Euclids Fifth » music http://www.euclidsfifth.com Development and Design Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:55:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Top 5 Balboa Songs For Beginners http://www.euclidsfifth.com/music-and-dance/top-5-balboa-songs-for-beginners/ http://www.euclidsfifth.com/music-and-dance/top-5-balboa-songs-for-beginners/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:25:19 +0000 Kyle Smith http://www.euclidsfifth.com/?p=493 Learning Balboa can be a challenging task. Trying to learn Balboa while dancing to a complicated song can make things even more difficult. And it’s more than just the tempo of a song. Easy rhythms, simple song structure, and repetition can all make dancing that much simpler. It doesn’t mean that the music is completely void of interest, rather the song assists you in your learning process, rather than confuse you.  Below are 5 of my favorite beginner balboa tunes.

Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho – Sidney Bechet

Central Avenue Shuffle – Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra

At The Clambake Carnival – Cab Calloway

A Viper’s Moan – Mora’s Modern Rhythmists

Community Swing – Glenn Miller

Learning balboa? What songs do you like to dance to?

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I like to view being a DJ like being the conductor of a train. The job is to take their passengers from A to B, and along the way provide them with an experience they won’t forget, filled with beauty, excitement, and wonder. The DJ is the conductor of an evening’s journey through music and dance. Taking the dancer from stop to stop, giving them the chance to get off where they wish, but hoping that the ride is just too good not keep going. This involves crafting a set that moves seamlessly from Lionel Hampton to Louis Prima to Django and on, taking my passengers to the familiar hot spots of Basie and Bechet, but pushing their musical boundaries, bringing them to new found hot spots like Edgar Hayes and Gene Kardos. The journey is a non-stop flight of excitement, thrill and musical seduction. My goal is to leave the dancing passengers wanting more.

My DJ experience is vast, some of the highlights include:

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  • Camp Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA)
  • All Balboa Weekend (Cleveland, OH)
  • Eastern Balboa Championships (Raleigh, NC)
  • Balboa on the Promenade (Nice, FR)
  • Northwest Balboa Fest (Seattle, WA)
  • Inspiration Weekend (Orange County, CA)
  • Sin City Exchange (Las Vegas, NV)
  • San Francisco Lindy Exchange (San Francisco, CA)
  • Lindy Groove (Pasadena, CA)
  • ATOMIC Ballroom (Irvine, CA)
  • Hiball Lounge (San Francisco, CA)
  • 920 Special (San Francisco, CA)

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