Limehouse de Reverie With The Cable Street Rag Band + Optional St Louis Shag 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 of a 4-week St Louis Shag class run by Pete Ayres of 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
What’s this – ‘St Louis Shag’ at Jamboree?!
Fun, fast, and easy to pick up, SLS 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 and slip another dance under your belt!
