The annual three-week Midsummer Night Swing in Lincoln Center winds up for the season tonight with this week with not one but two special dance events — a FREE family-friendly dance lesson and dancing for kids in the afternoon, and the traditional final Midsummer Night Swing band, the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra, playing Big Band favorites from the 30s and 40s. In Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center.
- For a full listing of free and cheap outdoor events and festivals in NYC this summer, check the NYC Summer Events Calendar page.
3:00 to 4:30pm — special FREE Kids’ Dance — with teacher Rodney Lopez from Dancing Classrooms – seen in Mad Hot Ballroom, the 2005 documentary about teaching ballroom dance in NYC public schools. He gets youngsters off on the right foot, teaching them the basics of ballroom, tango and swing.
7 p.m to 10 p.m. — Harlem Renaissance Orchestra: A Tribute to Illinois Jacquet — Jump to the classic, big band sound of the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra, formed more than twenty years ago to revive the great sounds from the big band era, including Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton. Take the A train, or the 1 train. The free dance lesson is at 6:30, and the dancing to live music begins at 7 p.m. The dance lesson — of course — is swing dancing. Tickets are $17. On the 14th there will also be the 4th Annual Ambassador’s Prize Dance Contest, honoring the late, great Frankie Manning, lindy hopper extraordinaire.
- For a full listing of free and cheap outdoor events and festivals in NYC this summer, check the NYC Summer Events Calendar page.
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