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Once again, welcome to this new feature of the Swing Street Band’s web site.
As mentioned previously, we’ve instituted this blog primarily in an effort to improve search engine rankings, so the first paragraph will always mention that Swing Street is a dynamite 9-piece swing band / big band / dance band, based in central North Carolina, and also serving parts of South Carolina and Virginia, such as: Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Pinehurst, Fayetteville, Wilmington, the Outer Banks, Florence, Myrtle Beach, and more.
Now that that’s out of the way, we’d also like to inform the world that several members of the band also offer private music lessons to interested persons of all ages. To start things off, I teach drums in Southern Pines at Moore Music. For more information about drum lessons, please see the “Teaching” page on my personal website HERE.
Several other members of the band teach in various capacities in the Raleigh area. For more information about who teaches what where, call the Swing Street office at 910-692-8839.
In other news, my wife, Mary Lou, is considering going out on a limb to purchase a local business that would put her into the fitness business, but would also give her the opportunity to begin teaching some dance classes. She has a background in dance and is especially fond of tap dancing. She’s pretty good at teaching it, also. In fact, she has been teaching yours truly and, although I’ll never be much of a dancer, we have been able to develop a couple nice little song and dance shows that we’ve been taking to local clubs, senior centers, and nursing homes. It certainly is good exercise, and we’ve been able to make a lot of folks smile over the past few months…. of course, I don’t know if they’re smiling because they enjoy the show or because they’re laughing at my feeble dancing attempts. But either way, I think we’re bringing some entertainment to some places that is doing some good.
One final item for today… One of my past-times is restoring old drums and rebuilding not-so-old drums. Then, if I’m really lucky, I am able to sell them for enough to cover my expenses and perhaps even buy a few more old drums. If you have an old drum, or some old drum parts, that you’d be willing to part with for a very low price, please contact me at the Swing Street office: 910-692-8839, or email ttbernett@nc.rr.com
Thanks to anyone who is so bored that they are actually reading all this 
Cheers, and keep swinging!!
Tom Bernett