STORK - Student Orchestra Festival in Uppsala

This weekend Uppsala is filled with student orchestras from Sweden and Scandinavia since it's STORK, the student orchestra festival. The bands and orchestras play in the town squares, at the student nations and at Parksnäckan (the outdoor scene in the city park).

There are all kinds of bands, most of them play jazz, but there are brass bands, bands who play soul and funk and there's even a choir that sings songs from the former Soviet union.



Some of the bands has also their own dance troupe (or has cooperation with one). Patriciabaletten is one of the best dance troupes.

The bands will play in Parksnäckan today between 11 and 17. Free. The weather promises to be sunny and warm so this seems to be a perfect way to spend a Sunday.

The photos are taken by me and may not be published elsewhere without my permission. Contact me if you want to license them.

Have you visited STORK? What is your favorite band? Tell me.

Swe-dukes at Grand Swing Night

The band Swe-dukes will play at Grand tonight. Come and dance lindy hop, balboa or whatever the music tell you to do.

The evening starts at 20 with DJ David and the band enters the stage at 21 and plays until midnight when I will dj a late night set.

Come join us! Grand, Trädgårdsgatan 5, Uppsala. 80 kr.

The photo is taken by me and may not be published elsewhere without my permission. Contact me if you want to license it.

Help me find missing video clips

Do you want to be a detective, spy or a private investigator?

Well, here is your chance. Help me find missing video clips!

In the early days of this blog, I didn't save a copy of the video clips I found on youtube and blogged about. Due to the ever changing nature of internet, some of the clips I blogged about has disappered.

The blog posts are now incomplete without the video clips. I would like to have your help locating the video clips again.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it:
In the following list of blog posts you'll find clues to the missing clips. Follow each lead and bring back a link to the video clip mentioned.

Post the link in the comments of that specific post or in this post or send a mail to me.

Should any team member be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

Good hunting!

Missing video clips:

• Crazy Riffin'
• James Session
• A song is born
• In the mood
• Ballin' the jack
• "Dig You Later (A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba)"
• The Firehouse Five Plus Two playing Tiger Rag
  

The photo is taken by me and may not be used elsewhere without my permission. Contact me if you want licence the photo.

Phontrattarne Grand Show at Reginateatern

Tonight it's premiere for Grand Show by Phontrattare at Reginateatern. This show has been done for many years and is one of the best signs that the spring has arrived. The show usually contains a lot of good big band music and a lot of comedy. The band and the dancers have a fondness of picking up old gems of music and writing new lyrics to them.



I encourage everybody that have opportunity to see the show and I'm hoping that I can have the chance to photograph one of their shows.

The shows are each day between May 8th and May 15th.



The photos are taken by me and may not be published elsewhere without my permission. Contact me if you want to license them. They are taken about two weeks ago when Phontrattarne did a concert at Stora Torget in Uppsala.

Will you see Grand Show with Phontrattarne? Tell me.

Anything Goes: Show photos

I saw the musical Anything Goes at Grand last night. It's a nice musical about young love, crime and all sorts of complications. It's a lightweight way to spend an evening with song, dance and comedy.



The show even had small parts with charleston and lindy hop.

If you want to see the show, you'll have another chance on Sunday May 11th at 20:00.



The photos are taken by me and may not be published elsewhere without my permission. Contact me if you want to license them.

Have you seen Anything Goes at Grand? What do you think of the musical? Tell me.

Sweet Emma & The Mood Swingers - Chicago boogie

Here is a music video featuring Sweet Emma & The Mood Swingers playing Chicago boogie.

Sweet Emma & The Mood Swingers is a popular rhythm & blues band from Uppsala. The video was shot at Grand with a lot of dancers from Swingkatten. You might want to look at how the video shoot looked like in November last year.

If you want to dance to them, you can do that in Stockholm May 17th at Swedish Swing Society (the dance club, not the band).

What do you think of the music video with Sweet Emma & The Mood Swingers? Tell me.

Dance Movie Blogathon

Ferdi On Film has declared this week a Dance Movie Blogathon where partipants blog about dance on film.

My own small contribution will be a link to my archive of posts about films and movies.

Enjoy!