The next important cut off date for registration for the Winter Swing Festival is June 21 – if you’re planning on coming to the dinner-dance you MUST register by that date!  We need to pass final numbers onto the kitchen at that time.

You can still register and attend the dinner-dance after that date, but we CANNOT guarantee you a meal (and the cost to attend will still be the same).

Register now!  http://www.tasswing.com.au/winter-swing-festival-2019/

Class descriptions for the Winter Swing Festival workshops are now available!  You can check them out by heading to the “Running Sheet” section of the Winter Swing Festival website, or by simply clicking here.

Register now to avoid disappointment!

The Winter Swing Festival 2019 Website is now live!  You can check it out here, or at the link above!

It’s got all the information you need, and even better, registrations are NOW OPEN.

– June 28-30

– Dinner Dance at the Italian Club, 77 Federal St, North Hobart
– Big Band Orchestra at the Polish Hall, 20 New Town Road
– Workshops with interstate teachers, Shob and Andy at the Polish Hall (Saturday), and the South Hobart Badminton Centre (Sunday).
– Performances

Full weekend pass – $180
Individual workshop sessions – $70
Dinner-Dance – $45
Big Band Night – $40

The next Sweet, Sweet Swing is on Sunday, April 21 – Easter Sunday!  It’s going to be EGGSellent!  Hop along for two great hours of social dancing to fantastic DJs. Bunny ears and cotton tails will be rewarded! Then stick around for dinner afterwards (there was a massive crew last month!).  Cost is $10, or $5 if you’ve been dancing for three months or less (doesn’t include dinner).

See the Facebook event here.

Bal Club is back on March 28 at the Republic Bar and Cafe from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.
You get a one hour class with the amazing Shan and Tim, and then a half hour of social dancing to practice your skills!

Facebook link

Need some swing tunes to practice to? Then why not try out our Spotify Playlist?

Earlier this year three of our fabulous dancers, Michael, Ariadna an Liv led the iCharleston Hobart project and produced a fantastic video. We thought we should link it here so you can see it whenever you want!

VIDEO CREDITS
Recorded and edited by:
Toño Gomez

Song: “L.O.V.E.” by Nat King Cole
Performed by: “Les Coqs Incroyables”
Randal Muir (accordion and vocals), Dean Stevenson (double bass and lead vocals), Ralph Forehead (guitar and vocals)

Choreographed by: Olivia Bowman, Ariadna Martinez, Michael Laczko

Dancers: Olivia Bowman, Ariadna Martinez, Michael Laczko, Ted Ross, Tim Grimsey, Julie Janssens, Mana Inoue, Anica Boulanger-Mashberg, Phillippa Bricher, Jen Makin, Julie McInnes, Bridget Jenkins, Annie Squires, Jo-Anne Piggott-Broadby, Paul Broadby, Shan Deng, Elysia Chase, Helen McCausland, Geoff Parkinson, Shelley Norton, Christine Toyama

Teams:
*LindyMob* – Ted Ross, Elysia Chase, Alison Rose, Julianne O’Reilly-Wapstra, Dave Connell

*Moonlight Aviators* – Bibiana Devlin, Veronicka Devlin, Amanda Devlin, Kate Grieve, Bryce Lockhart-Gillett, Graeme Quinn

Ever wonder what would happen if members of TasSwing, Lindy Mob and the Moonlight Aviators ever got together? Well, check out these videos below to see a great performance of the Lindy Chorus for Frankie 100! (note the videos are the same, one of them is just in sepia, if you prefer that old time look…)

It’s been about ten years since we last had t-shirts for sale, but our fabulous graphic designer, Veronica Dixon, has been hard at work, and has come up with a t-shirt line for TasSwing!  You can see the options here, here, here and here.