About this event

Bill Brodie, Mark Gilman, Leslie DeGiere, Katarina Höger, Farhad Nasibov, and Eli Rumpf dance to Jimmy Witherspoon’s When the Light’s Go Out. The dance was choreographed by Jenny Sowden, a blues and swing dance professional currently based out of Brooklyn, NY.

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Jimmy Witherspoon, the blues musician

Jimmy Witherspoon (1920-1997) was a blues artist from Arkansas. Read more at Wikipedia or Allmusic.

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Blues Dance New York (BDNY) for hosting the dance class series leading up to this event. Thank you, Jenny, for the lovely choreography, and for sharing the links that helped us learn more about Jimmy Witherspoon!

Video credit: Josh Cintorino, of BDNY, April 2019

The photo is a still from the video. Josh and BDNY get photo credits as well.