Of all the music I heard in New Orleans, my favorite memories and music come from Preservation Hall. Preservation Hall is a one-room venue, often with only standing room available, and well worth braving the heat, humidity, and lines to get in. The finest jazz musicians in the world play here, and walking through the [...]
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April 12th, 2011
Jazz from Preservation Hall
Posted in Music 
Tags: French Quarter, French Quarter Festival, jazz, Music, New Orleans, Preservation Hall 
No Comments »March 15th, 2011
Matthew Castillo – ATOMIC’s DJ-in-Residence
This week I’m pleased to introduce to you ATOMIC’s resident DJ, Matthew Castillo. Matthew has a passion and love for music and dance. Matthew started ballroom dancing in 1998, and soon found himself branching out into other dance mediums. “At the time, swing was king,” said Matthew, so he added swing to his dance repertoire.
September 1st, 2010
Swingin’ Into Soul
On September 4th dancers will be descending on Top Cats in Placentia for 1st Saturday Swing’s Swing and Soul Party. Nikki Marvin and Mikey Pedroza are going to show all you Lindy Hoppers how to take the dance moves that you already know and love so you can dance to the music of the ‘50s, [...]
August 13th, 2010
Enjoying Live Music
One of the many benefits of being a swing dancer in the southern California area is the abundance of live music. On a weekly basis, one can dance to live music at The Southland Strutters Ball on Wednesday and Disneyland on Saturday if they live near the Orange County area. Once in awhile there will [...]
July 9th, 2010
Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums
Friday July 2, ATOMIC dancers jumped and jived the night away to Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums. I caught up with Steve Lucky and Carmen Getit in between sets. On not being one of “the cool kids”: Steve Lucky’s musical career started with piano lessons. “At the time, playing the piano just wasn’t popular,” [...]
June 22nd, 2010
Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s New Album
As a swing dancer and musician I’m naturally a big fan of all things big band and jazz-related. I just downloaded a copy of “An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program” (Deluxe Version) off of Amazon and let me tell you – it was great. The album has a [...]
