dancehalls

Living in his mother's house on Perdido Street in the black section of the Storyville neighbourhood, making a living by delivering coal, milk and newspapers, he would have heard the bands playing the new form of music – a bouillabaisse of ragtime, French quadrilles, work songs, hymns and marches – in the local "tonks", which merged the functions of bars, dancehalls, grocery stalls and bordellos.

Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

Living in his mother's house on Perdido Street in the black section of the Storyville neighbourhood, making a living by delivering coal, milk and newspapers, he would have heard the bands playing the new form of music – a bouillabaisse of ragtime, French quadrilles, work songs, hymns and marches – in the local "tonks", which merged the functions of bars, dancehalls, grocery stalls and bordellos.

Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

The main venue for the festival will be the Low Level Railway Station, magnificently transformed into a ballroom for the duration, and history buffs can go to an interactive website which has reconstructed the interiors of Wolverhampton's historic dancehalls.

This week's new dance 2011

"I would just get in a train and get off at any stop and walk around and try to talk to strangers," Mr. Hoyle says, from gigolos to people at Puerto Rican dancehalls.

One-Man Show Coming Home to San Francisco Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

Cora Crippen, better known as Belle Elmore, last graced London's dancehalls in January of 1910.

DNA upends century-old murder verdict 2011

He started his own group in Miami and introduced the Conga Line to mainstream U.S. dancehalls.

Five People Born on March 2 | myFiveBest 2010

Living in his mother's house on Perdido Street in the black section of the Storyville neighbourhood, making a living by delivering coal, milk and newspapers, he would have heard the bands playing the new form of music – a bouillabaisse of ragtime, French quadrilles, work songs, hymns and marches – in the local "tonks", which merged the functions of bars, dancehalls, grocery stalls and bordellos.

Louis Armstrong buys a cornet 2011

He said the dancehalls had taught him "that irresponsible way" of playing.

Paulo Moura obituary 2010

Instead he quickly immersed himself in Rio's musical scene, simultaneously playing in orchestras, big bands and at the many samba dancehalls that proliferated during Rio's swinging 50s.

Paulo Moura obituary 2010

The set list stuck to songs the band undoubtedly played at the dancehalls around their native Tacoma in 1966, evenly split between originals and well-worn covers like "Walkin 'The Dog," "Keep A-Knockin '," and of course the garage band anthem "Louie, Louie."

Tony Sachs: The Sonics Boom Again 2008