Social Dancing is back in 2025!
We will be running four dances, one a season. Please save these dates:
Swing On High - Summer Edition - Sat 15th Feb
Swing On High - Autumn Edition - Sat 17th May
Swing On High - Winter Edition - Sat 16th Aug
Swing On High - Spring Edition - Sat 15th Nov
Thank you all for your enthusiasm, support and encouragement that helped to bring these dances back.
It’s the real sense of community that you all create that makes this dance so great!
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There is nothing quite like being in a big dance hall surrounded by swing dancers, a hot swing band filling the air with rhythm, people laughing and smiling from ear to ear, no thoughts of anything outside of the room. A connection with the music and your dance partner that defies words. This is what we live for!
Swing On High - Our Seasonal Social Dance!
We get together on the third Saturday of the third month of each season to share the love!
DJ Rusty and the best live swing bands in Melbourne will keep the swingiest swing tunes pumping out so you can go crazy all night and leave absolutely exhausted…. (but really really happy).
Below is a list of our dates and swing bands we have organised to play just for you!
In our DJ sets, we will delight you with a mix of authentic original songs right out of the swing eras from the 1920s to the early 1950s, some awesome remastered versions, wonderful new recordings in premium sound from the swing bands of today, some classic neo-swing, from the musicians who rescued this music from near extinction and some electro-swing, just because it is so much fun! It really is a mash up of everything, and it just works. Rusty is always ready to take requests or find what you want for next time.
The crowd we attract comes from far and wide, many travelling down from country Victoria and all over Melbourne. We always welcome interstate or international visitors with open arms and a queue of potential dance partners. We encourage people to meet each other with fun ruedas and other progressive dances. Lots of door prizes, Birthday steal dances, A good ‘ol Shim Sham and other strolls, we may even throw in a Killer Boogie!
Our music ranges in tempo from a bluesy 90 bpm (beats per minute) through to a blistering 250+ bpm for STFO with Lindy Hop, Shag or Balboa.
Most songs range from about 115-180 bpm, we vary the speeds often and we dance all the swing dances. Rock and Roll dancers will feel very much at home here!
Antonio Park Primary School 631-639 Whitehorse Rd Mitcham 3132
8pm start - Midnight. DJ Nights $20 Entry, Live Band Nights $25 Entry.
BYO: food and drink, dance shoes, expectations for an awesome evening!
Supplied: Tea, Coffee, Water, Swingiest Dance Tunes, Lots of them!
Bookings (required for reserved seating): Text Rusty 0418 396 107 or via the Contact & Booking page.
Upcoming Dates for 2025:
Swing On High - Summer Edition - Sat 15th Feb
Swing On High - Autumn Edition - Sat 17th May
Swing On High - Winter Edition - Sat 16th Aug
Swing On High - Spring Edition - Sat 15th Nov
Content lower down on this page is from previous events and is still to be updated, check in again soon 😀
DJ Rusty
The Martini Set
Flying Home
Jennifer Salisbury’s Swingin’ Elixir
Check out The Swingin’ Elixir’s new song “I Prefer To Swing” filmed and recorderd at Eltham Jazz Festival and the Victorian Jazz Club featuring some of our local swing dancers in the background
The Pearly Shells Hot Six
The Martini Set
Jennifer Salisbury’s Swingin’ Elixir
DJ Rusty
Some of last year’s events - (just filling up space until we lock in this year’s entertainment 😉)
Swing On High - Saturday 19th August with The Pearly Shells Hot Six and DJ Rusty bringing the best swing tunes!
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Swing On High - Saturday 19th August with The Pearly Shells Hot Six and DJ Rusty bringing the best swing tunes! 〰️
Victorian Jazz Club live gigs at Clayton RSL
Gigs generally held on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month
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