Cumberland Shuffle

March 29th - 31st 2013

Price

Weekend passes 9 and dance passes available at the door. You can also pay for a single night's pass at the door! Friday night's dance will cost , and Saturday night's dance will cost .

Location Information - Avenue 2 - Ballroom & Social Dance Studio

Address: 817 2nd Avenue South, Nashville, TN
Parking: Street parking, limited lot parking available in front of/near studio

About

Cumberland Shuffle is a dance event dreamed up by the dynamic duo of Breanna Perry and Morgan Kestner. For the past five years, this event has brought together dancers for an invigorating weekend focused on the more vintage dances of the swing genre. We want to provide a fun environment for other dancers to be inspired by the rich roots of swing dancing, and a chance to delve into anything old-timey. Whether it's the history, the music, the old dances, the fashion, or other vintage cultural aspects, we want for dancers to be able to comfortably explore (and love) it all! Most of all, we want to give dancers a weekend full of all the aspects that drew us to dance in the first place: great music to move our feet, classes to challenge our minds, social dancing to stimulate our soul, and great people to do all these things with. All we want is to provide you with a dance event you won't soon forget; a one-of-a-kind time you look forward to again and again!

Weekend Schedule

Friday, March 29

8:30PM Doors open and Registration open
9:00PM Dance starts
10:00PM Low Down Sires begin
11:00PM Instructor Demo/Snowball (first band break)
3:00AM Dance ends


Saturday, March 30

All classes will run for 60 minutes with a 5-minute break in between. Please arrive on time! There will also be time for a lunch break and special vintage hairstyling tutorials by Emily Schuhmann!

11:30AM Registration Opens/Ballroom Opens
12:00PM Animal Dances
1:05PM St. Louis Shag I
2:05PM Lunch Break featuring hairstyling tutorials by Emily Schumann
3:45PM St. Louis Shag II
4:50PM Early Lindy Hop

9:00PM Doors open for the dance
10:00PM Low Down Sires start playing!
11:00PM Vintage Night Contestants Promenade (first band break)
12:00AM Show -- The Fevered Follies (a show in three acts)
1:00AM Vintage Night winners announced!
4:00AM Close venue (latest time)


Sunday, March 31

All classes will run for approximately 60 minutes with a 5-minute break in between. Please arrive on time!

Filming for the iCharleston Nashville project will be occurring during Sunday afternoon.
Jon Tigert and Andrew Rozario will have more details available at the event!

11:30AM Ballroom opens
12:00PM Peabody and One-Step
1:05PM Black Bottom
2:10PM Lunch Break
3:45PM Breakaway
4:50PM Super Class featuring all our instructors!

9:30PMish Honky Tonkin'! (Downtown Nashville)

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Addtional information -
http://www.cumberlandshuffle.org
http://www.nsdf.info/

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The Weekend's Music

Good music is KEY for good dancing! That's why we're bringing you a killer band to play your socks off. For those rare moments when we're not dancing to live music, we've secured a sought-after DJ to keep your feet moving. There will be jazz, sweet and hot, to delight your ears all weekend!
The Low-Down Sires (Asheville, NC)

the Low-Down Sires at Jack of the Wood, Asheville, NC
They wowed you as last year's surprise late-night jam band, so this year we're having them play TWO nights of music for you!

The Low-Down Sires are dedicated to the lost sounds of early jazz, inspired by the compositions and arrangements of Joe "King" Oliver, Edward "Kid" Ory, Jelly Roll Morton, and other giants from the storied origins of the art form. Their raucous style predates the smoother sounds of big band swing and the cynicism of modern jazz and transports you to the streets of New Orleans and the barrelhouses of early 20th century Mississippi river towns. Their performance style is at once hard hitting and intimate, fitting in easily well at bars, back-porches, swing dances, and street corners.
Rob Moreland (Raleigh, NC)

He kept you dancing all weekend long last year, so we brought him back--this year's Head Guy of the Only Recorded Music You'll Be Dancing To is Rob Moreland!

Rob Moreland has been DJing for lindy hop dancers since 2003, when he started a four year stretch of DJing every week at a local dance in Raleigh, NC. Since then, he has become a fixture of the Southeastern US Lindy Hop DJ scene. Aside from playing at regional events and exchanges across the southeastern US, he's DJed long-running nationally-known venues in LA (Lindy Groove), New York City (Frim Fram), Washington DC (Jam Cellar), and Denver (The Merc). He DJed at the Basie Centennial Ball in 2004 and has been a DJ and the DJ Coordinator or Head DJ for several years at Lindy Focus. This year he was the featured DJ for Rochester's infamous Stompology. He was also featured on Yehoodi Radio in March 2007. Rob is known for playing a wide range of tempos and styles, with music chosen to keep the floor full and the dancers happy.