Booking is now open for the much-anticipated Collegiate Shag Workshop in February! Pick up a form in class, or email your details to info@cambridgelindy.com and we’ll send you the payment information.

See the event page for more information – or visit collegiateshag.com if you want to know more about Shag.

Well, Halloween will be over by Monday, but we don’t see any reason to miss out on a ghoulish party. Come along to the Man In the Moon on Norfolk Street for a ghostly and ghastly Speakeasy, with the fabulous Colin Hazel providing the music.

A new Wednesday block starts tonight. Tonight will be taught by Katherine and Will; the remainder of the block will be taught by Gerald and Maria. .

We’re very pleased to announce that the bands are back at the Speakeasy after their summer break! Here’s the schedule:

28/09/2009 Better Than TV
05/10/2009 Colin Hazel
12/10/2009 Rob James Trio
19/10/2009 Better Than TV
26/10/2009 DJ
02/11/2009 Colin Hazel
09/11/2009 Rob James Trio
16/11/2009 Better Than TV
23/11/2009 DJ
30/11/2009 Rob James Trio
07/12/2009 Colin Hazel
14/12/2009 DJ
21/12/2009 Better Than TV

As of Wednesday 2nd September, Wednesday classes will be returning to their normal schedule of a beginners class at 7:30, social dancing at 8:30, and intermediates at 9, all at the Centre at St Pauls. See you there!

From now until September we will just be having ONE MIXED LEVEL CLASS on Wednesdays, running from 7:30 until 8:30. This will be followed by social dancing until 9. Do please keep coming as we’ve got some awesome lessons planned, but don’t turn up for the usual intermediates class because we won’t be there!

We’ve only opened registration for about 10 days and we’ve sold over half our follower passes!!

To keep our numbers nice and even we’ll be closing booking for single follows very soon, so do book quickly and if possible as a couple (just mention who your partner is in the comments box).

Tickets are selling quickly, so if you’d like to join us for a weekend of dancing, socialising and cake in Cambridge – book now!!

For more information see our lindy exchange website: www.cambridgelindyexchange.co.uk

We’re very much looking forward to our lindy exchange in October and have started recruiting our volunteers. At the open meeting there was a request that the volunteer opportunities were put on the website, so now they have been! You can find the information here. Thank you!

Thanks to everyone who came along to the open meeting! It was great to hear your input for the summer classes and get an idea of what/when you’d like our next workshop to be. The minutes are up on the forum, so do check them out and get back to us with any more thoughts.

Many thanks to everyone who came along to Strawberry Fair and joined us in the parade! It was brilliant to take along such a huge contingent, and I think we owe ourselves much kudos for managing to dance our way round the long parade route!

We’re very happy to let you know that the Speakeasy’s air-conditioning is fixed!! Thanks to the Man on the Moon for sorting it before the summer really got going.   Remember that the bands will be taking some time off over the summer, so come along in June to be sure of getting your Monday fix of live music and social dancing.

CLH are taking part in the parade for Strawberry Fair this Saturday.  Wear your vintage clothes, or show off your CLH stash, and dance your way through town with us, starting at around 10:30am.  Anyone who would like to come along, please email info[at]cambridgelindy.com so we can book your free lunch and send you the details.

This Sunday (7th) is the start of the council’s Jazz in the Park events.  A group of us will be headed down to Jesus Green enjoy the free music and have a picnic.  Do come and join us.  The live music is between 3 and 5pm, and we’ll bring our own music too.