Jerry has been DJing at Lindy and Blues events for the last 6 years. In addition to various Lindy Exchanges, he has DJ'ed Blues in St. Louis, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Houston, Raleigh, etc., etc.

His sets are heavily influenced by Texas blues music, as you would expect. He also uses vocals extensively in his sets.

In addition to spinning her fave Lindy, Blues and West Coast Swing tunes in Austin and at various dances and workshops across the country, Tina has been a featured DJ at the following events:
South Florida Lindy Exchange (2004 - 2007)
Austin Lindy Exchange (2004 - 2006)
Toronto Lindy Exchange (2004 & 2006)
Down Home Blues (2005 & 2006)
The Rhythmic Arts Festival (2005 & 2006)
STLBX & Cheap Thrills (2004 - 2006)
Red, White and Blues (2005 & 2006)

Tina was also a co-DJ for the Yehoodi Radio Show in May 2005 with Houston DJ Kristina Arscott. Tina currently hosts a monthly blues dance in Austin, Texas called “The Back Room.” Tina spins a mix of styles, but it’s all got to be funky

Bryan's love for dancing came as quite a surprise to those that knew him in his early years. Growing up, he couldn't have found a beat if his life depended on it. Rhythm found him in college, rapidly leading to his introduction to swing dancing. After a three year period of very little dancing, his company transported him to Seattle, where he led two lives: a consultant by day, learning lindy hop by night.

Blues stole his heart at Cheap Thrills 2006, which provided him his first real blues classes. Since then, he's become a clinically diagnosed blues addict, traveling everywhere he can to get the next blues fix.

He has taught and DJ'd at events from coast to coast. When DJing, Bryan spins a variety of styles, feeling the vibe of the dancers and taking them on a journey. His goal is to play a set that keeps you happily on the dance floor, challenging you to play with the music, making sure you're having a great time.

He dances for the same reason he DJs and teaches -- to have fun.

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Originally from Chicago, Jeff grew up listening and playing at the age of 10 to the sounds of Glenn Miller, Dave Brubeck, and Louis Jordan. Who knew decades later he’d be dancing to the same songs. Now after transplating to Virginia Beach, he got hooked on the swing dance scene in 2001. He is part of the swing dance scene as promoter, instructor, DJ, performer, and student. He started SwingVirginia.com in 2002 simply as a listing of events, but has grown into the Hampton Roads area's leading swing dance resource for lessons, dances, workshops, concerts, and public swing dance exhibitions.

Having Chicago Blues in his heart, he easily got hooked into Blues Dance after his first exchange's late night blues room and all went to Hell after that. He made his DJ debut in 2002 at the local workshops and swing nights and has been the house DJ since 2004. With his lack of sleep he continues to grow his 40,000+ song-library and to find some of the sweetest songs and grooviest jookin’ sounds. So plan on keeping your butt on the dance floor all night long as he’ll crank out the traditional songs to modern faves, plus his curveball songs that make you say "What the hell is this? But hey, let's dance!”

He's DJed at local Va Beach Lindy Exchanges 03-07, Dirt Cheap Blues events 05-08, Fall Fling, plus workshops/dance nights/house parties. He took his blues DJing to new levels at the GargleblasterBlues House Party/Workshop ’06 to packed houses and painted the walls all sorts of blue. He also kept the groove alive at Atlanta’s Enter The Blues ’07 & ’08, Raleigh-Durham Lindy Party 07, Richmond’s Blues House Parties, St. Pete’s SwingDance USA ’07, and Dallas’s Blues Boot Camp ’07. Keep a look out for him in '08 at Mystic Blues (CT), Dirt Cheap Blues (VA) and Blues Boot Camp (TX), SwingDanceUSA (FL) and who knows where else.

Greg Avakian has been teaching swing since 1992. He and his partner, Laurie Zimmerman have been dancing together for over 9 years.

They specialize in Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, and Blues Dancing. In addition, Greg is a popular DJ, having spun music for dancers at exchanges, competitions, and other events across the USA, in Canada and Europe. Greg has also been the DJ Coordinator for the American Lindy Hop Championships. For a long list of events, see Greg's website.

Greg's style of Blues mixes very groovy/jazzy blues and other sweet & funky stuff. His basic philosophy is that a song must either have some ass-swaying breathless sexiness or some humor - or it ain't good Blues Dancing music.

Locally, Greg & Laurie teach at 3 different locations, host Philadelphia's Kaffa Cafe Blues dances and Greg is the house DJ at Philadelphia's most popular weekly dance: Lindy and Blues (LaB).

Andrew came to the scene by the way of JMU back in 2005 and has jumped on board ever since. He brings out great ideas and is a marketing asset to keep our scene alive.

He also DJs and keeps our dancers on their toes with a great array of traditional and fun songs to keep dancers guessing as to what is next on his playlist.

He also started the area's forum:

Are You Hep to The Jive?

A must to join for Dirt Cheap travel correspondences and logistics. The forum is where we bring up several topics from local events, to national to some fun stuff going on in the area, or if you just want to chat about some cool moves you saw.

Corey started dancing in 1998 in Orlando, FL during his time in the Navy. Unfortunately, the Navy had other uses for him once his training in Orlando was finished and stationed him in locations that didn't have a swing scene.

So even though he had been bitten by the dancing bug, he wasn't able to continue dancing until he was discharged from the Navy. In 2005, in Memphis, TN, he came back into contact with swing dancing through Red Hot Lindy Hop (www.rhlh.org) and has danced off and on since then while living in Memphis, TN; Kansas City, MO; Santa Clara, CA; and once again back in Memphis, TN.

During that time frame, he started DJing and has been a featured DJ at numerous events including: MOKAN Swing 2007, KCLX 2007, Bluesalicious 2008, and can be found later this year at MOKAN Swing.