This week at Blues Union

The Dirty Water Lindy and Blues Exchange is here, and Blues Union is co-hosting opening night! Note the venue and schedule changes below.

From 8-9pm Ruth Evelyn and Mike Grosser will be teaching an all-levels, beginner friendly Blues lesson.

General dancing will take place from 9 to midnight.

Plus, there’s live music! It’s the Boston debut of Miss Ida Blue. She’s a bawdy backroom New York City Blues singer who fronts a band that is a smoking red hot and swingin’ blues. The band features some musicians who are regulars in Woody Allen’s band and the Vince Giordano’s Boardwalk Empire band. And some of these players, you may have seen at the Whistle Stop before…New York City’s finest…and we’re not talking about the cops.

This is all taking place at The Crosby Whistle Stop, located at 24 Roland St in Charlestown.

If you’re registered for Dirty Water, this night is included. At the door the price is $15 general, $13 students and seniors.

Go to http://dirtywaterlindy.blogspot.com/ for all the details.

Ruth Evelyn and Mike Grosser have one more installment of showing us an awesome, modern style of Blues dance:

Drag Blues (7:30-8:30)
Learning Drag Blues has never been this much fun! Dynamically mold your body with your partners’ as you learn stylized Drag Blues walks, lunges and turns. This dance has style and a “wow” factor. We’ll also give you pivots, slides, skips, dips, and more to spice up your drag blues.

Blues Basics + Beginner Clinic (8:30-9:30)
This weekly drop-in class is designed for new-to-blues dancers or anyone wanting to focus on the fundamentals. It will provide enough moves to have fun on the dance floor, as well the opportunity to hone and polish the core techniques behind the dance. Each week, we’ll cover something new, so you can come every week, or just drop in for a class or few. This class includes the beginner clinic, where you can work on your dancing one-on-one with instructors and advanced dancers. This month it will be taught by Ruth Evelyn, Mike Grosser, and Sarah Elise.

Jonathan Pechon and Ruth Evelyn will be behind the DJ booth to keep you dancing all night.

As always, the lesson is $5 and the dance is an additional $5.

Join us as Ruth Evelyn and Mike Grosser show us more of a modern style of Blues:

Drag Blues (7:30-8:30)
Learning Drag Blues has never been this much fun! Dynamically mold your body with your partners’ as you learn stylized Drag Blues walks, lunges and turns. This dance has style and a “wow” factor. We’ll also give you pivots, slides, skips, dips, and more to spice up your drag blues.

Blues Basics + Beginner Clinic (8:30-9:30)
This weekly drop-in class is designed for new-to-blues dancers or anyone wanting to focus on the fundamentals. It will provide enough moves to have fun on the dance floor, as well the opportunity to hone and polish the core techniques behind the dance. Each week, we’ll cover something new, so you can come every week, or just drop in for a class or few. This class includes the beginner clinic, where you can work on your dancing one-on-one with instructors and advanced dancers. This month it will be taught by Ruth Evelyn, Mike Grosser, and Sarah Elise.

Julie Brown and Steve York will be behind the DJ booth to whet your Blues appetite.

As always, the lesson is $5 and the dance is an additional $5.

This month brings the return of Ruth Evelyn and Mike Grosser! They’ll be showing us an awesome, modern style of Blues:

Drag Blues (7:30-8:30)
Learning Drag Blues has never been this much fun! Dynamically mold your body with your partners’ as you learn stylized Drag Blues walks, lunges and turns. This dance has style and a “wow” factor. We’ll also give you pivots, slides, skips, dips, and more to spice up your drag blues.

Blues Basics + Beginner Clinic (8:30-9:30)
This weekly drop-in class is designed for new-to-blues dancers or anyone wanting to focus on the fundamentals. It will provide enough moves to have fun on the dance floor, as well the opportunity to hone and polish the core techniques behind the dance. Each week, we’ll cover something new, so you can come every week, or just drop in for a class or few. This class includes the beginner clinic, where you can work on your dancing one-on-one with instructors and advanced dancers. This month it will be taught by Ruth Evelyn, Mike Grosser, and Sarah Elise.

As always, the lesson is $5 and the dance is an additional $5.

Our fun with physics series has come to a close, so it’s time once again for a Clinic:

Blues Clinic (7:30-9:30)
The Blues Clinic is an opportunity to work one-on-one with our Blues Union instructors and to work with your friends and peers. Music plays in the background as people work together, and the instructors move around the room, working with people one-on-one or in couples. When not working with instructors, people work with peers, dance with each other, try new things they’re working on, or try things the instructors have helped them with. You can work on material from that month’s series class, workshops you took recently, or anything you like! From 8:30-9:00, we have our Blues Basics class as usual, while the clinic continues in the rest of the room.

Amy Kucharik will be behind the DJ booth to scratch your Blues itch all night.

As always, the Clinic is $5, and the dance an additional $5.