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Yehoodi Video Talk Show: The Frankie 95 Episode!

Posted on June 23, 2009 by

Spuds & Rik recap the event of the decade: The Frankie 95 Birthday Festival in New York City. The guys share memories and video from this amazing event where over 2,000 lindy hoppers showed their love for our ambassador for Lindy Hop, Frankie Manning. Catch the show on Yehoodi or subscribe to the podcast. Get…

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Twitter as an Event Organizer’s Tool: Our Experience with the Frankie 95 Birthday Festival

Posted on June 1, 2009 by

About a month ago my friend David sent me an email asking about how we could use the micro-blogging service Twitter to help spread the word and coordinate a swing dance festival that we were helping organize.  We started brainstorming and decided to try it out.  As it turns out, Twitter is a pretty effective…

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Fantastic photos from Frankie 95 Festival on Getty Images

Posted on May 27, 2009 by

In all of the hubbub, I forgot to announce that the prestigious Getty Images stock photography service has put up several beautiful photos from the Frankie 95 Birthday Festival, mostly from the memorial service and the dance in Central Park on Friday, May 22.  Check out the entire set here. One of them has already…

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Frankie 95 Festival Day 5: Chazz dances for his dad, Battle of the bones, Big Apple Lindy Hoppers! We love you, Frankie!

Posted on May 26, 2009 by

Tonight was the final night of the Frankie 95 Birthday Festival, and what a lovely way to end an incredible five days of celebration!  Here's Chazz Young, Frankie Manning's son, dancing on behalf of his dad with 95 follows. Continuing the tradition started at Frankie's 80th birthday of having Frankie dance with one follower for…

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Everything Remains Raw: Moncel Durden on the links between lindy hop and hip hop dance

Posted on May 25, 2009 by

I managed to catch the film preview and talk with filmmaker / dancer / historian Moncel Durden about his work-in-progress "Everything Remains Raw: Hip-Hop's Folkloric Lineage."  Here Moncel talks the importance of dancers knowing the roots of the movements that they do.  As lindy hoppers, it was great to see how Moncel was able to…

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Frankie 95 Festival Day 4: Tribute Show, Campus Five, Boilermakers (video)

Posted on May 25, 2009 by

Here's a sweet video snippet: about 1,000 people at 4am still swinging hard at the close of Day Four of the Frankie 95 Birthday Festival. The highlight of the day was an all-star dance tribute show for Frankie Manning, demonstrating various parts of his career, from the Savoy Ballroom to the Herrang Dance Camp.  Afterwards,…

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Frankie 95 Festival Day 3: 3 big bands, Hellzapoppin finals, Silver Shadows (video)

Posted on May 24, 2009 by

The third day of the Frankie 95 Birthday Festival was jam-packed with classes and panel discussions all-day and dancing and performances all night.  The highlight of the evening was a blow-out big band concert not seen in modern times, with three swingin' big band orchestras performing in the Hammerstein Ballroom: the Frank Foster Loud Minority…

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Frankie 95 Festival Day 2: Frankie’s Memorial, Second Line procession, Central Park, Cangelosi Cards! (vids)

Posted on May 23, 2009 by

I finished my second day at the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival at 4am, exhausted but inspired by a full day of awesome dancing and loving tributes to Frankie.  I recorded some video snippets of the day, for those who want a flavor of what's going on: Swinging Reverends at the Frankie Manning Memorial Dawn…

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Frankie 95 Festival Day 1: Jazz Vipers, Hellzapoppin, Junior Jitterbugs! (video)

Posted on May 22, 2009 by

Here's a jam circle at the first dance party of the Frankie 95 Birthday Festival. With all of our guests not even here yet, it's already a blow-out, crazy-fun event. Day 1 highlights: a very moving documentary film about Frankie called "Frankie Manning: Never Stop Swinging." Norma Miller in an intimate Q&A about her life…

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Post of the Day: “Dance community really excited to spend five days in New York trying not to cry”

Posted on May 20, 2009 by

Gotta love this post on the Jam Cellar blog in DC about the Frankie 95 Festival start tomorrow: Dance community really excited to spend five days in New York trying not to cry. This weekend marks the event where dancers from around the world will come together in New York to celebrate the life of…

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