Limehouse de Reverie With The Cable Street Rag Band + Optional Collegiate Shag Dance Class
Live Music from 8.30pm / Dance Class from 7.15 - 8.15pm
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Entry Price: £12 (earlybird) / £15 / £8
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Live 1920s and ’30s jazz and swing! The night begins with the third in a 4-week collegiate shag dance class run by Peter Ayres and Aila Floyd from Shag Pile, with live piano accompaniment from Ewan Bleach.
Dance class: Please contact us for participation details
At Limehouse de Reverie Ewan Bleach performs with residents The Cable Street Rag Band. As the name suggests, they are a band that formed at the Cable Street studios in Limehouse who play Rags. But that is not all. This is a old-style jazz band that also plays blues, song-book foxtrots and swing numbers along with other dance music from around the world, including waltzes, beguines, tangos and the odd polkas, All of their repertoire dates from the 1850s-1940s. In 2018 the band released the brilliant ‘Dust’ LP.
The band features: Ewan Bleach on saxophones, clarinets and vocals / Lewis Taylor on trumpet and vocals / John Kelly on guitar / Joplin Parnell on piano and vocals / Joe Dessauer on drums
Collegiate Shag Dance Class
Fun, fast, and easy to pick up, the collegiate shag dance is seeing a resurgence all over the Jitterbugging world. A little bit like Lindy Hop, a tiny bit like Charleston, quick to pick up and a dynamic and distinctive dance in its own right, join us at Jamboree and slip another dance under your belt!
In the taster session you can see what the collegiate Shag is about. We’ll cover the elements and give you enough for the social dance floor.
