HfK Jazzclub: Swing dance evening
The Klaus Kuhnke Institute for Popular Music and the Jazz Department of the University of the Arts Bremen are organising a swing dance evening together with historians from the transnational project group ‘Nazi Injustice “Degenerate Music”’.
The event starts at 8pm with a panel discussion, during which contemporary witnesses from the 1940s and 1950s will also give their accounts.
From 9 p.m., the nationally renowned Hamburg band ‘Bun-Jon & The Big Jive’ will be playing to get everyone dancing.
In addition to swing music, early rock'n'roll music will also be played, inviting you to swing and jive.
BUN-JON & THE BIG JIVE
Starting in 2011 with the idea to create a band to serve the needs of Lindy and Boogie dancers “Bun-Jon & The Big Jive“ developed very fast to a well known Swing’n Jive band. Coming from Hamburg they play now on various events all over Europe. Tunes from their last album "Swing Dance Party" are played on dance parties all over the world.
Their performance and fresh sound thrills listeners and dancers immediately. Songs from Louis Jordan, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles to even Ray Collins belong to the repertoire. They have the golden rule that if it has Swing, Groove, Drive and Jive – they’ll play it and Bun-Jon, as a swing dancer himself, knows how to send the beat straight to your feet.
Udo Kern & Michael Nix (Horn Section)
Georg Sheljasov (Piano)
Guido Jäger (Double Bass)
Matthias Friedel (Drums)
Markus Bak (Guitar)
Bun-Jon Winkelmann (Vocals)
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The "hfk jazzclub" is the venue for contemporary jazz in Bremen. Concerts and sessions with musicians from the university and local and national musicians take place every Tuesday of the semester at 9 pm in the basement vault of the University of Music. Passionate jamming takes place here, or student tryout programmes are presented. Semester projects by the Rehearsal Band and themed concert programmes are also on offer. In short: a think tank for jazz and a meeting place for Bremen's jazz scene.
Admission
Normal: 5 Euro
HfK students: 2 euros
Tickets are available at the box office from 8 pm
Important information
The HfK is barrier-free to a limited extent at the Dechanatstraße location.
The entire building is fully accessible via two lifts, in the west wing and in the middle wing, from the basement to the 2nd floor. Due to a height offset on the ground floor, the toilet for people with limited mobility can only be reached barrier-free from the entrance via the basement and the 1st floor.
Public disabled parking spaces are designated on the street immediately adjacent to the courtyard entrance. In addition, a disabled parking space can be allocated on the premises by the caretakers and the security service. The colleagues can be reached by telephone at +49 421 9595-1400.
