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Swingmonkey is a volunteer-run, donation-supported website dedicated to promoting and spreading information about Lindy Hop and other forms of swing dancing, as well as maintaining a dance community throughout the Northeastern United States.
Swingmonkey posts news about swing dancing, maintains a calendar of events, and a lively discussion board about swing dancing!

Beantown Camp Music

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 23:03 — tonytye

Beantown Camp is coming up before you know it! We've highlighted the incredible teaching staff and vast array of classes and thought we'd turn to the music!

Four nights of live music will be starting off Friday with the Cangelosi Cards from NYC. We've been fortunate to have them in Boston and Providence, but this will be their first Beantown appearance! Their specialty is early American Jazz and will be sure to get everyone in the camp groove.

Memorial Sunday Swing Dance Pizza Party With Eight To The Bar

Tue, 05/25/2010 - 00:10 — luan1234567890

Leominster Elks ( Swingin Sunday's )
134 North Main St
Leominster MA 0453

May 30th
6pm Doors Open
6:30pm Beginner Friendly Group Swing Dance Lesson
7:30pm Eight to The Bar Pizza Party

Admission $12

Retirement of The Jam Board

Mon, 05/24/2010 - 13:35 — FoolsRun

Friends,
The Jam Board has been a part of the Northeast swing scene since 2001. Since that time it has connected, informed and helped dancers old and new find out what's going on in the scene. The Jam Board was created in a time before social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz had become the primary method of communication among friends and communities. Since the rise of these sites we've seen a steady and predictable decline in the board viewership and membership and we believe it's now time to close the doors on this forum and let these more capable media handle the task of linking the dance community together. The Jam Board will be permanently disabled on June 15th, 2010.

The rest of Swingmonkey.com, the news and calendar sections, will remain active, updated, and available. Only The Jam Board will be closing.

It has been our pleasure to bring this resource to you for the past 9 years. We look forward to the future of Swingmonkey as a resource in the dance community. We're always looking for enthusiastic people to join our team, so if you'd like to be involved with Swingmonkey as we look towards the future of Lindy hop resources on the web, contact us using this form.

Do you have a particular memory of the Jam Board you'd like to share before its retirement? Click here.

Superchief Trio Swingin Sundays

Tue, 05/04/2010 - 10:24 — luan1234567890

Leominster Elks
Dance2Swing
134 North Main St
Leominster Ma 01453

Sunday May 9th 2010

6pm Doors Open
6:30pm Beginner Friendly Group Swing Dance Lesson
7:30pm Superchief Trio

Come with or with-out a partner This is a really great way to meet new people.
This Swing Dance is drawing people from all over New England come early This band really Swings.Tonight we will have a full house.

Please Visit our 'home page and sign up to receive our weekly emails and receive advanced notice of all our events.Or great on line admission deals. http://www.dance2swing.com

Help us to help Kids and win this Pepsi Grant to teach swing at two Poughkeepsie High Schools.

Sat, 05/01/2010 - 13:12 — lindaf

YOU have an opportunity to help bring a swing dance program to two high schools in Poughkeepsie--one inner city school and one suburban school.

Hudson Valley Community Dance has submitted a Pepsi Grant proposal and we're gearing up to be among the top ten selected.

Winning the grant is a collective effort because it's based purely on popular vote.

The rules are simple: the proposals that receive the top 10 votes win.

Votes can be cast by the same person every day during the month.

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