[ MORE INFO // FACEBOOK INVITE ]
Join us for a special free outdoor concert and dance party in Times Square sponsored by JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER and TIMES SQUARE ALLIANCE… featuring The Hot Toddies Jazz Band and a free dance lesson by YOU SHOULD BE DANCING… Dance Center! This is the first of several collabs with Prohibition Productions to help bring swing dancing to Jazz at Lincoln Center. So come on down and lindy bomb times square!
HOT TODDIES JAZZ BAND (5:00 to 6:15pm)
Hannah Gill (vocals), Alphonso Horne (trumpet), Linus Wyrsch (reeds), Justin Poindexter (guitar), Hyuna Park (keys), Brandi Disterheft (bass), Patrick Soluri (drums)
+
free swing dance lesson by YSBD (4:40 to 5:00pm)
46th Street & Broadway
(in front of T-Mobile store / 1535 Broadway)
TIMES SQUARE LIVE (more info) // JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
Jazz at Lincoln Center, the not-for-profit organization dedicated to entertaining, enriching, and expanding a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy, will take over Times Square to bring New York City's jazz scene to Broadway. JALC will infuse the area with good vibrations, featuring some of the most talented emerging artists amidst the hustle and bustle of Times Square.
THE HOT TODDIES JAZZ BAND are a fun-loving hot jazz & swing band from NYC. They have an eclectic mix of styles perfect for dancing, lindy hop, and good times. Founded just before the pandemic, the band quickly became one of the top swing bands on the scene in NYC, the birthplace of the dance.
Led by noted composer / producer / drummer PATRICK SOLURI (Prohibition Productions), the band features some of today’s top musicians in the swing & trad jazz worlds including noted vocalists QUEEN ESTHER (James “Blood” Ulmer) and HANNAH GILL (Post Modern Jukebox); as well as trumpeter ALPHONSO HORNE (Jazz at Lincoln Center), Grammy winning reedman LINUS WYRSCH, trombonist JAKE HANDELMAN (Gordon Webster Band), guitarist JUSTIN POINDEXTER (Jazz at Lincoln Center), and IAN HUTCHISON (Sw!ng Out, Eyal Vilner Big Band).
presented by PROHIBITION PRODUCTIONS and JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
Quisque iaculis facilisis lacinia. Mauris euismod pellentesque tellus sit amet mollis.