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Kyle Smith

Los Angeles, CA - Kyle Smith, currently of Los Angeles, has been a part of the swing community as a DJ, dancer, teacher, and lecturer for almost 10 years. His DJ career includes head DJ titles at such well known events as All Balboa Weekend (4 years), Eastern Balboa Championships (4 years) and Camp Hollywood (6 years). Kyle brings a sincere passion for music to every event he attends, matched only by his excellence in song vocabulary. Constantly aspiring for greatness, Kyle puts his heart and soul into every song he chooses.

Alex Nah

Alex is an avid balboa dancer and a fan of all things that swing.

His dj'ing began with the SF Swing Challenge competition at the famed Broadway Studios in San Francisco in 2003. Afterwards, he was one of the rotating dj's for Tuesday Night Jump at Broadway studios until its relocation in 2004.

Since then, he has dj'd the balboa competitions and late night dance during Boogie By the Bay in 2004/2006, the SF Balboa Festival 2006, 200 Grand in Oakland, the "Classic Swing Room" at the Dog House, Hep Cat Jump at the Metronome Ballroom, and co-dj'ed at the 9:20 Special in San Francisco. Internationally, he dj'd regularly at swing dance clubs such as Hello Swing, Club Fiesta and the Swing Bar in Seoul Korea.

In 2007, Alex was invited to dj the late night and Saturday afternoon dances at the Sacramento Lindy Exchange, the band breaks for the Glenn Miller Orchestra on the USS Hornet as well as the San Francisco Shag Jam. He is one of the rotating dj's at Swing Central in Redwood City and a frequent guest dj at the Verdi Club in SF.

Eddie Gutman

Some might consider Eddie the next coming of Jimmy Savile, the worlds first jazz dance DJ. Those who are "in the know" know that's complete and utter rubbish, but he does seem to know what he's doing nonetheless. A dancer for 78 fortnights and DJ for a third of that, Eddie's fame is sure to last at least two kilowarhals. When asked by his throngs of adoring fans what he liked to play at a dance, Eddie famously quoted Eddie Condon by saying "We called it music."

Scott Kaufman

Scott has been DJing for 9 years and is the head DJ at Midtown Stomp. He has also been the house DJ at the Davis Graduate and Splitfire Bar and Grill as well as spinning sets at the Tower Club, the Marquis, Decades, Confucius Hall, Swing Time at the Spotlight, the Sacramento Lindy Exchange (2002 and 2004), The San Francisco Lindy Exchange (2004), Lindy Ball (2003), Reno Dance Sensation (2004,2005,2006), and the Sacramento Swing Festival (2003). In the DJ Booth he's always ready to stir the pot with an eclectic mix of music. From Count Basie to Gene Harris he plays a wide range of music to keep the crowd on their toes...er balls of their feet.

Cid Galicia

Cid Galicia has been djing for a 2 years now; beginning with house parties and then, under the tutelage of Scott Kaufman and Ron Thompson, djing lindy nights at Midtown Stomp. The genres Cid djs are lindy and blues, specializing and spending time in the study of their music, artists, and history. Cid is always searching for new versions of classic songs. He has djed such events as the day dance at the Utah Lindy Exchange, Reno Dance Sensation, and Friday Night Blues. Cid is currently djing Luke Scherba's Tuesday Night Lindy and Blues night titled "Up in the Kitchen" at his new dance studio: Studio One.

Jose Amaral

Jose has been DJing since late 1996 when he started going to private parties as a hobby playing Hip Hop, Trance, House and other electronic music.  As one of the few first to merge into digital audio he continued doing his mixing all with CD turntables, which was rare at that time.  He joined the Institute Of Art And Multimedia, Los Angeles. To study, Audio and Video Editing, Graphics and Web design and have been doing it now since 2002.

Jose joined the Memories Family in october of 2003 in the "Beyond The Basics" lessons instructed by Essex and Lee. In April of 2004 he joined the
"Memories Swing Team" and remained there until the end of 2006.

During 2004, Jose started assisting with the sound equipment Friday nights for the LIVE band nights, setting up and running the Soundcraft Spirit LIVE soundboard with 24 CH. and later became the main sound engineer for Live band nights.

Cassie Wicken

Cassie currently lives in Baltimore where she teaches and DJ’s for Baltimore’s primary Swing dance organization, and at the John Hopkins University.  In the two years Cassie has been DJing, she has DJed in numerous cities on both the East and West Coasts of the US, including Bay Area venues Swing Central and Friday Night Blues.  Internationally she has DJed at the Australian national event Canberrang and the Tasmania Lindy Exchange, as well popular venues in Melbourne and Adelaide.  Being a Lindy Hop, Blues and Charleston dancer, Cassie brings to the DJ booth passion for a wide range of music styles and tempos; from slow Blues to fast Swing and Trad Jazz. 

Martin Beally

When Martin (aka LindyChef) steps into the booth and spins, there's no hidden agenda, just a desire to get into the groove. It usually results in a fantastic blend of slide guitar, hot jass and R&B, with a good amount of soul and gospel sprinkled into the mix.

Back in the Pacific Northwest you can often find him spinning at a house party or Seattle's regular blues venues, Blues Underground, Burn Blue and Un Vondredi Bleu. Martin is also a proud founder of the Emerald City Blues Festival and is excited to bring it back to Seattle for its fourth year this November.