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In addition to the Tea Dances, the following future performance is scheduled:
3rd Annual Canadian Tulip Festival Swing Dance
Friday, May 11 at 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM
The third annual Canadian Tulip Festival Swing Dance will be held on Friday May 11th, 2018 – on Opening Night of the 2018 Canadian Tulip Festival (www.tulipfestival.ca). TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE at http://tulipfestival.ca/activity/3rd-annual-tulip-festival-swing-dance/ (click on the Register button)!
The Swing Dance is produced in collaboration with the Ottawa Swing Dance Society (www.swingottawa.ca) and the Standing Room Only big band (www.srobigband.ca) and fits very nicely into the Tulip Festival’s integrated theme of VE Day and the Liberation of the Netherlands (‘party like it’s 1945’), and the Netherlands’ gift of tulips to Canada in the 1940s. Due to its tremendous success in 2016 and 2017, the Canadian Tulip Festival Swing Dance, which includes a beginner swing dance lesson taught by OSDS instructors (photo), has become an established annual event. In 2018 the Swing Dance moves from Lansdowne Park’s Aberdeen Pavilion to the adjacent Horticulture Building, that will accommodate six hundred (!) swing dancers.
The doors open at 6:30 pm, the Beginner Swing Dance Lesson with live music provided by the SRO Snippets Sextet is from 7:30 to 8:30 pm, and the Swing Dance with live music provided by the Standing Room Only big band with vocalist Pauline Proulx is from 8:30 to 11:30 pm. Tickets are $20 inclusive in advance (online) or $25 at the door and include same-day admission to Festival gated areas (Aberdeen Pavilion, South Court, and East Court) from 10 am to 5 pm, plus free OC Transpo to and from Lansdowne Park upon presentation of your ticket from 7 am Friday morning until 2:30 am Saturday morning. This is an all-ages event with a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and food available for sale. Swing dancers are encouraged to wear WWII period dress as a tribute to the Festival’s military heritage.
Mark your calendar, buy your ticket now, and don't miss this amazing once a year event.
The Swing Dance is produced in collaboration with the Ottawa Swing Dance Society (www.swingottawa.ca) and the Standing Room Only big band (www.srobigband.ca) and fits very nicely into the Tulip Festival’s integrated theme of VE Day and the Liberation of the Netherlands (‘party like it’s 1945’), and the Netherlands’ gift of tulips to Canada in the 1940s. Due to its tremendous success in 2016 and 2017, the Canadian Tulip Festival Swing Dance, which includes a beginner swing dance lesson taught by OSDS instructors (photo), has become an established annual event. In 2018 the Swing Dance moves from Lansdowne Park’s Aberdeen Pavilion to the adjacent Horticulture Building, that will accommodate six hundred (!) swing dancers.
The doors open at 6:30 pm, the Beginner Swing Dance Lesson with live music provided by the SRO Snippets Sextet is from 7:30 to 8:30 pm, and the Swing Dance with live music provided by the Standing Room Only big band with vocalist Pauline Proulx is from 8:30 to 11:30 pm. Tickets are $20 inclusive in advance (online) or $25 at the door and include same-day admission to Festival gated areas (Aberdeen Pavilion, South Court, and East Court) from 10 am to 5 pm, plus free OC Transpo to and from Lansdowne Park upon presentation of your ticket from 7 am Friday morning until 2:30 am Saturday morning. This is an all-ages event with a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and food available for sale. Swing dancers are encouraged to wear WWII period dress as a tribute to the Festival’s military heritage.
Mark your calendar, buy your ticket now, and don't miss this amazing once a year event.
