Groove Austin

Groove Austin Groove Austin is dedicated to providing opportunities for swing dancers to dance to groove music. "Groove" is a dancer's term, not a musical genre.

The term has less to do with the tempo of a song than with the feeling of the song. For lindy hoppers, groove music encourages a different type of connection (more "gushy") than vintage swing songs do. A sampling of the music can be heard on your Spotify Playlist. http://open.spotify.com/user/natelindydogg/playlist/6j3C1ZPN4P0k04nNTh1psu

10/21/2016

After careful consideration, Groove Austin has decided to discontinue its monthly side room at the Fed (we'll have one last Final Groove Night Extravaganza on December 22, so mark your calendars and prepare to be there).

We would like to thank:
- Everyone who joined us for the happy hour and Johnny Boyd show we helped put on a few weeks ago; that was an amazingly fun night!
- Everyone who has DJ'd our room: Thain Maurer, Matthew B Jones, Colin Glenn Wise, Reed Penney, Shane Chambers, Jason Levitt, Kristin Buxton, Ben Nathan, and Jerry Warwick.
- Ruth Calisch for helping promote our events on Facebook.
- Everyone who has attended and supported Groove Austin and our monthly night of medium tempo, post-war swing music bliss over the course of the past five years.

Groove Austin was conceived during a conversation between Nathan Malone & Titus Fortner at the Fed on October 6, 2011. A few weeks later we sent out surveys (http://svy.mk/2emsYJP) to gauge the interest in having a dance, and then got permission from the Syndicate Board to do a third side room in January 2012 for 'The Night Austin Gets its Groove Back' (http://bit.ly/2erg8aV). It was a rousing success, and we soon displaced one of the monthly fast nights in the Georgian Room at the Fed, and proceeded to have five years of a (mostly) monthly Groove night.

We feel that five years is a good run, and we'd love to end on a high note in December, so please join us!

Thank you all,
Titus & Nathan

07/26/2016

We are proud to announce that Johnny Boyd, familar to many of you as a solo artist and as the lead singer of Indigo Swing will be playing the Austin Swing Syndicate Dance at the Fed on October 6th. We will have more details available soon through this page and other channels.

A shout out to Paul Tillotson, who passed away this week, a favorite of mine and several other of the GrooveAustin DJs, ...
06/18/2016

A shout out to Paul Tillotson, who passed away this week, a favorite of mine and several other of the GrooveAustin DJs, our guest DJ Ben Nathan will be sure to play a few tracks of Thursday, 6/23 in rememberance - Nathan Malone, http://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/article84446027.html

Pianist Paul Tillotson made his mark with his dynamic music and generous spirit

05/26/2016

Groove Room tonight! DJs are Jason Levitt and Shane Chambers.

01/24/2014

We decided to call off the Groove Room tonight, the Regular Main Dance is still on, so if you are nearby, feel free to walk over to it, I promise that we will do the 2nd Anniversary soon. I headed out for Trudy's and the first thing I saw was two cars wrecking on an overpass, plus I saw the police lights related to other nearby wrecks. Reed and I have to travel from South Austin and I did not feel it was safe for us to drive. Specifically, I think driving back is going to be real concern.

Groove Room tonight at the Syndicate's Anniversary Dance!  Keep in mind, Freewheeling Bikes and its parking lot are demo...
06/14/2013

Groove Room tonight at the Syndicate's Anniversary Dance! Keep in mind, Freewheeling Bikes and its parking lot are demolished, free parking at University Towers, Pearl an 23rd.

Another great night at Groove Room, thanks Reed and Matt fir DJing.
05/10/2013

Another great night at Groove Room, thanks Reed and Matt fir DJing.

Another great crowd tonight!
02/15/2013

Another great crowd tonight!

01/11/2013

The room is packed! Thanks to everybody for coming.

12/14/2012

The December Groove Room is happening right now at the Fed, come on out.

12/11/2012

Just a quick reminder, this week we have a Groove Side Room at the Thursday Fed Dance, hope to see you there!

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