Interview with Paul Cosentino

DCLX Interviews Paul Cosentino of the Boilermaker Jazz Band!

Abigail Browning had a chance to banter with Paul Cosentino, bandleader of the Boilermaker Jazz Band about the Washington DC Lindy Exchange this April 19-21, 2013.  The BMJB will be playing at DCLX this year with Craig Gildner’s Blue Crescent Syncopators and Bria Skonberg’s Hot Five—all on the same stage! Registration opens January 15, 2013.

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DCLX 2013 Dates Announced!

Flipping over DCLX 2013!

DCLX has relied upon a two party system for too long!  Our great nation of swing dancers is undergoing change.  Change that needs  new policy.  Change that needs something more, another party.  A  third candidate to throw her hat in the ring.  The very same ring on the very same night.

DCLX Saturday night- ONE stage THREE bands!  April 19-21, 2013  DCLX institutes a three party system with Craig Gildner’s Blue Crescent Syncopators, The Boilermaker Jazz Band, and Bria Skonberg’s Hot Five on the same stage. Registration opens January 15, 2013.

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Bitter Dose Combo at Glen Echo, October 20, 2012

Hello friends and come see your favorite local gypsy jazz band, the Bitter Dose Combo, play their inaugural dance at your favorite 1920s amusement park venue, the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo! What better way to celebrate October 20th, the 209th anniversary of the ratification of the Louisiana Purchase, than dancing to the sweet tunes of gypsy jazz? Free beginner swing lesson with paid admission to dance. The beginner lesson is at 8:00, and $15 lets you swing til midnight. Invite your dance friends, invite your dance enemies; invite your non-dance friends, invite your non-dance enemies. We guarantee everyone will like it. Brought to you by DCLX 2013!

Straight from the Bitter Dose Facebook page – “The Bitter Dose Combo is the only gypsy jazz band whose skinny ties are as tight as its rhythm. Based in Washington, DC, the Bitter Dose entertains at premier area restaurants and lavish cocktail parties, while also getting down and dirty at swing dances and gypsy weddings. Our guitars, accordion, clarinet and upright bass jump and jive with influences stretching from New Orleans to Paris and Brazil to Romania. We play traditional gypsy jazz, swing and straight-ahead, but we’ve also been known to sing some Gloria Gaynor.”

What?  Gloria Gaynor? Why yes!  Check them out from DCLX 2012!

Free beginner lesson: 8:00 – 9:00 pm
Dance: 9:00 – 12:00 am
Cost: $15

Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, Inc.
7300 MacArthur Blvd.
Glen Echo, MD 20812

Presented in cooperation with Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, Montgomery County, MD and the National Park Service.