High-energy, fast-fingered, boogie-boy Pontus Olsson (Mr.Pam) introduces "Dr Bongo" Markowski, Johan "Boogie Base" Olsen and Karoline "Little Loud" Pettersson to Herräng. This heart-hammering quartet from Stockholm delivers bounce-including, piano-driven boogie, infused with a touch of Classic/New Orleans Jazz and Blues. Mr Pam with Friends will get them feet boppin' in syncopated delight. Additionally, Mr. Pam with Friends is honored to introduce The Birdettes to perform at Herräng with them for the first time. This trio of jazz-loving, hotsy-totsy dames are the cat's meow. Their a capella style reminiscent of The Andrew Sisters, will whisk you back to the 1940's. Karoline Pettersson, Carolin Frohm and Jenni Jeppsson stir up tight harmonies from the Golden Age of Jazz, immortalizing the music of jivers pastand present with a clear sense of humor. And now, let the pary begin!
4th of July. The Swedish flag will leave space for the flag of stripes and stars. Welcome to America! Have a doughnut or have 10, this is a day to celebrate. Parades and Fireworks. Watermelon-eating contests and baseball games. Get your family together and bring what you want to barbecue to the big bonfire. And as the night is getting young you can still here the humming…and the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave…. O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Frankie Manning was one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop and a true ambassador of the dance. Frankie travelled the world sharing the joy of swing dancing. He was a living bridge to the original roots of the dance that started in Harlem, New York. Mandi Gould, from the Frankie Manning Foundation, studied and taught with Frankie and will be sharing some of the inspiration and lessons she has learned from him. She'll take you through many of Frankie's favourite moves and sequences including some that you may not have seen before!
Founded two years ago, by Tamás Bényei, this band consists of members who all have their own professional bands. The quality of each musician in this band is incredible and we are very happy that we have the chance to have them all here on the same stage! Formed for the love of authentic swing music this all star formation of hungarian musicians really brings something special to the table, or better put, to the dance floor. Take the opportunity to listen and dance to this exquisite constellation!
Founded two years ago, by Tamás Bényei, this band consists of members who all have their own professional bands. The quality of each musician in this band is incredible and we are very happy that we have the chance to have them all here on the same stage! Formed for the love of authentic swing music this all star formation of hungarian musicians really brings something special to the table, or better put, to the dance floor. Take the opportunity to listen and dance to this exquisite constellation!
Slow drag, blues or just slow dancing - the synonyms may be a few but no matter what you want to call it this is the night of Billie Holiday’s crying hymns. It is slow, it is close and it is sensual. The night generally always starts with quiet entrance into the Ballroom, an elaborate show or performance, and a snowball dance to get you started. If you don’t dress up all other nights this is truly the night to put on your gown or suit and get ready for the bluesiest evening of the week. Casual dress is not permitted for these nights.
Hornsgatan Ramblers is a jazz band from Stockholm Sweden. Their main focus is set on rhythm and swing, from the more or less legal ballrooms of New York in the thirties and forties. With the bands' own adaptations and arrangements of the music of jazz giants such as Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and Charlie Christian, the Ramblers have developed a sound of their own. By now that unique sound has brought the band to countries such as Greece, Italy, Germany, Finland, Turkey, Lithuania, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, etc. And of course all over Sweden. The band was started in the autumn of 2009, when a few swing dancers in Stockholm decided to form a band and to start playing the music that they loved to dance to, to explore it further and reach a deeper understanding of it. The band name comes from a street in the neighbourhood in Stockholm where most members work and live, and where the world famous Chicago Swing Dance Studio is located – and in which the very first rehearsals took place. Several of the band members also dance in the renowned swing dance company Harlem Hot Shots and teach swing dancing, and have won and judged numerous dance contests all over the world.
Special visit from the great Natty Bo who will be singing together with the band for this special occasion! With more than 30 years of a musical career, this charismatic and extremely talented singer brings you a complete show. His performance on stage is interesting both musically and performing wise.
* Fredrik Dahlberg – trumpet/vocals
* Rikard Ekstrand – piano/guitar/vocals
* Anders Huss – double bass/vocals
* Emil Håkansson – trombone
* Sakarias Larsson – drums
* Christopher Mair – banjo/guitar/vocals
* Wilhelm Novák – clarinet/soprano saxophone
* Sebastian Svensson – tenor saxophone/vocals
Open air dance under many coloured lamps. Mosquitos, cotton candy and musicians pitching their instruments under a tree. A wheel of fortune spins in front of dreamy eyes. Arm wrestling, the bearded lady and a Swedish speaking donkey and sing-along with Thore Skogman and Lill-Babs
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Responsible for this week’s Tap Jam Sessions: Ron Freund
Gunhild Carling is a swedish Jazz and Swing star- plays the trombone, trumpet, a whole bunch of other instruments as well as sings and dances... Together with the Carling Big Band, which is a merge of the Carling Family and the Maritime Stompers from Malmö, they make you swing like never before! Although the style of the music is 30’s - 40’s big band swing, most of the music is newly written by the members of the band, mostly by: Hans Carling, Gunhild Carling and Erik Berndalen. Don’t miss the opportunity to dance to this outstanding big band, that will make you never wanna go to bed!
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Responsible for this week’s Tap Jam Sessions: Ron Freund
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Responsible for this week’s Tap Jam Sessions: Ron Freund
Slow drag, blues or just slow dancing - the synonyms may be a few but no matter what you want to call it this is the night of Billie Holiday’s crying hymns. It is slow, it is close and it is sensual. The night generally always starts with quiet entrance into the Ballroom, an elaborate show or performance, and a snowball dance to get you started. If you don’t dress up all other nights this is truly the night to put on your gown or suit and get ready for the bluesiest evening of the week. Casual dress is not permitted for these nights.
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Responsible for this week’s Tap Jam Sessions: Ron Freund
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Responsible for this week’s Tap Jam Sessions: Ron Freund
If you usually are a very happy person you might need a course in anger management for this evening. If you usually love classical music you can get to explore the inner soul of heavy metal. Birds becomes elephants. Night becomes day. Beauty becomes beast. Anything is possible, it is only your imagination that is your limit. Who are you? And what is the total opposite of that? That is what you are going to personalize for one evening.
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Responsible for this week’s Tap Jam Sessions: Jonas Nermyr
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Responsible for this week’s Tap Jam Sessions: Jonas Nermyr
The Hot Sugar Band is a real swingin time machine. One that takes you right back to the 1930′s ballrooms of Harlem, straight in to the golden age of Jazz. Don’t let their young faces fool you, despite their young age they’ve captured the real spirit of jazz and their motto is to swing it and to make everybody around swing with them. With genial arrangements they bring classics with Fats Waller, Count Basie, Fletcher Wallen and Django Reinhardt back to life for the audience to enjoy. The word fantastic is an understatement for this great swing band!
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Responsible for this week’s Tap Jam Sessions: Jonas Nermyr
Slow drag, blues or just slow dancing - the synonyms may be a few but no matter what you want to call it this is the night of Billie Holiday’s crying hymns. It is slow, it is close and it is sensual. The night generally always starts with quiet entrance into the Ballroom, an elaborate show or performance, and a snowball dance to get you started. If you don’t dress up all other nights this is truly the night to put on your gown or suit and get ready for the bluesiest evening of the week. Casual dress is not permitted for these nights.
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Responsible for this week’s Tap Jam Sessions: Jonas Nermyr
The Hot Sugar Band is a real swingin time machine. One that takes you right back to the 1930′s ballrooms of Harlem, straight in to the golden age of Jazz. Don’t let their young faces fool you, despite their young age they’ve captured the real spirit of jazz and their motto is to swing it and to make everybody around swing with them. With genial arrangements they bring classics with Fats Waller, Count Basie, Fletcher Wallen and Django Reinhardt back to life for the audience to enjoy. The word fantastic is an understatement for this great swing band!
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Responsible for this week’s Tap Jam Sessions: Jonas Nermyr
Watch out! A gigantic plate is coming closer and closer and closer… Landing in Herräng! Suddenly all dancers are gone and Folkets Hus is invaded by very different looking creatures. The air feels a bit lighter, feet are leaving ground for a second or two and everything is very very different.
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Since the conception in 2002, The Stockholm Swing All Stars have had great success touring all over Scandinavia, playing in concert halls, at jazz festivals and in clubs. The tailor-made arrangements highlight the various members' personalities. The music is full of energy and swing, sometimes virtuosic, sometimes quietly beautiful. Challenging, yet inviting.
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Since the conception in 2002, The Stockholm Swing All Stars have had great success touring all over Scandinavia, playing in concert halls, at jazz festivals and in clubs. The tailor-made arrangements highlight the various members' personalities. The music is full of energy and swing, sometimes virtuosic, sometimes quietly beautiful. Challenging, yet inviting.
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
Slow drag, blues or just slow dancing - the synonyms may be a few but no matter what you want to call it this is the night of Billie Holiday’s crying hymns. It is slow, it is close and it is sensual. The night generally always starts with quiet entrance into the Ballroom, an elaborate show or performance, and a snowball dance to get you started. If you don’t dress up all other nights this is truly the night to put on your gown or suit and get ready for the bluesiest evening of the week. Casual dress is not permitted for these nights.
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
As a recurring event in Herräng, the Tap Jams are usually highly appreciated by both participants and people passing by for a peak. The Tap Jam is a social gathering where the participants communicate to each other with rhythms. Sometimes calmer and sometimes crazier, this event is really created by the people in it and therefor never looks the same from one night to another! Everyone are welcome to bring their shoes and join in!
30’s, 50’s, 70’s or 90’s? What is your year of birth? Let this year be your guide for what to wear and what to bring. Most likely it is before the era of cellphones, computers and for some people even before TV. Puffy bangs full of hairspray and pink tricots or bellbottomed pants and a fluffy fro. Beatles, Abba, MC Hammer or Spice Girls - it’s all depending on your date of birth.
