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26/05/2024

Today we celebrate on the 110th birthday of legendary Lindy hopper Frankie Manning!

World Lindy Hop Day honors all the dancers and musicians who contributed to the creation, development, continuation, and proliferation of this vital African American dance, which was born and bred in Harlem, NY.

Although Frankie passed away in 2009, we celebrate World Lindy Hop Day on his birthday because he is revered for his vital role in the history of swing dancing and his spirit lives on in the hearts and feet of swing dancers around the world.

Today, let's celebrate Frankie and all those who influenced Lindy Hop!

25/05/2024

Happy Towel Day!

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10/03/2024

Imagine, if you can, a crowded bar and pizza joint. Half the place is taken up with a bar serving a whole wall of beer choices. A couple hundred people shouting, laughing, hollering, and generally having a good time.

Then, this disheveled-looking guy with a guitar makes his way to the stage. He's not much to look at. There is no band with him, no array of fancy instruments, just a guy and his guitar.

As he starts to sing, *everybody in the place goes dead silent.*

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10/03/2024

Today we lost one of the best Appalachian/Americana bluesmen I've ever known.

It is with a broken and heavy heart that I share the news that Malcolm Holcombe passed away today from repiratory failure. He has been in a great deal of pain for a long time, and his spirit is now free from all that and he is singing with the angels. Malcolm loved all of you so very much and was so grateful to have such loving and devoted family, friends and fans. Please keep me in your thoughts as I try to navigate life without my true love of the last 22 years. And thank you again for sticking with us through thick and thin. Love & blessings to all of you.

03/12/2022

Today we celebrate the "Queen of Swing," Happy Birthday Norma Miller! 🎂

17/09/2022

Today marks the 97th birthday of the late, great B.B. King.

B.B. helped popularize the electric blues and was its ultimate ambassador for more than 60 years.

"His indelible style – a throaty, throttling vocal howl paired with a ringing single-note vibrato sound played on his electric guitar named Lucille – defined the genre," said Patrick Doyle, Rolling Stone.

Happy birthday to B.B., whose music and impact is eternal.

Photo of B.B. King at Antone's in 1977 by Watt Casey.

26/05/2022

Today we celebrate on the 108th birthday of legendary Lindy hopper Frankie Manning!

World Lindy Hop Day honors all the dancers and musicians who contributed to the creation, development, continuation, and proliferation of this vital African American dance, which was born and bred in Harlem, NY.

Although Frankie passed away in 2009, we celebrate World Lindy Hop Day on his birthday because he is revered for his vital role in the history of swing dancing and his spirit lives on in the hearts and feet of swing dancers around the world.

Today, let's celebrate Frankie and all those who influenced Lindy Hop!

09/03/2022

Swing dancers in Kiev, Ukraine just a month and a half ago!
via: Frankie Manning - Lindy Hop

Charleston Follies PartyJanuary 22, 2022Kyiv, Ukraine

26/05/2021

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06/02/2021

La secuencia de Lindy Hop en Hellzapoppin' mejorada mediante inteligencia artificial.- La versión de 1080p en la que nos hemos basado (gracias a Atilio Menén...

29/12/2020

Anthony Fauci is a Lindy Hopper!
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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮? “That, before I got too busy, I used to love to dance, particularly with my wife. So, nobody knows that Tony Fauci really likes to dance, but I do. Just go back to the 50s and the 60s, 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨, and actually my wife is very good in Latin-American dances, you know mambo, tango, that kind of thing.”

Happy birthday!

02/12/2020

Happy Birthday, Norma!

19/11/2020

Once a vaccine is publicly available, and social dancing returns, what responsible requirements would you like dance organizers to put in place? (ie: proof of having taken the vaccine, or proof of antibodies, or just "hope for the best?")

13/11/2020

Ok, so I'm flat out having DT's from not DJ'ing for so long. Right now I 𝙎𝙊𝙊𝙊 want to play this song for a fusion dance...

Close your eyes, and put yourself on the dance floor, later in the night, and feel this song...

https://youtu.be/ulsLI029rH0

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29/10/2020

Son of a...

22/10/2020

Live from Elana's front yard during the height of the Covid era, a first performance with the Hot Club of Cowtown's newest member, Zack Sapunor, on upright b...

13/09/2020

TOMORROW I will sing AND play at the SAME time! Sunday, September 13 at 2pm ET / 11am PT, I'll play a special livestream performance on the Rootsy Music series "For the Sake of the Song" in Norway. Hope you can join us! Tune in at Rootsy Music. 📺🎶

28/06/2020

The Frankie Manning Foundation is happy to announce the new Lindy Hoppers of the African Diaspora Fund under the leadership of Tena Morales-Armstrong and Julia Loving.

This is a preliminary announcement. Details will be available on this page once planning has progressed -

https://www.frankiemanningfoundation.org/african-diaspora-fund/

24/04/2020

“The entire jazz ecosystem has been shut down, and the jazz community is devastated,” said the president of Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.

17/04/2020

Yep...bagpipes.

15/04/2020

Sunday April 19th, 4PM/EDT...

This Sunday April 19 at 4pm est, I'll be doing a FB home concert & you choose the songs! Send your song choice (1 only & not a cover song please) to :

[email protected]

Get your choice in by Saturday April 18 4pm est. We'll pick the 10 songs with the most votes (plus a few additional), and hope you can tune in on Sunday to hear them.

Keep on taking care of yourselves.

15/04/2020

Wednesday April 15th, 5pm/EDT 2pm/PDT.
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Me and my babies are going to make some music for you tomorrow! Join us right here on Facebook Live or on my Instagram at 5pm ET / 2pm PT for the latest edition of 'Live From The Attic'! As always, tell your friends and send requests... ⭐️🎶🎯

Me and my babies are going to make some music for you tomorrow! Join us right here on Facebook Live or on my Instagram at 5pm ET / 2pm PT for the latest edition of 'Live From The Attic'! As always, tell your friends and send requests... ⭐️🎶🎯

08/04/2020

Just going to be posting John Prine songs tonight.

Stay safe everyone. Social distance. Flatten the curve. Wash your hands.

08/04/2020

If you've ever heard me DJ blues for a dance, you've probably heard both Mr. John Prine songs, and this man right here, Mr. Darrel Scott singing many of them.