{"id":79846,"date":"2018-07-15T18:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T22:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=79846"},"modified":"2018-07-15T18:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T22:10:20","slug":"southside-swing-at-steelstacks-returns-with-free-swing-lessons-grammy-award-nominee-david-ostwald-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=79846","title":{"rendered":"SouthSide Swing at SteelStacks Returns with Free Swing Lessons, Grammy Award Nominee David Ostwald and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured Image: The SouthSide Swing stage and 2018 performers.<\/em><\/p>\n

BETHLEHEM, PA – Loosen those limbs and get ready to dance because SouthSide Swing presented by Coordinated Health and WDIY returns to Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks July 19-21.<\/p>\n

Don’t know how to swing? No problem! Gas House Dance Hall dance instructors will be on the 24 x 24 Levitt Lawn dance floor starting at 6:45 p.m. each day to get dancers ready for performances by hot jazz artists like Drew Nugent & the Midnight Society July 19, which perform jazz, blues and pop from the ’20s-’30s, and The New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings July 21, playing traditional New Orleans jazz.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, SouthSide Swing also welcomes David Ostwald, who with blues legend Big Joe Turner was nominated for a Grammy award in 1986. Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band will be featured at the Friday Levitt performance.<\/p>\n

The complete schedule for SouthSide Swing is as follows:<\/p>\n

July 19
\n6:45 p.m. – FREE Beginner Swing Lesson, Levitt Pavilion
\n7:30 p.m. – Drew Nugent & the Midnight Society, Levitt Pavilion<\/p>\n

July 20
\n6:45 p.m. – FREE Beginner Swing Lesson, Levitt Pavilion
\n7:30 p.m. – David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, Levitt Pavilion
\n9:00 p.m. – Evan Cory Levine & His Singular Band, Community Stage<\/p>\n

July 21
\n6:45 p.m. – FREE Beginner Swing Lesson, Levitt Pavilion
\n7:30 p.m. – The New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings, Levitt Pavilion
\n9:00 p.m. – Bitters & Rye, Community Stage<\/p>\n

For more information, visit www.steelstacks.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Information and image provided to TVL by:
\nMark Demko, ArtsQuest
\nhttp:\/\/www.artsquest.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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