Jon Tigert is our guest this month! He is a DJ, musician, emcee and international Lindy Hop instructor based in Baltimore, USA. The bandleader and drummer for the Corner Pocket Jazz Band, Jon very nearly spent his life in musical theatre and not the swing dancing community.

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Grey Armstrong, author of ObsidianTea.com and Blues instructor and DJ joins me for this episode.

Some other key facts about Grey include that he was born in Ohio, has synesthesia, loves foxes (the country ones, not the urban ones), and loves his cat T'challa Panther Lily even more. Oh, and he has blue hair.

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It's only Jonathan Blimmin' Stout as my guest this month! (Not his real middle name)

A Lindy Hopper since 1996, he grew up in the Southern California swing revival, learning from original-era Lindy and  Balboa dancers. He started playing swing music in 1999, and in 2002 started a band with Hilary Alexander, the Campus Five,  with the sole and express purpose of playing dance music for Lindy Hop and Balboa dancers.

He's released 4 albums that are now pretty much standard issue for swing dance DJs and instructors around the globe. At the request of promoters for different flavours, he's started SIX more bands: the JSO, the Grand Slam Sextet, etc. They play the top swing dance events in the US and around the Globe: Lindy Focus, Camp Hollywood, ILHC, Lindy Shock, California Balboa Classic, and all the others.

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Jonathon Stout is the magic fingered man behind the original music for our theme song.