Archived Page:
Venue and Event Listing (old collection page)
No longer kept current

Also:
Pictures from former venues (At bottom of page under the heading, "Gone.")

Nightspots

• Various Locations
• Midwest Singles Fri/Sun nights
• KC Ballroom Dance Club Holiday Ball 2000 70kb
• Downtown (or near):
• Del Rio Bar & Grill 40k, SW Blvd, KCMO
• Denim & Diamonds, North Kansas City, MO 38.4k
• Oasis June 99, 42k
• Oasis, 53k,  sold NovDec98 to Taqueria Mexicana
• Summer Swing, 43k, Tried swing for three weeks, it didn't work
• Phat Tue Hip-Hop 30k, Tuesday nights
• La Fonda El Taquito 34k, Friday nights
• Science City (Swingin' Sundays) 40k, Crown Center area
• 12th Street Lounge 40k, Downtown Marriott Hotel
• East:
• Ararat Ballroom Dance 40.9k, KCMO, east side
• Fat Chance Bar and Grill  48k, Independence, Hwy 291
• Funky Town xxk, KCMO, east side
• Lafferty's, 49.1k, KCMO

• Johnson County, Olathe:
• American Bandstand,Overland Park, KS 66.9k
• Amer. Bandstand, Dance Contest 1 June 99, 46k
• The Blue Note Cafe, Overland Park, KS
• El Caribe - Spring 1999 (42k), August 2000 (49k)
• Muriel Kaufmann Swing Dance benefit for Johnson County Volunteers
• Orlando's Nightclub,Olathe, KS
• Raoul's Velvet Room (swing), Raoul's 1998, Overland Park, KS
• Stanley's Bait Shack, Overland Park, KS
• Touché Nightclub, Overland Park, KS
• Lawrence:
• Bottleneck 57.6k (Sunday's Swing Set)
• Flamingo Dance Studio 40k (Sunday dance)
• Plaza:
• The Club at Plaza III - 40k
• North
• Clay-Platte Senior Dancers - at North Cross Methodist (sep99)
• North East:
• Jersey's Sports Cafe in Independence
• South KC:
• Tasso's Greek Restaurant, KC, MO
• South East:
• Joshua's Disco, Holiday Inn, Grandview 41.9k
• John Knox Pavilion - 50k, ballroom/multipurpose, Lee's Summit
• King Pin Bar & Grill, Belton, MO 34.2k
• West & KCK
• Westport, Midtown:
• Beaumont 38k
• The Grand Emporitum
• The Grand Emporium May 1998 swing (Big Six & Indigo Swing playing) 84.9k
• Sept 1998 Swing Series (Big Six night)
• 1st regular Sunday Swing 25oct98 (Jeffrey Lee & the Pale Moon Kings playing)
• 1st round of Blast From the Past swing contest at Grand Emporium 27 Dec 98
• Harling's Upstairs 66.8k
• Have a Nice Day Cafe 51k
• The Hurricane
• The Hurricane 89.7k,
• Hurricane #2
• The Levee 74.8k
• McCoy's Public House - Salsa Sunday - 45k - No more Salsa Sundays
• The Westport Beach Club - Patrick Shannon Aug 2000 44k

Events

• City in Motion's Dance In The Park (Sept 8, 2001)
• Angentine Tango and Vals Cruzado workshop with Alberto and Valorie Paz 6,7,8 Oct 2000
• Heartland Dance Festival Sept 21-24, 2000
• Weekly dance at Flamingo Dance Studio (Lawrence) - 11 June 2000
• Monthly Dance at Flamingo Dance Studio (Overland Park) - Sept1999 41
• National Tap Dance Day - 25 May 2000 Overland Park
• Leonard Reed Tribute - Bruce Watkins Cultural Center 6 May 2000
  
• No Place: Karen Hedges Muscular Dystrophe Dance Benefit 29aug99
• Tango Workshop with Roxanne McKenney July 9-11, at Ballroom Unlimited
• Tango Practica - Midwest Argentine Society July 11, 1999 at Mi Cocina
• Pictures from Beata Howe Workshop at KC Swing Dance Club June 18,19,20 - Beata's Home Page
• Muehlbach Hotel KFEZ big-band Swing with Dave Stephens 50k
• Dance Contest finals at American Bandstand 1 June 1999, 46k
• City in Motion: Hip-Hop class (winter 1999 session, April-June) 45K
• Midwest Argentine Society's Diego Alvaro Tango Workshop May 22-23,1999
• Blast From The Past movie swing contest: KC area semi-final Sun 17 Jan 99 55k

Preliminary Round Competitions: 27 Dec 1998 - Grand Emporium, 3 Jan 1999 - Station Casino, 6 Jan 1999 - Rodehouse Ruby's South, 15 Jan 1999 - KC Swing Dance Club
• Swingtime Canteen - Christmas, 1944, musical at American Heartland Theater nov98 - 10jan99
• HeartlandDance Festival and KC Swing Challenge Oct 22-25 1998 at the airport Hilton
• Michelle Kinkaid West-Coast Swing Workshop at KCSDC Sept 1998
• No Place: Karen Hedges Muscular Dystrophe Line Dance Blowout 30aug98
• Dave Stephens' "Swing Out" CD Release Party 30aug98 at The Hurricane
• Beata Howe Workshop 14-16 August 1998 at KCSDC
• Big Band Dance - Steve Miller Orchestra & Volunteer Center of Johnson Cty.
• Wedding Dance, 14 June 1998, Randy Weinstein and Ellen Walterscheid
• KCSDC: 50's Greaser Dance 69.9k, 12 June 1998
• Bob Bahrs and Susan Stone pre-workshop exhibition 12 June 1998
• IRS (Internal Reunion Swing) Dance (136K total) Page 1, Page 2, Friday 17 April 98 - at KCSDC clubhouse
• Swing workshop with Robert Cordoba and Deborah Szekely Feb27,28/Mar1/98
• The Affair of the Heart Valentine's (USABDA-KC) Benefit, Feb 12 1998 at Walter's
• Debbie Ramsey - Wesley Boz Jan30,31/Feb1/1998 workshop at KCSDC
• Early-bird dance (Page 1, Page 2) at KCSDC for Heartland Dance Festival (Oct 17-19)
• Michelle Kinkaid Swing Workshop (5-7 Sep 1997 ) [Michelle's web page]
• Jack 'n Jill at the Michelle Kinkaid workshop
• Swing Competition (19 Aug 1997)
• Angela Rice Workshop - ballet movements (19 June 1997)
• Swing up North Dance - June 1997

Gone or Changed Owners, Name, Music, etc.

• Adolfo's Discotheque, 114.3k (closed April 2000, after a little more than two years - Same owners own Trago across the street and intend to open in the old Adolpho's location as Club Chemical - perhaps fall 2000? - )
• American Legion Joe Walker Big Band, Blue Springs,MO 42k
• Atlantis 41k (now OX as of April 1998- same owners and management)
• Banana Joe's, Olathe, KS (in The Great Mall of the Great Plains) 34k
• Barlows Blues Cafe 40k, SW Blvd, KCMO, started April 1999 (was Liquid Lounge, became Liquid again Sept 99)
• Club 427 33k, Club 427's web site:
• Club 727, Kansas City, KS 49k
• Club Evos 40k, 12th & Central west bottoms, KCK
• Crown Center Hotel Lobby Lounge 33.7k (closed out, Wes Winters at Marriott Downtown's 12th Street Lounge as of 16 April 1999)
• Fountain Cafe 47.2k (closed)
• Hilltop West, 94.7k (out of business)
• The Kansas City Club, 35k, (with KC Ballroom Dance Club)
• Life, 38k, 21 East 10th, disco/DJ, cafe and dance club
• Liquid Lounge, Jan1999 42k - changed ownership and name (to Barlows Blue Cafe), didn't work, tried to changed name back to Liquid Lounge but the damage was done and gone
• Mama Chang Restaurant HOSTING Tropicalisimo Club: page #1, page #2 prev-club LaPachanga, Shawnee, KS
• Maniax (Latino night), 40k, Independence, Hwy 40
• Monaco - 58k (28 Juli 2000, Grupo Niche) - Burned down in fall 2001
• No Place 96.3k, Grain Valley, MO (became Shooters 21)
• Quincy's 78.6k, Adam's Mark Hotel (closed fall 1999 - and still had packed crowds)
• Radcliff's (Radisson Hotel), Overland Park, KS (closed Oct 3 2000, hotel remodeling, no intention of keeping the club on the top of the hotel. Became Holiday Inn.)
  • KC Swing Dance Club Feb99
  • KC Swing Dance Club at Radcliff's 1998
• Razoo II, Bashor, KS 40k
• Ritz-Carlton Hotel's.. Rooftop Lounge (now using the lobby lounge instead), (now the Fairmont)
• Ritz-Carlton Hotel:.. Lobby Lounge (now the Fairmont)
• River Market Brewery 32k (still here but their short experiment with swing is no more)
• Roadhouse Ruby's, Olathe, KS: Killed by by regulations from anti-dancing foes from Nazarene college in Olathe (nasty church-state separation problem, the church-college controls Olathe's government) (No More Swing Wednesday) Wed.Swing 15jul98
• Station Casino (Sunday Swing Dance)
• The Supreme Bean  coffeehouse ( first, no more swing, then moved )
• 39 on Main 35k - No More Swing Here (closed July 1999)
• Shooters 21 36k, Grain Valley, MO (formerly No Place)
• Spark Bar - 40k (28oct2k)
• The Speakeasy - 45k (25 Sep 2000 Swing) 5 minutes NE of downtown
• Trago 35k, 1108 Grand (private parties only now)