Monday, July 2, 2007

Swing Kids at Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Swing Kids of Toronto




Performances
Celebrate the Arts @ St. Clair & Yonge


This festival site showcased Toronto's rich arts and cultural-entertainment scene featuring jazz, swing, big band, opera and orchestral music along with street theatre, dance and visual arts. Festival-goers visited Yonge & St. Clair for a truly unique and inspiring celebration of Toronto's vibrant arts community.
Articles:

Lindy nights with Toronto's hard-working Swing kids
BY C.J. O'CONNOR


Midnight crawled into the Hooch with the Shim-Sham and got shoved down the stairs on a torrent of Cab Calloway before any of the swing kids could notice. There was Joanna and Tyler and Sean by the bar; there was Danielle, a Jean Arthur dopplegänger under retro-bleached curls; there was Jessica kicking her saddle shoes into a sundae'd blur; there was Mandy and her sister Zoey, almost identically round-cheeked and fresh-complected as a 1926 Borax ad, and they had all come to Lindy Hop.


See rest of O'Connor's article here

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