ANZAC Day this year falls on a Wednesday, however as our classes are all in the evening, we’ll be proceeding as usual – so see you at 6:30pm for Beginner Swingers, 7:30pm for Building Blocks, and 8:30pm for Hobart Hoppers!

The Winter Swing Festival website is LIVE! And registrations are OPEN!

All details here.

Winter Swing Festival 2018
– June 29 – July 1, 2018
– Workshops with Anthony and Sarah Wheaton from Melbourne
– Dinner-dance at the Italian Club, North Hobart
– Live Band night at the Polish Club, New Town

There will be early bird pricing until May 29, and after that, prices will go up!

Full weekend pass – $155 early bird ($170 later)
Individual workshop sessions – $55 early bird ($65 later)
Dinner-Dance – $40
Big Band Night – $40

Facebook Event

The next Sweet, Sweet Swing is on Sunday, April 22. Come and join us for some great social dancing, $10, or $5 if you’ve been dancing less than three months. Followed by dinner downstairs at 6:30pm. (pay for own meal).

Two hours of great social dancing to DJ music from 4:30-6:30pm at the Republic Bar and Cafe (upstairs).

Check out the Facebook event

Just a note that there will be no balboa class this coming Tuesday, February 27. Also, Barry is going on a well earned holiday from March 20 – May 1 (inclusive), so there will be no balboa classes at that time.

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.