This morning Frankie Manning passed away peacefully.

Frankie Manning has been an inspiration to us all and the outpouring of love from the community in these past few days is amazing.  Many people are sharing their stories of Frankie on Facebook and elsewhere.  Please feel free to leave your memories here as well.

I’ve done my part.  Now it’s your turn. A one… a two… you know what to do…

Frankie Manning

Tonight swingout for Frankie.

Filed Under: Dance Community, Lindybloggers | Monday, April 27th, 2009
Tags: ambassador of lindy hop, frankie manning, lindy hop, memories, passing, rip

Here are the results for the Lindy & Balboa competitions at Boston Tea Party.

Stay tuned for the full review and a picture of the Lindyblogger crew live from Tea Party.

Balboa Jack & Jill

1       Paul Salter & Abigail Browning
2       Jason Platt & Natasha Ouimet
3       Patrick Wall & Nikki Marvin

Novice Lindy Hop Jack & Jill

1       Nathaniel Allen & Ellen Murray
2       Mortimer Gerdon & Alicia Wagner
3       Brian Zimmer & Stephanie Bourque

Intermediate Lindy Hop Jack & Jill

1       Mark Muthersbaugh & Lisa Casper
2       Douglas Van Sant & Amanda Fong
3       William Ewanick & Vicki Grenier

Advanced Lindy Hop Jack & Jill

1       Alain Fragman & Crista Seipp
2       Andrew Thigpen & Natasha Ouimet
3       Carl Nelson & Caroline Rossi

Strictly Balboa

1       Jason Herron & Andree-Anne Tremblay
2       Patrick Szmidt & Natasha Ouimet
3       Davis Thurber & Valerie Salstrom

Strictly Lindy Hop

1       Michael Pedroza & Nikki Marvin
2       Joshua Welter & Melanie Huot-Lavoie
3       Andrew Thigpen & Karen Turman

For full listings of the competition results go to here.

Pardon for the initial error in the Intermediate J&J results.  I blame the lack of sleep that Tea Party brought upon.

Filed Under: Event Reviews | Monday, March 30th, 2009
Tags: balboa, boston tea party, competition, lindy hop, results, swing dance

Lindybloggers has gone off the deep end of social media and joined up with the Twittersphere.

If a blog post a day or so isn’t enough you can get our feed of favorite video links, dance tweets and more here.

We’ll also be using Twitter to live blog at events starting this weekend with the Boston Tea Party in Danvers, MA.

Follow us on Twitter.

You’ll also notice the new social sharing buttons at the bottom of posts so if you like a post, share it with your friends.

Filed Under: Lindybloggers | Friday, March 27th, 2009
Tags: boston tea party, lindy hop, Lindybloggers, live blogging, social media, swing dance, twitter, twittersphere

Welcome to Lindybloggers.com!

Alain and I are excited to launch at the first ILHC (International Lindy Hop Championships) this weekend in Washington, D.C.

Stay tuned for up-to-the-minute coverage of this first time event and look forward to articles, interviews and reviews.

Filed Under: Dance Community, Upcoming Events | Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Tags: dance, dc, ilhc, international lindy hop championships, lindy hop, washington