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.
Swing Tyne and Newcastle University Swing Society invite you to our end-of-year celebration in the beautiful Art Deco hall at Newcastle’s John Marley Centre.
Dancing, games, swingin’ DJ sets and LIVE music from House of the Black Gardenia
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.
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!
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!
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
Tomorrow at Swing Tyne, Solo September continues with another solo jazz class in Intermediates with the fabulous Niffi at 7:30pm. Lindy Hop beginners is then on from 8:20pm as normal
At St Matthew’s we have Balboa, starting with Beginners at 7:30pm
Then from 9pm it’s Social Dancing with live music from The Magpies of Swing!
A few tickets are still available for this fantastic workshop at the end of the month. Don’t miss out on the chance to take your Shag dancing to the next level with these great teachers from Cambridge!