Our last class and live music social dance on the 16th was a roaring success – lovely dances, smiles, and delicious treats all around, and a marvellous performance by Magpies of Swing!
With your support, we managed to raise £235.06 for Crisis. From the Swing Tyne committee to you, our wonderful community, we would like to express our sincere gratitude for your generosity and continued support.
We had a great year of swing in 2024 – here is to another in 2025! Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, friends – see you all in January
Ho-ho-hop and Merry Shagmas! Put on your best festive attire and bring out your favourite cakes for the sharing table. Tomorrow, we will be sending off the year with our usual improvers and beginners schedule in lindy hop and collegiate shag, and finish the night social dancing to the wonderful Magpies of Swing. Best of all, we are making this a “pay as you feel” entry, and all of the proceeds from the evening will go to Crisis Homelessness Charity.
This is sure to be a fantastic Swing Tyne Monday filled with Christmas joy and lovely music. See you all on the dancefloor!
As Christmas approaches, join us for some of the last Swing Tyne classes of the year. We will be in Summerhill Bowling Club for improvers lindy hop at 7:30PM and beginners at 8:20PM; in St Matthew’s Church hall, we will have beginners balboa at 7:30PM and improvers at 8:20PM.
On the 16th, we will have the final session before breaking off for Winter holidays. In the spirit of giving this festive season, we will follow our annual tradition to donate all proceeds from the last week to Crisis Homelessness Charity. To make this easier, next Monday’s classes and social will be “pay as you feel”. We invite you to come along to connect with friends, have a dance, and contribute to the good cause. There will be a sharing table with cakes and bakes, so bring on your best mince pies and let’s have a boogie!
Hope everybody is recovered from the vigorous dancing on Saturday night, because we are back tomorrow with our usual lesson schedule!
In Summerhill Bowling Club, we will kick off with improvers lindy hop at 7:30 and then have our fundamentals class at 8:20. Meanwhile, over in St Matthew’s Church we will throw down with some collegiate shag – fundamentals at 7:30 and improvers at 8:20.
The after-class social dance will start at 9. See you on the dance floor!
For our Christmas social with the mighty House of the Black Gardenia at The John Marley Centre this weekend, there will be a CASH ONLY bar available on the night!
There will also be a food sharing table.
Tickets are still available here for £10 or on the door for £15
Join us tomorrow (Monday, the 25th of November) for fundamentals and improvers lindy hop in Summerhill Bowling Club, as well as fundamentals and improvers balboa classes in St Matthew’s Church! We will end the night with social dancing in Summerhill as usual.
Finally, our fabulous seasonal soirée is around the corner – remember to grab those last-minute Winter Ball tickets while sales last! This Saturday the 30th, we will have a night to remember dancing to live music by House of the Black Gardenia, listening to groovy sets by local swing DJs, and playing games. Check our Facebook page for event details and tickets.
Join us tonight for lindy hop and collegiate shag lessons, followed by social dancing to live music by our very own local swing jazz collective, Magpies of Swing!
Lesson and social prices are as usual. There will be a donation hat for the band – we encourage you to support the musicians if you are able to.
Join us and the Magpies of Swing for a great evening of music and social dancing with a fantastic line up of talent from across the Newcastle jazz scene. New songs, new faces and a good time guaranteed!
There will be space to dance and Swing Tyne DJs on decks the whole night in between live sets
You can buy tickets online for slightly cheaper or pay on the door, plus there’s a big discount for 25 s and under!
Live music and dance classes in Newcastle this coming week
This Monday we have our regular Lindy and Bal classes:
In Lindy intermediate’s Elise and Alec will be working on mastering dancing on a dynamic and busy floor, be ready for anything! Beginners will be the 2nd week of Charleston, suitable for all
Balboa will be taught by Graeme and Sarah. Fundamentals will focus on throw outs from lollies and Improvers will show some more dynamic throwouts
Magpies of Swing
There will be no Magpies live music next Monday, but that’s because there’ll be a whole extra night of live music on Sunday! Oct 20th at the Globe will be a great night of live music and social dancing with the Magpies and Swing Tyne DJs, get tickets for the event here:
Finally, our friends at Hoodoo Blues have some live music and lessons this week too. On Friday there will be live music from Michael Woods, a local solo acoustic Fingerpicking, Ragtime Bottleneck & Blues Guitarist based with four well received albums under his belt to date.
Doors open at 7:15pm, dance class 7:30pm – 8:30pm, followed by social dancing till midnight.
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