SWING REMIX
virtual dance
BENEFIT for NAACP
FRIDAY JUNE 26, 2020
6:00PM EST – 8:00PM EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Location: ZOOM MEETING

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5:45PM ZOOM MEETING OPENS to PUBLIC
6:00PM INTRODUCTIONS
6:10PM DANCE WORKSHOP: Chester Whitmore (Lord of The Swing)
6:35PM DANCE DEMONSTRATION: Chester Whitmore & Special Guests TBA
6:45PM LIVE MUSIC: Queen Esther & Her Royal Quartet featuring John Dokes
7:15PM DEEJAY: Tomo Tanaka
7:30PM 
LIVE MUSIC: Queen Esther & Her Royal Quartet featuring John Dokes

Queen Esther & Her Royal Quartet — featuring John Dokes
Charles Goold, drums
Hilliard Greene, double bass
Patience Higgins, tenor sax
Sharp Radway, piano

From 1935 – 1939, as the rest of the world waltzed their way through The Great Depression or lindy hopped to big bands, Miss Holiday recorded over 120 sides with some of the best soloists of the decade, including Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, Roy Eldridge, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Cozy Cole, Jo Jones, Artie Shaw, Benny Morton and many, many more.

It was John Hammond – record producer, civil rights activist, music critic and aristocrat – who co-organized the very first “sing-swing” session in July 1935 with Teddy Wilson as bandleader when Miss Holiday was merely 20 years old. Armed with her new recording contract for Brunswick Records, their task was to record pop tunes in the new “swing” style for the burgeoning jukebox market. With Miss Holiday as instrumentalist on equal footing with the legendary musicians that accompanied her, what they created set the template for jazz vocalists, small combos and swing music, and created an immutable body of work. Queen Esther and Her Royal Quartet will present a few of these timeless classics for your listening and dancing pleasure.