6/20 - Final Thursday Night Stomp of the season w/ live music from The Rites of Swing (PSP Event)

6/22 - Clyde Bisbee & The Wheelhouse Revelers at Cadenza in Freeport

6/27-7/4 - Beantown Lindy Hop Camp

7/6 - Swing Night at The Dance Hall (Kittery) with Tongue in Cheek Band

7/11 - Spring Routine Review Workshop and Summer Swing Dance (PSP Event, details below)

7/13 - Norway Music and Arts Festival w/ King Memphis, Hadacol Bouncers and Portland Swing Project (Note: dancing surface might be pavement) 

7/19 - Congress Square Park Swing Dance w/ The Hadacol Bouncers (PSP Event, details below)

7/24-8/14 - Kittery All-Levels Wednesday Workshops and Practice Sessions w/ Lindy Maine (4 weeks)

7/27 - Swing Night at The Dance Hall (Kittery) with Clyde Bisbee & The Wheelhouse Revelers

8/16 - Congress Square Park Swing Dance w/ Imperial Hot Club (PSP Event, details below)

8/24 - Congress Square Park Social Dance Festival w/ The Rites of Swing (PSP Event, details below)

8/28-9/2 - Swingout New Hampshire Lindy Hop Camp

9/3 - Portland Swing Project Fall Classes Begin (PSP Event)

9/5 - Thursday Night Stomp Begins Again (PSP Event)

​9/7 - HenryFest at Skyline Farm in Yarmouth (Details TBD)

9/20 - Congress Square Park Swing Dance w/ Clyde Bisbee & the Wheelhouse Revelers (PSP Event, details below)

Salvage BBQ has swingable rockabilly (King Memphis) and jump blues (King Day's New Imperials) on 6/15, 7/20, 7/27, 8/17 and 8/31 

The Copacetic Collective Band plays live swing every Wednesday evening at 6pm June through September in Tommy's Park (corner of Middle St. and Exchange St.) Check their FB page for any weather cancellations. Surface is slightly rough but swingable! 
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July 11th Summer Swing Dance & Spring Routine Review

Come review the Spring Routine and stay for a swing dance!
All levels welcome for the lesson and dance at 7pm, no partner needed. 
When: Thursday 7/11
6pm Spring Routine Review for B and C-Level Students
​7pm Beginning Swing Lesson 
7:30-9:30 Music and Dancing
Where: Maine Ballroom Dance, 614 Congress St. Portland
Cost: $5 Spring Routine Review, $10 Beginning Lesson and Dance (cash/check)
Registration: ​None! Just show up. 
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Friday Swing Dances in Congress Square Park

Portland Swing Project and the Friends of Congress Park are teaming up for the fifth year to offer free Summer Swing Dances in the Park!
When: 3rd Fridays from 6-8pm (7/19, 8/16, 9/20)
Where: Congress Square Park is located at the crossroads of High Street and 
​Congress Street in Portland
Cost: Free!

July 19th – Hadacol Bouncers
The Hadacol Bouncers formed in the summer of 2013 for a Portland, Maine swing dance festival and never looked back. The group is a joint effort by co-band leaders Tom Whitehead (piano) and Peter Dunphy (banjo). Tom has a multi-style background in blues, New Orleans R&B and Bebop piano, and Peter has been playing New Orleans and Chicago style jazz since he was fourteen. When forming the group, Tom and Peter handpicked some of their favorite musicians from the Portland and Portsmouth jazz scene. 
The Hadacol Bouncers play the music of Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Louis Armstrong and more. The music is a fun hybrid of New Orleans Jazz, Chicago-style Jazz, novelty songs and other classics from the great American songbook. Hadacol has a traditional lineup of banjo/tenor guitar, piano, tuba, drums, trombone, soprano sax/clarinet and trumpet/cornet.The music is fresh and bright and great for dancing! www.hadacolbouncers.com

August 16th – Imperial Hot Club
Kris Day on bass, Steve Lynnworth on guitar and special guest Gabe Terracciano on violin. 

September 20th – Clyde Bisbee & The Wheelhouse Revelers
Clyde Bisbee and The Wheelhouse Revelers are a 6-piece, swing jazz & western swing dance band specializing in music from the golden era of jazz, the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s. While many modern groups playing this style of music are decidedly “New Orleans,” in flavor, Clyde and the Wheelhouse Revelers approach the genre from the more northerly and western reaches. Their sound, while eschewing any singular label, has more of a west coast swing/western swing feel. Greats such as Louis Armstrong, Bob Wills, Billie Holiday, Milton Brown, Hank Williams and Louis Prima, to name a few, are in heavy rotation at their performances. Besides swing jazz and western swing, a bit of 1940’s and early 50’s jump blues are on the menu as well as some original music in keeping with the era.
www.clydebisbee.com
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Congress Square Park Social Dance Festival
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Saturday August 24th: Swing Lesson and Dancing to The Rites of Swing 4:30-6pm
4:30-4:50 Lesson
4:50-6 Live Music and Dancing 
Full Festival Details here
Free!
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The Rites of Swing
This group is lead by vocalist, guitarist and pianist, Tom Whitehead. The ensemble also features Michael Arciero on guitar, Kris Day on upright bass, Don Whitney on drums and Nat Balch on clarinet. The sound evokes the smooth, acoustic feeling of Django Reinhardt’s gypsy jazz style, but with a distinctly American flavor of vocal standards from the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s.
Whitehead sings in a very mature, improvisatory style that is greatly complimented by Arciero’s dynamic and virtuosic lead guitar playing. Day and Whitney provide a seamless and effortless rhythmic foundation that swings hard, but is never overbearing. This group sails along like a Clipper Ship of a bygone era - smooth, elegant, powerful and a real joy to listen and dance to.