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- Imagine a weekend of the best Lindy, blues and soul music.
- Imagine a party atmosphere with 3 nights of costumed theme parties.
including Hawaiian Swing, Gypsy/Steampunk Blues and Super Sixties Soul Sunday.
- Imagine five of the best DJs from Lindy Hop, Blues and Soul.
- Imagine a venue that is 1/2 dance club, 1/2 living room, and 1/2 bar.
- We imagine you will be coming to Gypsy House Party - Dallas.
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The DJ’s
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Tina Davis Tina has been a featured DJ at workshops, exchanges and dance events all across the nation (and Canada!) since staring this “DJ thang” in Florida in 2003.No matter if it’s Blues, Soul, Lindy or whatever, Tina likes to spins a mix of styles for her sets but it's all gotta have a little "ass" to it to make the cut. She’s most definitely in her happy place when folks are dancin’ and laughin’, movin’ and groovin’ to her sets.Tina’s home base is currently Dallas, Texas where you can occasionally find her spinning at Dallas’ weekly blues dance, called Blues’n the Night, hosted by Jerry and Kathy Warwick. She’s also been known on occasion to teach Blues and Lindy Hop with some weird guy named Don West and reportedly has a sick devotion to the University of Florida Gators.
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Steven Watkins Steven, a.k.a. Dr. Feelgood, started dancing in 1998 in New York City and now calls San Francisco/Oakland Home! His BLUES DJing stuff began at his other adopted home - St. Louis during Cheap Thrills 2004. Since then, Dr. Feelgood has been thrilled to spread/share his love for the BLUES with a handsome mix of smooth, sultry, gritty music, coupled with a great sense of musical timing in order to take dancers on a serious journey. Rest assured if it were up to him, there would be no venues...every dance hall would feel like a "Joint". Oh, those sexy good looks help too!
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Mike Marcotte - Washington, D.C. Mike Marcotte hails from Washington DC and has served as the head DJ for the International Lindy Hop Championships since it's inception. Whether as the house DJ at K2 Dance Studio, putting together Sunday Blues at Glen Echo with his partner Donna Barker, to The Jam Cellar and beyond -- he's always trying to keep the floor rocking. He was honored to have been selected to be among the DJs at the Frankie95 Birthday Festival in NYC. He has served as a competition DJ for several years at Swing Fling, The Virginia State Open, and The American Lindy Hop Championships.
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Jim Wheatley - Atlanta, Georgia Jim has DJed numerous local Swing and Blues Events and Lindy Exchanges throughout the country, was co-founder of the Atlanta Lindy Exchange. But even before he started DJing Swing and Lindy events or dancing those styles, Jim was listening to and loving classic Blues and Soul Music. That love became evident as long as a decade ago when, in the midst of the neo-swing movement, he still managed to pepper his playlists with tunes from the likes of James Brown and Aretha Franklin. Since then, as the acceptance of classic Soul Music has increased in the dance community, Jim has had the opportunity to DJ more blues and soul sets, including an Atlanta event known as “The Vinyl Experience,” where he plays soul music on all vinyl! He also DJed at 2009’s MezzJelly Soul event in Dallas, at the inaugural 2007 Swing & Soul event in Atlanta, and at the recent Sweet Georgia Blues event in Atlanta. Although he won’t be spinning vinyl at the Gypsy House Blues Party, Jim will be offering up some tasty sets that just might include digitized versions of some rare blues and soul vinyl!
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Jerry Warwick Having grown up in the 60’s and 70’s, musical variety has been a way of life for me and there is very little of it I don’t like. Much the same is true with the music I love to dance to. All it has to do is move me, and I want to dance. So, when the idea of Gypsy House Party came up, I was and am very excited to share the music that makes me want to dance. Plus, I get to share the stage with such great, talented DJ’s that will surely create a dancing vibe like none other.
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