Social dancing is the heart of swing dancing. We aim to offer a wide variety of social dancing in and around Newcastle as well as opportunities to play and dance to live swing music
Monday Nights
21:00-22:30
£4 or included with lesson pricing
From 9pm at Summerhill Bowling Club every week, after classes. On the third Monday of every month we have live music, see below for more details
Sunday Swing Out!
13:00-17:00
Free!
From 1pm on a Sunday every other month at The Cluny, often with live music. Check Facebook for exact dates
We ♥ Live Music
Swing Tyne aims to support local Swing and Jazz musicians by patronising their gigs and providing them with new opportunities to play to an appreciative audience. We can often be found dancing to any of the band’s below.
Third Monday of each month at Summerhill Bowling Club from 9pm
We now have our own musical collective playing classic swing music specifically for swing dancers. Many members are swing dancers but we also have a variety of musicians from the local jazz scene join us. Led by the illustrious dancer/musician, Neil from House of the Black Gardenia, we hope to bring the dancing and jazz scenes in Newcastle closer together.
Anyone who is interested can join and play with us. We have members at all levels of experience and you can contribute as regularly or as irregularly as you like.
Speak to Neil, Owen or any of our members to learn more and join us.
House of the Black Gardenia
Born of the desire to get the city’s dancefloors swinging to the lesser-known roots music of the 1920s and ’30s, Tyneside nine-piece House of the Black Gardenia brings together the new generation of Newcastle’s jazz and swing scene for a raucous revival of old-fashioned good times, mixing up a heady brew of early jazz and blues rarities and authentic original compositions flavoured with the macabre and the mischievous.
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have been gleefully trampling over genre boundaries for over a decade now, chucking Western Swing, Blues, Country, Rock & Roll, Soul and more into their musical gumbo, but always sounding mostly just like themselves.
Based in Newcastle but hailing from across the UK, the Tea Pad have released four albums before their new The Party’s Over set, and toured across the British Isles and Europe, playing everywhere from Glastonbury and Cambridge Folk Festival to village halls and barns, and all points in between.
They’ve done support tours for big-name Americana outfits such as Pokey LaFarge, The Dead South, and Sierra Ferrell, released music on German label Migraine Records, appeared three times on Radio 4’s Loose Ends, and had their music played by everyone from Marc Riley to Huey Morgan.
Joining Rob Heron (vocals/guitar) are Tom Cronin (mandolin/harmonica/guitar), Ben Powling (saxophone/clarinet), Ted Harbot (double bass/electric bass) and Paul Archibald (drums).
The Front Porch Blues Band
Join the boys on the front porch for a laid-back, rootsy, take on blues, jazz, country, and soul. Their sound is laid-back and soulful but always looks to connect these varied styles back to their roots on the dance floor. Blues & Swing band made up of dancers, playing for dancers.
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