*     President: Pat Abbott patabt@bellsouth.net

     *     Vice President: Dana Ellis dellis@uabmc.edu

     *     Secretary/Treasurer: Shirley Widener swidener@birminghamswingdancers.com

     *     Membership Chairman: Neil Tollett neil35160@yahoo.com)

     *     Event Coordinator: Rick Alfano (ralfa1@msn.com)

     *     Hospitality Chairman: Gay Blaylock au65gcb@bellsouth.net

)    *     Hospitality/Publicity Chairman: Dan Cobb boxflash@hotmail.com

The Birmingham Swing Dancers (BSD) is a Birmingham, Alabama-based group interested in swing dance and music. BSD sponsors both live music dances and DJ dances each month. BSD live music dances feature bands from around the Southeast in different music genres, but with song lists that are very heavy in swing tempos. Whether a band plays blues, rockabilly, swing era, country, soul, rock and roll, or big band, we focus on those with swing tempos. The DJ dances feature well-known DJs from the Birmingham area with significant dance followings. DJ dances have a strong mixture of multiple swing styles - West Coast, East Coast, Jitterbug, Shag, Bop, and Lindy. BSD members are part of an amalgam of swing dance enthusiasts worldwide encouraging today's generation to bring their vibrancy and high-energy to grow the swing dance community throughout the northern Alabama area. Clink on the Membership link for information about BSD membership.

The Birmingham Swing Dancers publishes a weekly E-Newsletter with information related to swing dance and swing dance events in metro Birmingham and the north Alabama area. To receive the weekly E-Newsletter at no cost, contact swidener@birminghamswingdancers.com to have your name and email address added to the weekly E-Newsletter distribution list.

Swing music is best appreciated as dance music!

The Birmingham Swing Dancers' group dance lessons are offered weekly at Hoover Recreation Center, Hoover Municipal Complex, 600 Municipal Drive, Hoover and Riverchase United Methodist Church, 1953 Old Highway 31 Hoover (Birmingham) 35244. See the BSD Lessons tab on this web site for information.

Everyone is welcome!!!

Come and join us!!!