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This week at Swing Tyne

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!

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Reminder: Christmas Social this Saturday with live band


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

https://swingtyne.dancecloud.com/dance/36643?

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This week at Swing Tyne

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.

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Tonight at Swing Tyne

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.

See you on the dance floor!

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This Week!

Tonight,

We have Shag lessons at St Matthew’s and Lindy lessons at Summerhill

As always, followed by social dancing at Summerhill!

Hope to see you all there!

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Live Music and Social Dancing this Sunday (20th) Evening

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!

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Coming up at Swing Tyne

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:

https://facebook.com/events/s/the-magpies-of-swing/7541615552607159/

Doors 7pm, Band from 8pm

Hoodoo Blues

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. 

With live music from Michael Woods 9-10pm

http://www.michaelwoodsmusic.com

At the Prohibition on Pink Lane.

https://www.facebook.com/share/Y8MbbSpZ4YAithc9/?mibextid=9l3rBW

And if you want to learn how to dance to country blues come along to their dance class on Wednesday: 

https://www.facebook.com/share/hxi55J3WjpedoSR4/?mibextid=9l3rBW

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Rev de Swing Returns!

Rev de Swing is back! After a summer break we have confirmed dates for:

Thursday October 10th
Thursday November 14th

Join us for a fantastic night of social dancing with Swing Tyne DJs downstairs in Rev De Cuba

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Tonight at Swing Tyne!

We are back with a bang for Balboa on Monday with Sarah and Graeme:
Newbies – intro to lollies
Improvers – lollies variations with quicks, slows , pauses and direction changes

For Lindyhop at Summerhill we have the final Solo Jazz class with the fabulous Niffi at 7:30 followed by Swing Out fundamentals at 8:20 and social dancing from 9-10:30pm. See you there!

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This week at Swing Tyne

Another busy week this week! Tonight at Summerhill we have a Solo Jazz class for Improvers alongside Shag at St Matthew’s and Beginners Lindy Hop as normal

There are still a few tickets left for our Collegiate Shag workshop with Lujo and Immy from Cambridge this Saturday. Don’t miss out!

https://swingtyne.dancecloud.com/dance/36217

Then in the evening on Saturday join us at Prohibition Cabaret Bar from 7pm for some fantastic live jazz from Lachlan (Magpies of Swing) and friends! Sure to be a great night