Social Dances
The main events during NYLX are our social dances, featuring some of the top swing bands in the world at historic and unique NYC venues… go to all three!
Friday, September 20th
SONY HALL
235 W 46th St. (btw 8th Ave & Broadway)
8:00pm to 1:00am
featuring live music by
GORDON WEBSTER BAND
HOT TODDIES JAZZ BAND feat. Hannah Gill
MC DANDY WELLINGTON
DJ ANDRIUS
$49 Early Bird // $54 in advance // $59 at the door
this event is ALL AGES!
This dance is included with NYLX event package & any full day packages
HISTORY: Opened in 1938 in the basement of the Paramount Hotel, the space soon became the famed Diamond Horseshoe nightclub in the 1940s. Later it become a legitimate Broadway theatre, and then a private venue through the 1980’s. It remained mostly closed in the 1990s and 2000s, and reemerged in 2013 after a 20-million-dollar renovation into the theater for the immersive production of “Queen of the Night.” It was then purchased by the Blue Note Group, and reopened as Sony Hall in 2018.
Saturday, September 21st
THE ALHAMBRA BALLROOM
2116 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd (corner of 126th st)
7:00pm to 12:00am / doors 6:30pm
featuring live music by
EYAL VILNER BIG BAND
DJ SAM COLEMAN
$29 Early Bird // $35 in advance // $39 at the door
(includes entry to after-party with live music in same location to 2:00am)
this event is ALL AGES!
This dance is included with NYLX event package & any full day packages
HISTORY: Built originally as a vaudeville theater in 1905, The Alhambra played an important role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, and in the jazz scene of the 1930s and 1940s hosting performances by Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and others. It is the last of the great dance ballrooms from the swing era in Harlem.
Sunday, September 22nd
You Should Be Dancing...! Dance Center
37 West 26th Street (2nd fl)
7:30pm to 2:30am
featuring live music by
DANNY JONOKUCHI & THE REVISIONISTS
DANNY LIPSITZ& BRASS TACKS
MIKEY JUNIOR (late night blues)
$29 Early Bird // $35 in advance // $39 at the door
Late Night Blues Only: $15 Advance // $20 Door
this event is ALL AGES!
After dancing hard all weekend, our farewell night lets you cut loose dancing to three back-to-back bands, plus swing & blues DJs, at our home base of YSBD! We’ve got lots in the works for this night (including a special bar & midnight pizza), so even if you’ve been to YSBD before, you’ve never seen it like this!
