturday Outdoor Dance!
Boston Swing Central and Community Boating are proud to present Swingin’ on the Charles, a night of dancing under the stars on the banks of the Charles River. This is another summer classic you won’t want to miss. We’ll take over the docks at sunset, provide a lesson for newcomers and then we’ll dance until 11 pm. *Note: Rain date is August 16th
(between the Hatch Shell and the Longfellow Bridge)
Boston, MA 02114
Dan Fox Foxtet with Amy Kucharik
The Foxtet is a six piece band led by trombonist Dan Fox and comprised of some of the best local musicians who have decades of combined experience playing for swing dancers. The Foxtet also features the lovely Amy Kucharik on vocals and ukulele. Fox has worked as a sideman at Boston Swing Central with Adrian Cunningham, The Lowdown Stompers, the Easy Winners and with Shawn Hershey. Expect a rock-solid beat and sweet, swinging horns playing tunes from the ’20’s and ’30’s at just the right tempos.
Joining Dan on vocals for this evening is Amy Kucharik, a singer-songwriter based in Somerville, MA known for sweet ukulele sounds and sassy lyrics, delivered with a voice and style that recall early jazz and blues performers. Amy has performed at swing dance venues in Somerville, Cambridge, and the greater Boston area as well as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Dallas and St. Louis.
Lesson (included w/ price of admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Swing Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:00am
General Admission: $15
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $13
Extreme Dancesport
26 New Street, Suite 3
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Swing Legacy
The Swing Legacy, a six piece “little big band” has been a fixture of the Boston swing dance scene since 1991 and BSC since the beginning, playing with a style informed by 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” for BSC!
https://youtu.be/EP8MnMiI-tA
Lesson (included w/ price of admission): 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Dancing: 9:00pm – 12:00am
General Admission: $15
Students and Seniors (with Valid ID): $13
Extreme Dancesport
26 New Street, Suite 3
Cambridge, MA 02138
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