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Hep Cat Swing present…
Swing Midwest - Spring Fever
May 5-8, 1999
Featuring Lavay Smith & her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
The evolution of Swing has come full circle. A
traveling group of dancers and their favorite band
touring the Midwest metropolitan areas. Enjoy one of
the finer moments of the Swing Era. The Swing Midwest –
Spring Fever event truly recreates the Lindy Hoppers
experience of the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s. This tour
features one of the hottest Swing ensembles of the 90’s
revival, Lavay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers.
“I love this band – they’re great”
- President Bill Clinton
“…pure class and a sense of humor…a time machine in vintage threads”
- Tom Hyslop, Blues Revue
“This CD is guaranteed to make you feel better”
- Dan Akroyd, House of Blues Radio Hour
If you’re hep to the jive with the Swing revival, don’t miss this
inaugural event. We’ve got Lavay Smith & her Red Hot Skillet
Lickers, The Blues Swingers, Jump Jive & Wail, The Senders,
traveling dancers are joining the scene, and a big money dance
contest, that’s right - $1,000 bucks! A two-day Lindy Hop
workshop featuring the top young stars from San Francisco Paul
Overton & Sharon Ashe*. Join the largest celebration honoring
America’s Folk dance and see who’s who and what’s hot in the
Swing scene in the Midwest.
The first leg of this tour kicks off at Liquid in Chicago Wednesday,
May 5th. The tour will jump down to St. Louis May 6th,
Minneapolis May 7th, and swings back into Chicago on Saturday
May 8th at the Aragon Ballroom. A dance contest with a $1,000
cash prize showcases the Aragon Ballroom event.
To qualify for the final, participants must compete in one of the
following cities
CHICAGO - Wednesday, May 5, 1999
Liquid – The Original House of Swing
1997 N. Clybourn
ST. LOUIS - Thursday, May 6, 1999
Casa Loma Ballroom
3354 Iowa – St. Louis
$12 advance ticket purchase price. $15 door cover
Call 314.664.8000 for advance ticket purchase.
MINNEAPOLIS - Friday, May 7, 1999
Medina Ballroom
500 Highway 55 – Minneapolis
with a special appearance by The Senders
$12.00 advance ticket purchase price. $14 door cover
Call 612.478.6661 for advance ticket purchase.
CHICAGO - Saturday, May 8, 1999
Aragon Ballroom*
1106 W. Lawrence Avenue
with a special appearance by The Blues Swingers and Jump, Jive & Wail
* proceeds for the Aragon show benefit Chicago’s Center Theater
Tickets will be available through Ticket Master and from Center
Theater’s box office
Please note:
? Special arrangements are being made for those who wish to travel with
us via Chartered bus
? Cost for the trip is $175.00 per person. This includes cost for
admission to all four shows, bus fare (fully equipped with washrooms)
and hotel accommodations (four to a room) at St. Louis and Minneapolis.
? A minimum of 40 passengers is required to reserve the bus – maximum is
49. Reservation deadline is April 30, 1999.
? We recommend making reservations in groups of 4. We’ll try to
accommodate those who cannot make such arrangements with other parties.
? Those who wish to make travel and hotel arrangements with us starting
at St. Louis or Minneapolis must do so by emailing us at
info@hepcatswing.com.
- Special tour hotel accommodation are available in Chicago from the
Hotel Allegro at a special rate of $139 per night.
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Important:
Remember, on Saturday, May 8th will be "Grand Central Swing
Station" by the Central High School Band Boosters. This will be at the
new
Multimodal Transportation Center (train station) in Champaign and
general
admission will have dancing from 9PM-1AM for $7. Featured are the 16
piece Mark Sheridan-Rabideau Big Band, which has former members of
the Ray Charles Orchestra, as well as people who have played with the
Dorseys, Stan Kenton, and Benny Goodman! Also there will be the
Virtues, a well-known jump-blues/swing band in the area, as well as the
Edison Middle School and Champaign Central Jazz bands. The proceeds
all go to the Central High School Band. Definitely something not to be
missed! They have a web page at
<http://www.prairienet.org/cpta/CentralHS/chsbandswing.html>.
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for more info, see:
http://come.to/cu-swing
http://www.prairienet.org/white-street
http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/dancing/