Spring Swing at Ivy Station 🔥

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Spring Swing at Ivy Station

Swing into spring with an afternoon of New Orleans traditional jazz courtesy of the Big Butter Jazz Band on Saturday, April 27 from 1-3pm. Bring a blanket for the lawn and enjoy coffee or lunch from one of our on-site restaurants or swing dance on the plaza with a free intro dance lesson from L.A. Jitterbug offered between sets (around 1:45pm). All ages are welcome.

This is a free event with free 2-hour parking validation available upon request. Food and beverages are available for purchase from Equator Coffees, Health Nut, Sweetfin, Los Angeles Ale Works, Canopy Club, and Prima Donna, all located at Ivy Station.

This programming was created in part through the City of Los Angeles Arts Development Fee Program, Department of Cultural Affairs.

About Big Butter Jazz Band:

The Big Butter Jazz Band is dedicated to playing New Orleans Traditional (aka Trad) jazz and Swing jazz. Standards and songs from the 1900’s-1930’s and Tin Pan Alley, back from the times when jazz was still dance music. Whether you call it—Trad, early jazz, hot jazz, Dixieland, New Orleans jazz, or vintage jazz—it’s full of beautiful melodies, infectious energy, and a pulsing rhythm that you can’t help but dance to. The band was founded in 2013 and has been playing restaurants, bars, festivals, special events, jazz festivals and swing dances all around Southern California ever since.

Drawing inspiration from the musicians of the past as well as the young New Orleans bands on Frenchmen Street, they’ll get your feet shuffling, head bobbing, fingers snapping, and body moving with their hard-driving rhythm section and hot ensemble choruses. Big Butter is delighting LA’s swing dance crowd and many others with their hot speakeasy sounds.

https://www.bigbutterjazzband.com/

https://www.instagram.com/bigbutterjazzband/

About L.A. Jitterbug:

https://www.lajitterbug.com/

About Ivy Station:

Eat, drink, shop, and stay at Ivy Station, Culver City’s newest mixed-use destination. In addition to exploring a curated and expanding mix of shops and restaurants, visitors can enjoy the lawn and gardens and participate in a variety of free community events.

Now open at Ivy Station: Canopy Club, Carbon Health, Equator Coffees, Health Nut, Healthy Spot, Los Angeles Ale Works, Mayweather Boxing + Fitness, milk + honey, Prima Donna, Solidcore, Starlight the Carwash, Sweetfin, The Shay, Upper Ivy Residences, Warner Bros. Discovery, and YogaSix.

https://ivystationculvercity.com/

https://www.instagram.com/ivystationculvercity/

Posted by Ivy Station on 04/03/2024


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About the Venue: Ivy Station

Ivy Station is a residential and retail complex at the Culver City stop of the Expo Line. For a while now they’ve featured the Big Butter Jazz Band playing a free outdoor concert from 1 to 3 PM one Saturday per month. The area is mostly grass but there are some concrete areas to dance in. There is often a free dance lesson from a respected local Swing instructor.

Bring a towel and hang out on the grass between sets!

To get free parking, you’ll need to find a roaming employee who hands out parking validations.

Quick Facts

When One Saturday per month 1-3PM
Cost FREE!
Crowd Local Swing dancers
Dress Casual
Floor Concrete
Website Ivy Station Public Events

8840 National Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232


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