News Archives 2000-2001

Thank you everyone for coming out to the Ultra-Lounge Party at Dave's Saturday Night. Some of you kids can really get drunk.

Our second annual Swing Semi Formal was a blast! Thank you everyone who came to Wallace Hall. The winners of our Jack & Jill dance contest were Tyson Chen and Julia Hale, by a slight margin. Well, you're all winners, really. Please contact the web manager if you want your photos on our site.

Thursday, April 5th 2001
Band plays from 8:30 to 12:00
Free lindy hop dance lesson at 7:30
Tickets: At the UBS Exchange, JDUC
    $10 for non QSC members
    $7 for members
Location: Wallace Hall, John Deutsch University Centre (JDUC)
Queen's University
Dance contests and door prizes!

Here's the lineup for the big night:
Tracey Wilkins - vocals
Chris Gale - saxophone
Marc Rogers - bass
Davide di Renzo - drums
Gordon Webster - piano

Gord managed to convince everybody to kick their regular gigs and come all the way over to Kingston just to play for us! This one-time appearance is surely not to be missed.

This is sure to be an awesome time as we've hired some of Toronto's finest jazz musicians to play for your dancing pleasure. There will be some refreshments available that night and of course we'll have a dance competition or two with prizes! There will also be a door prize for those not inclined to duke it out on the floor. If you want to see pictures from our last semi formal event go to http://qsc.20m.com/photos_pat.htm.

Jake and the Blue Midnights are going on this Saturday night in Ottawa. It's $10, starts at 10pm at the Jack Purcell Community Centre, 320 Elgin St. There is a lesson at 8:30.

The Ottawa folks are very friendly and have offered us spots to crash if we need it. We need to know if you can drive there Saturday night. We need people who can drive! Please reply no later than Friday afternoon at 6pm.

Workshop in Ottawa, Mon 19 Mar with with Damon and Ravitte from Boston - message from Nathalie of the OSDS

On 19 March (Monday) Damon and Ravitte from Boston will do a workshop at St-Giles church (corner of Bank and First). More details to come but we can already tell you that it will be from 6:30 to 10:30 or 7 to 10pm. The cost will be between $25 and $35. We'll have more information this week. Until then if you are interested let me know by sending an email to nathaliehetu@hotmail.com

Hey, if you've never been to the Ultra-Lounge before, we're having a big party here on a weekend some time this month. We'll be spinning some mad hip-hop joints and drinks will be flowin'. We have two bars, phat beats, and always the best looking brothers and sisters.

Time: Sat 3 Mar, 9:00pm
Place: My Place (email me or go to the dance to find out where that is)
Please drink responsibly!

The Queen's Swing Club is proud to present the first Swing Dance of the year! Jane and Dave will be teaching Lindy Hop at 9pm in the Robert Sutherland Room, 2nd floor JDUC. Music and dancing until you leave! Remember that this is your last week to receive a discount for the workshop! After that, the prices go up.

Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns tells the story of jazz ? the quintessential American art form. A 10-part series on WPBS Watertown (ch.16, cable 12) weeknights from 9:00 to 11:00, starting Monday 8 Jan.

The Queen's Swing Club is proud to present a Lindy Hop workshop with two of Toronto's best dancers and teachers, Solomon and Alana! The workshop will be held on Saturday, January 20, 2001 at Queen's University. You can register online.

The Kingston Jazz Society presents the GORDON WEBSTER QUARTETTE Sunday November 5th.

KJS members may recall the first time we all laid eyes on this fine looking young man: it was a Can-Am Festival, 22 or 23, when he mounted the stage and sat down at the piano and executed one stunning moment with Rita ? I can't recall the song but it was one of Rita's heart-stopping ballads ? and then bolted from the room to catch his train. "Who," we sat around marveling, "was that? And what do you have to do to get him back on the bandstand?" Well it turns out that he's been a semi-regular down here since then, playing at Indigo and in Gananoque from time to time. He's coming for the November session, November 5, with his brother Mike on tenor sax, Kevin Dempsey on drums and a bassist TBA. Gordon will play a number of selections from his recent CD threewe as well as a number of standards ? sounds like a dance-able evening of jazz.

The event will be at the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour Restaurant, 5:00-10:00pm, Sunday November 5th. The cost is $5.00 for students.

For more information on this event, go to http://www.webwoods.com/kjs/events.html

Wallace Hall, JDUC, Friday October 13th. Swing Dancing Lesson 7pm, Dance 8pm! Tickets available now at the UBS, $5 for members, $8 non-members.

Personnel

Spencer Evans, piano, clarinet and vocals
Ron Gilbertson, tenor sax
Chris Smirnios, drums
Bob Arlidge, bass
Cec Ross, guitar

Clubs Night starts Tuesday 4 October at 4:00pm! Check us out at Grant Hall! We'll be dancing and playing music all evening. Memberships are $8 and will be available Tuesday and Wednesday evening (at the Clubs Night repeat, before the dance).

Our next event is a Swing Dance at Wallace Hall, in the JDUC, Wednesday 4 October, starting at 8:00pm. The Lindy Hop dance lesson starts at 8:00 and music will be playing until you leave! Admission for non-members is $2, and members get in for free. Memberships are always available at the door if you missed Clubs Night.
See you there!

Unfortunately, the much-anticipated Band Nite has been delayed until shortly after Thanksgiving weekend. Spencer and his band will play for us in October, and we will keep you posted when more information is available.

Our next event of the year is a Swing Dance at Kingston Hall, in the Red Room, Friday 22 September, starting at 7:30pm. The Red Room can be found near the south entrance to Kingston Hall. You can find it at http://www.queensu.ca/tour/campus.html at building number 2. Admission for non-members is $2, and members get in for free. See you there!

It's been a pretty quiet summer in Kingston. I guess the boredom here makes one appreciate the club scene in Toronto that much more!

Looking at the calendar, we have less than a month until the big sidewalk sale. Last year's was so much fun ? we were dancing from nine (in the morning) to five! What impressed us the most was the number of people who came up to us and wanted to join the club. Truly an enjoyable time and we look forward to doing it again!

We also need some help in running the sidewalk sale event successfully. We will be advertising our first live band event of the school year (in Late September) as well as accepting memberships. If you want to help us out with the event, please send an email to our president.