1950s Rockabilly Party tonight! 😎

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Live Music
You may have noticed we’ve had a lot more live music to dance to this year. That doesn’t stop as we finish out April and head into May. Tonight there’s live music 1950s Rockabilly at JNO from Ross Kleiner & the Thrill from Minneapolis, MN. $10 admission includes a beginning swing dance lesson at 8:15 PM. No partner needed. Dancing til midnight.

Workshops
We’ve started offing workshops before Jitterbugs’ Night Out each week starting at 7:15 PM. No partner needed. $15 for the workshop includes admission to the dance. This is a great deal anyway, but especially on nights like tonight when we’ve got a national act playing. All the workshops are taught at a introductory level, so no experience is needed. Tonight’s workshop is Intro to Collegiate Shag. Hope to see you there.

Classes
We’ve got a couple new classes starting next week. Intro to Lindy Hop and the Big Apple on Thursday and keep your eye out for the announcement of a Balboa class starting next Friday. Also check out Intro to Swing the following Monday.

Check out more upcoming classes and workshops.

Tap Dance Festival
Omaha Jitterbugs is proud to be hosting RHYTHM WEEKEND: The First Omaha Tap Dance Festival. The event is this July, and we would love you to participate by taking classes, or volunteering to help us with the event.

Lindy in the Park
It’s Lindy in the Park Season! Starting in May, we’ll be at our usual spot on the edge of Stinson Park (Aksarben Village, 2285 S. 67th Street) for our eighteen season. Lindy in the Park will run from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (later if there is a good crowd!) every Sunday through August, and will, as always, be completely free of charge.

Omaha Gives
You probably already know that Omaha Jitterbugs is a 501(c)3 charity, and depends on the generosity of people like you to continue the programming you love. We are always happy to accept donations, and on May 25, we’re making it easy and fun for you to donate and to invite your friends and family to do the same.

Omaha Jitterbugs will once again be participating in the Omaha Gives annual Day of Giving, and this year there is a new way for you to get involved by creating and sharing a page to promote a charity that you care about. I’ll send more on this later, but in the meantime, check out the Omaha Gives website for more info.

JIVE – Volunteers are the Favorites
Omaha Jitterbug relies on an awesome team of volunteers known as JIVE (Jitterbugs Investing Volunteer Efforts – how’s that for an acronym?) to make our events happen. JIVE members enjoy discounted pricing on classes and events, not to mention that happy feeling that comes from working with friends to support a worthy cause. Speak with either our outgoing volunteer coordinator Kara Penniston or our incoming coordinator Mary Gronewold or email jive@jitterbugs.org to get involved. You will not regret it!

If you have any suggestions, comments, or ideas for Omaha Jitterbugs, or just want to talk about swing dancing in general, don’t hesitate to drop me a line or give a call.

See you on the dance floor!

Billy Sobczyk
Executive Director

New Pricing Options for Classes

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Hello my little lindyhoppers!

I’ve got some great news for you today. We’re adding some exciting new subscription plans to our existing class offerings. Presently, if you pre-register for a class through Omaha Jitterbugs website, you pay $10 a week per class. This will not change for people interested in just enrolling in a single class.

For some dancers, one class per week isn’t enough. Maybe you’re a beginner and you’re really excited about getting good quickly. Maybe you want to take both Lindy Hop and Balboa at the same time, and there’s also that routines class that you’re interested in.

Starting this month we’ll begin offering an “all-you-can-eat” package for our classes for less than the cost of two classes. If you subscribe, you’ll be able to take as many classes as you can handle that month, for one price. We’re also offering a reduced price for families with shared incomes so that couples or families with teenagers can all enroll in classes at the same time. Families with little ones might want to take advantage of this choice bring the kids to our Itsy Bitsy Jitterbugs classes.

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The advantage to this is that we can begin planning classes that match the levels of dancers that have subscribed, which means that we can offer a larger variety of classes. In the past we’ve had a hard time keeping intermediate or advanced level classes going.

When you sign up online, you’ll be enrolled to renew every month until you cancel, and you can cancel at any time. There’s a deeper discount for those who pay for a full year at once. This subscription does not include admission to Jitterbugs’ Night Out or any of our weekend workshop events, unless noted otherwise.

Someone suggested we add a premium version of the subscription that does include JNO, and we’ll consider that if this basic version goes well. Let us know what you think in the comments.

Omaha Jitterbugs