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Venue

Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park
679 Riverside Drive
Category

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Date

Sep 22 2024

Time

4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Formats (virtual, in person, hybrid)

In-Person

The Harlem Roots and Rhythm Urban Dance Festival 2024

Join us!  The Harlem Roots and Rhythm Urban Dance Festival 2024: Experience Harlem’s past, present and future of Dance! The Best of Harlem: Join us for exciting Dance, History, Jazz, Films, Panel, Music and Culture with the famed community FREE from September 20th – 22nd at various locations.
FULL schedule details are at www.harlemswingdance.org

*** SUNDAY Sept. 22nd ***

4PM – A Soulful Savoy Sunday starts with the premier film showing of “Fat Boy: The Billy Stewart Story” where afterwards you’ll meet the emmy award winning filmmaker Beverly Lindsay – Johnson. With a brief Q & A session

5:30 PM -There’ll be live Jazz with Gene Ghee and the Savoy 3 for your dancing, swinging and listening pleasure.

6:30PM – We Honor Harlemite Luther P. Gales for his cultural preservation efforts in the community.

7PM – Afterwards we Dance it Up HOT Harlem style with DJ Tall Guy to classics of the 20th and 21st centuries!   ALL forms of dance welcome

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Full Festival details are in the link https://www.harlemswingdance.org/harlem-roots-rhythm-urban-dance-fes-1

Please check The Harlem Swing Dance Society’s Facebook for any last minute changes.

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The Harlem Roots and Rhythm Urban Dance Festival 2024 is made possible with the help and generous grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ) and West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC).

The Harlem Swing Dance Society (THSDS) is the premiere Harlem organization (non profit) leading in preserving, promoting, propagating and protecting Lindy Hop and Swing Dance Culture in the village of Harlem where it began.