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The Hep Cat Club is every Monday at the Twisted Pepper on Middle Abbey Street. There's a beginners class at 8pm  every week - all welcome! No experience or partner needed.

February classes at the Hep Cat Club - Solo Jazz at 7pm, Improvers Swing at 7pm, Beginners Swing at 8pm, Blues at 8pm, Intermediate Exchange 9pm.

Monday 27th Feb - get the red carpet treatment at the Hep Cat Club's OSCARs special!

March classes at the Hep Cat Club - Beginners Swing (level 1) at 8pm, Fast Beginners Swing (level 2) at 8pm, Improvers Swing (level 3) at 7pm, Introduction to Tap at 7pm, Intermediate Balboa at 8pm, Intermediate Lindy Exchange at 10pm.

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    The Music

    "Swing music has a real sense of fun, with a big smile on it's face" Sean, DJ, Dublin.

    Swing encompasses a wide spectrum of music, from the big and small band jazz music of the 1930s and early 1940s, through the jump jive of Louis Jordan, early R&B and the Rat Pack lounge crooners of the 1950s to the new swing bands of today.

    Musicians like Count Basie, Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway and singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday were some of those who pioneered the big band and swing sound. In 1932, as if issuing a call to arms, Duke Ellington recorded “Don’t Mean a Thing if it ain’t got that Swing.” Rhythm is key to the unique swing sound, which developed when double bass and guitar replaced tuba and banjo in the rhythm section of the band, opening up new rhythmic possibilities.

    Swing and big band music are currently undergoing a revival – with names such as Robbie Williams and West Life covering old classics.