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About Winter Warmer
It all starts here! Blues, beer, and a band!​
Get into the swing of things with our dance-packed Saturday.
​Two gigs and a swingin' tea-dance finishes our awesome weekend.
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Sunday
CAKE! GIGS! What a frightfully civilised way to spend a day!​
Sunday Afternoon
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We have a relaxed and cake-filled Sunday for you in a wonderful venue with dancing, tea and coffee and vintage films.

​3pm: Come on down to Walkley Community Centre on Fir street:
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There will be cake.
There will be dancing.
There will be music.
There will (not) be blood.
You'll like it; come on over.
Sunday Evening

Following the delicious dancing day we have the energetic evening events!
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TWO bands will play for your aural amusement:

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​8pm: Sheffield's own Lolly and the Resonators

​9pm: Kingston Swing's Alfred Jarry and the Debonairs

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them…guests of the Sheffield Winter Warmer 2012 should prepare to witness greatness in the Sunday night headline act, The Kingston Swing Band.
This band came together out of a shared desire to have a live band for swing dances that doesn’t cost and arm a leg…they’d cleverly noticed that most dancers are using all their arms and legs and felt this was too high a price. They’ll treat you to a set of classic swing songs and instrumentals delivered with style, vigour and aplomb.
Meester Bruce, the bandleader, was raised as a bear cub on the Central Asian steppes before, at the age of three, he was found by a slave trader and brought to the docklands of Kingston Upon Hull. It was here that he came into the tender care of Madam Jinx, an ageless and mysterious figure, feared and respected in equal measure by all on the North East Coast Of England.*
Typical of the Sheffield Lindy Hop scene, this band combines a love of dancing with a passion for pushing at the boundaries of established music genres. Drawing on diverse influences including rockabilly, classic rock, punk rock, Jamaican rock-steady and heavy metal, Lolly & The Resonators will tempt you to drop the triple-steps and swing those petticoats while knocking out chorus after chorus that just beg you to swing-out. If you think that sounds like a tall tale, trust us...three-fifths of the band are Lindy Hoppers.
Despite being a committed vegetarian, the eponymous vocalist spent part of her life living on a remote Japanese desert island completely stripped of vegetation. She survived only on canned fruit, salvaged from ships wrecked on the rocks as their crews were irresistibly drawn toward her siren-like song. A ship-board flyer for a Lindy Hop dance was the only thing that tempted her back to her native shores.*

* Not everything you read in these write-ups is true
Lolly and the Resonators
Alfred Jarry and the Debonairs
