A show with the Lindy Hop Dance Company and The Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm and Singers recreating the dance and music of 1920s New York's Cotton Club.
The Lindy Hop Dance Company are coming to Salisbury Arts Centre on Friday 29 January 2027, with Swinging at the Cotton Club — a show that takes you back to 1920s New York and Harlem's Cotton Club, the era's most iconic nightclub. They aren't on their own, either: they're sharing the stage with The Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm and Singers, who provide the live big band sound. Together they're recreating the music and the dance of the Roaring Twenties.
To get why that particular club matters, you only need to look at the names that passed through its doors. The Cotton Club's stage hosted Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Fats Waller, while dancers like Bojangles Robinson and the Nicholas Brothers lit up the floor. It was the centre of the jazz age in Harlem, and the show is built around that specific world.
What you'll see on the night is the dance and the music brought back to life. The Lindy Hop Dance Company handle the choreography, and The Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm and Singers provide the live big band sound, so the two work together to stage the sound and the step of the 1920s. It's a recreation of that particular New York scene, with the dancing and the music running side by side rather than one just backing the other.
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It's a Friday night show, starting at 7:30pm at Salisbury Arts Centre in Salisbury. If you've got a soft spot for the jazz age, it's one worth keeping on your radar.
