The Dance Floor and the Damrosch Park Bandshell are all ready for Midsummer Night Swing, starting next week! Check out more on the annual outdoor festival here at Lincoln Center, starting June 25.
Midsummer Night Swing at Ginny’s Supper Club tonight
Midsummer Night Swing kicks off in just over a week! Get in the spirit tonight at a pre-season event at Ginny’s Supper Club. Take a dance lesson and enjoy live music by the John Dokes Quintet, and DJ George Gee. The fun starts tonight at 7 p.m.
Midsummer Night Swing at 25: Kick off with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing Festival is celebrating its 25th year this summer, and kicks off in 10 days with a performance by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. This beautiful big band will bring back the glory of ballrooms past.
Midsummer Night Swing
June 25
Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
(Photo: Frank Stewart)
Get Your Swing Tickets!
It’s here! Tickets are now on sale for Lincoln Center’s 25th Anniversary Midsummer Night Swing festival! Join us as we turn Lincoln Center into one big open-air ballroom and dance the night away!
Check out the Midsummer Night Swing website for special deals and the complete summer schedule!
New York’s most fabulous outdoor dance party – Midsummer Night Swing ― marks its 25th Anniversary season this summer by inviting New York’s iconic dance bands to bring live music to Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park, taking place Tuesdays through Saturdays, June 25—July 13.
This summer’s celebration kicks off with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, playing big band classics by Duke Ellington and others, ideal for swinging the night away. Tickets and passes go on sale May 22. Visit the more website for more details.
Read the full press release to read about this summer’s swinging 25th Anniversary.
Get those dancing feet ready…
Who feels like dancing?
Check back here tomorrow when we announce the line-up for the 25th Anniversary Midsummer Night Swing Season, kicking off in July.
Larry Rohter of the New York Times calls forró music “something that sounds new and exotic but which you can still dance to in the old-fashioned way — close and tight.”
Join the forró “boomlet in New York” tonight in Damrosch Park at Midsummer Night Swing. Dance lesson starts at 6:30 and Mestres Do Forró Nordestino go on 7:30. It’ll be close and tight, and a lot of fun.
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Singing along? Tapping your foot? You might be team ‘King of Pop’, in the Losers Lounge’s musical face off: The King of Pop vs. Prince, tonight at Midsummer Night Swing. Dance lesson starts at 6:30 and the Losers Lounge goes on at 7:30.
Come see Damrosch Park transform into a musical tribute to the masters of Motown, soul, and pop! Don’t forget your velvet purple onesie or white glove for the costume contest. It’s as easy as A, B, C…
We are excited to announce Jeffrey Williams, winner of Bravo’s The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection season 2, as our judge for the costume contest tomorrow night at Midsummer Night Swing.
So break out your best and baddest King of Pop or Prince inspired attire and help the Losers Lounge celebrate these music legends. As Jeffrey says, “Great music is like wearing your favorite piece of clothing. Whether chic, sexy, or comfortable, it always makes you feel divinely at your highest!! Forever will Michael Jackson and Prince take me high and reign as fashion icons.”
Costume contest winners are awarded 2 Pepsi speed passes for both No Doubt and Karmin and Dragonette’s “Good Morning America“‘s Concerts in Central Park, 4 Tickets for the Yankees vs. Rangers game courtesy of Diet Pepsi, and a $50 Zabars gift certificate.
Time to start digging through your closet…
Loved JD McPherson at Midsummer Night Swing on Saturday? Find out his thoughts on New York City, Youtube, and even his tattoos…
