Main members of the family are listed below.
Fredrik ‘Noodles’ Dahlberg (‘Handsome Fred’) – trumpet/leader/vocals
Emerson Håkansson – trombone
Wilson Novák (‘The Fabulous Bricks Nightingale’) – clarinet/soprano saxophone
Sibbe Svensson (‘Boss’) – tenor saxophone/vocals
Rikard Ekstrand – piano/guitar/vocals
Christopher Tipsy ‘Banjodjango’ Mair (‘The Lord’) – banjo/guitar/vocals
Money Huss (‘The Captain’) – string bass/vocals
Slim Larsson (‘The Champ’) – drums/guitar
Stretch Persson – guitar
THE DARKSIDERS
THE DARKSIDERS is a swing band from Valencia, it’s our houseband, by joining a passionate set of musicians with a long trajectory playing in the Lindy Hop scene. They offer a trip back in time, playing tunes from great jazz masters as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Illinois Jacquet, Johnny Hodges and many others.
Our up-to-5-piece horn section creates a vibrant and energic sound, while the rhythm section will smoothly guide your feet to the dancefloor.
One of the band’s distinguishing aspects is their link to the dance scene. Many of them dance Lindy Hop and other dances of African American heritage. This love of dance is reflected in the repertoire, which includes their favorite tunes to dance to.
HORNSGATAN RAMBLERS
Hornsgatan Ramblers is a jazz band from Stockholm Sweden.
Their main focus is set on rhythm and swing, from the more or less legal ballrooms of New York in the thirties and forties. With the bands’ own adaptations and arrangements of the music of jazz giants such as Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and Charlie Christian, the Ramblers have developed a sound of their own. By now that unique sound has brought the band to countries such as Greece, Italy, Germany, Finland, Turkey, Lithuania, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, etc. And of course all over Sweden.
The band was started in the autumn of 2009, when a few swing dancers in Stockholm decided to form a band and to start playing the music that they loved to dance to, to explore it further and reach a deeper understanding of it.
The band name comes from a street in the neighbourhood in Stockholm where most members work and live, and where the world famous Chicago Swing Dance Studio is located – and in which the very first rehearsals took place.
Several of the band members also dance in the renowned swing dance company The Hot Shots and teach swing dancing, and have won and judged numerous dance contests all over the world.
Swinging Undermoon is an International Workshop of Lindy Hop & Jazz Roots in Valencia organized by Javi Molina.
We will enjoy 4 days of classes & parties. Good weather, good food & our neverending parties!
Come and dance with us from 5th to 8th December!
THE RHYTHM IS JUMPIN'!