Tickets have now been released!
Swing Tyne would like to welcome you to our Inaugral Summer-Tyne Swing Festival, taking place in the heart of Newcastle Upon Tyne!
You can expect:
- 4 streams with amazing international teachers
- Taster classes
- 3 nights of social dancing with live bands
- And more to be announced!
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Our Lindy Hop Beginner’s Workshop is just two weeks away! Level up your dancing, consolidate the fundamentals, and get ready for Summer-Tyne Swing Festival 💃✨
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🗓️ Saturday 16th May
🕜 10.30am - 5.30pm
📍 St Matthew's Church Hall, Newcastle
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Hope you all enjoyed the Magpies of Swing performance on Monday and found yesterday's Lindy Hop workshop helpful!
Tomorrow, we're back to our usual Shag + Lindy Hop classes at the regular time and place. Details in the poster below. 👇
Summer is approaching! To help you plan out your holiday, check out our newsletter/website for upcoming events in and around Newcastle, links in bio. Our usual Monday classes will continue throughout the summer — keep an eye out for further announcements.
See you on the dance floor! 💃🕺
Have you been joining our Balboa Fundamental/Beginners block of classes recently? Then this is the perfect next step for you.
This workshop offers an intensive recap to strengthen your foundation — plus, we'll cover additional moves beyond regular class material.
Come build your confidence on the dance floor. 💃🕺
✨CLASS RECAP✨ Having fun with sugar push variations in Monday's Improver class with Hilary and @bobbicharleston 💃🏻👌🏻
The wonderful Hilary and @r.p.vin are teaching at our Lindy Hop Beginner's Workshop TOMORROW! Ticket link in bio 🔗
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Our Summer-Tyne Swing Festival brings you FOUR incredible live bands, including the fabulous Hot Club de Heaton 🎻🎶
Featuring some of the finest musicians from Newcastle’s gypsy jazz scene, this talented group channels the spirit of Django Reinhardt and the legendary Quintette du Hot Club de France — a firm favourite with Balboa dancers for their fast-paced vintage swing!
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ROSER & MARCOS IN ACTION 🎬✨
Based in Barcelona, this dazzling duo are swing royalty! They teach Lindy Hop locally, nationally, and internationally — and we’re absolutely thrilled they’re joining us at Summer-Tyne Swing!
Roser is a versatile and experienced dancer, constantly exploring rhythm and new ways of moving and expressing herself. Marcos is a rhythm dancer with a passion for tap, groove, and all kinds of jazz.
Here they are in the Strictly Lindy competition quarter-finals at @swimoutcostabrava 🙌
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One of FOUR live bands hitting the stage at Summer-Tyne Swing Festival… it’s the magnificent House of the Black Gardenia! 🎙️🎺💃
Get ready to party like it's 1929 🥳 The nine-piece band brings together Newcastle’s jazz and swing scene for a raucous revival of old-fashioned good times. Expect stride piano, ragtime banjo, Sousa bumps, blistering New Orleans-style horns, and infectious swing rhythms more potent than a bathtub full of gin!
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It’s a bank holiday and we are still dancing at Summerhill ( no at Matthew’s)
If its your 1st time then it’s free
doors open at 19.00
classes start at 19.30 /20.20 followed by social dancing at 21.00-22.30.
And remember it’s less than 2 weeks to our Lindy workshop so buy your tickets now
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FANCY & VASU IN ACTION 🎬✨ We’re so excited that this electric pairing is part of our stellar lineup of teachers at Summer-Tyne Swing Festival! Internationally recognised for their musicality and creativity, they’ll be guiding us through our shuffles in the Balboa stream💃
Check out their spotlight from the teacher presentation @vlcbalboafestival 🤩
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We have FOUR incredible live bands hitting the stage at our Summer-Tyne Swing Festival… including the sensational IKS Big Band 🎙️🎶
Travelling all the way from Rüsselsheim, Germany, this 17-piece orchestra has wowed audiences across Europe and the US. Their set blends timeless swing classics with modern arrangements, featuring iconic jazz standards from Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.
We can't wait for them to raise the roof at our Saturday-night swing spectacular! 🙌
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