This #Weekend in Cape Town
Jazz Age Swing Party
Where: Shimmy
Beach Club - 12 South Arm Road, V&A Waterfront, 8005 Cape Town, Western
Cape
When: Sunday March 26th
at 8 PM - 2 AM
Tickets: http://mothercityhop.com/
Join us at Shimmy Beach Club for a jazzy shakedown like it's
1927! Dress in your glitzy 20s best, and prepare to charleston your socks off.
DJ 20th Century Fox will be spinning the best tunes from the Swing Era from her
epic vinyl collection.
Free entry!
This event is part of Mother City Hop 2017, an international
swing dance festival in Cape Town, South Africa. Full information about the
event is available on the website: mothercityhop.com.
THE GRANDDADDY OF SWING DANCES
The lindy hop, known as the granddaddy of swing dances,
developed alongside the swinging big band jazz sounds of the 1920s-40s, and
spread from the African American communities in Harlem, New York, throughout America
and further afield in the hey-day of the Swing Era. It is a vibrant social
dance, encouraging improvisation, musicality and fun. The music has its roots
in African rhythms, and came full circle to South Africa in the 1930s, with
Sophiatown becoming known as Little Harlem for its Savoy-style music and
dancing. A thriving lindy hop scene has been growing in Cape Town since 2012.
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