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OCTOBER 10-12, 2003, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
Hello Swing Cats and Kittens,
It’s time for me to tell you about something amazing and truly awesome that’s coming up in Toronto this coming Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend (Columbus Day Weekend - US). Yeah Baby Productions is proud to announce the Paul&Sharon Weekend Extravaganza, October 10-12, 2003, at Toronto’s Design Exchange with a very special musical guest, Ms. Barbara Morrison!
Come to Toronto for 3 days of live music, world-class teaching and performances, and incredible dancing, late, late into the evening, every night, at some of Toronto's most beautiful venues. Housing will be available for visitors coming from out of town, so don’t be shy and join us for a truly memorable weekend! Pay by October 1 and save up to $40 off the registration price.
PAUL & SHARON:
Paul Overton and Sharon Ashe have been teaching and performing Lindy Hop in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the globe for the past eight years. In that time they have built an extremely successful swing dance program based on their unique and effective style of teaching and have toured the U.S. and Europe spreading the joy of Lindy Hop. In San Francisco Paul and Sharon regularly teach over two-hundred students per month and run one of the largest weekly dance parties in town called the 9:20 Special. They have had the good fortune to teach and perform at some of the biggest and most well respected dance camps in the world including Swing Camp Catalina, Swing Out New Hampshire, and Herrang Dance Camp in Sweden. Currently, they live happily in Oakland, California with their dogs, Boyd and Pete.
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BARBARA MORRISON:
Celebrating nearly 30 years in the music industry, Barbara Morrison has performed with a virtual “who’s who” of the Jazz and the Blues worlds including legends, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Torme, Junior Mance, Tony Bennett, James Moody, Ron Carter, Etta James, Esther Phillips, David T. Walker, Jimmy Smith, Johnny Otis, Dr. John, Kenny Burrell, Terence Blanchard, Joe Sample, Cedar Walton, Nancy Wilson, Joe Williams, and Keb' Mo (Kevin Moore). A native of California, Barbara may be best known in the swing scene for her groundbreaking CD, ‘Barbara Morrison Live at the 9:20’, which has fast become the ‘Must Have’ cd for all swing DJ’s from Japan, to New York, to Montreal, to Herrang.
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THE DESIGN EXCHANGE:
Toronto's first Stock Exchange (TSE) building was designed by architects George and Moorehouse with associate S.H. Maw and completed in 1937. It combines streamlined modern, art deco and stripped classicism and in it’s time, was revered as an architectural and technological marvel; a "masterful expression of its time, place and function". After the TSE moved homes in 1983, the building was designated as a heritage property and fully restored to it’s original beauty. The renamed Design Exchange opened in 1994 and boasts incredible facilities to host any downtown function. When visitors enter the room they are taken aback by its grand scale with its gilded leaf molding and ceiling medallions, streamline modern detailing, the eight Charles Comfort murals that flank the east and west end of the space and of course it’s 6,000 square-foot trading floor, refurbished in beautiful hard wood and a dream come true for any avid swing dancer.
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