DJs tend to play the part of the band at the majority of dance events, and DJ’s music selection really can affect how a dance community flourishes. The song selection, variety and tempo of music each DJ chooses shapes a dance evening. Fortunately, in the swing community most often the DJ is also a dancer, …
ABW 2010 Contest Music
So after several years of being the Head DJ at ABW, I thought I would finally release the song names and artists for the competition music. Have fun, enjoy, and if you hear that song next year, which you probably will, don’t suck. AM Jack and Jill Prelims AM Jack and Jill SemiFinals AM Jack …
Three exciting lectures, this year at All Balboa Weekend 2010.
Give those weary feet a rest and come hang out with me and my friends throughout the day on Sunday. History, expression, and the joy of music at All Balboa Weekend 2010. 10:00am Main Ballroom Django Reinhardt: 100 This year we celebrate the 100th birthday of Django Reinhardt. Wake up Sunday morning, grab a cup …
10 Favorite Benny Goodman Tracks
In 1938, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America. The concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City that year is described by critic Bruce Eder as “the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz’s ‘coming out’ party to the world of ‘respectable’ music”. It crowned Benny Goodman as the ‘King of Swing,’ and solidified his position in the annuls of history as one of the most important and influential musicians in history.
WordPress Admin Tools I Love
I love WordPress plugins. Not only for the website, but for the admin side of WordPress as well. There are several plugins out there that can improve the quality of the admin side, here are 6 of them that I use.
Top 5 Balboa Songs For Beginners
Learning balboa doesn’t need to be made more difficult by listening to highly intellectual music. These 5 songs make for some good times learning balboa.
My Blog Guest
Do you have a blog, but struggle to write original content? Are you a writer who is looking for freelance work? MyBlogGuest.com has the solution. MyBlogGuest.com uses a forum to connect blog owners with writers. Started by Ann Smarty as a way to build relations and powerful links through guest blogs to promote web resources, the website is a simple solution to a common problem.
Discover Tennessee
With the increased excitement surrounding AJAX and all the associated frameworks, jQuery, mootools etc.., the web has become a great place to live. Just discovered over at CSSRemix, Discover Tennessee Trails showcases one of the newer applications of jQuery, Parallax Effect. This allows a background image, or anything else for that matter, to move at a different pace than the web page . The differences in tempo of motion creates a wonderful illusion of depth to the site.
Logo Of The Day
Perusing the web for inspiration, I came across logooftheday.com. It’s a simple site dedicated to providing logo samples from around the web.
