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Midsummer Night Swing
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(Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park, Southwest corner of Lincoln Center Plaza at 62nd St btwn Columbus & Amsterdam Aves, New York, NY, 10023)(Lesson 6:30pm, Music 7:30pm)
Now in its 24th year, dance lessons are available for those in need of help with the steps. The series begins with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra doing a tribute to Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald and ends with the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra playing an evening of classic big-band swing. In between are concerts devoted to all manner of social dance: salsa, charanga, cumbia, boogaloo, cha-cha, forró, tango, foxtrot, Lindy Hop, swing and jitterbug. June 27; Meschiya Lake & Dem Little Big Horns, a New Orleans swing band, on June 29; Orquesta Broadway, the New York salsa and charanga group, on June 30; Crytzer’s Blue Rhythm Band on July 2; Johnny Colon & His Orchestra on July 3; Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie, a zydeco band, on July 6; JD McPherson, a rock ’n’ roll singer-songwriter, on July 7; the Mambo Legends Orchestra with special guests on July 10; the Cristian Zárete Sextet, a tango group from Argentina, on July 11; and the Losers Lounge, a collective devoted to funk and Motown music, on July 12.
($17 single concert - $160 full season)
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