Get out those dancing shoes. Lincoln Center has just announced the lineup for Midsummer Night Swing, its annual salsa, swing, disco, tango, Gypsy jazz and folk dancing festival that takes place under the stars. This year a new dance floor has been installed at the band shell in Damrosch Park on West 62nd Street.
A lottery, which you can enter at midsummernightswing.org, will be used to allocate tickets for opening night on June 27, a Monday. The next evening, the 28th, is a tribute to “Soul Train” with the saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis and the trombonist Fred Wesley along with Martha High and Fred Ross. Tyrone Proctor, an original “Soul Train” dancer, will be on hand to instruct and Biz Markie will be the D.J.
Festival bands include the Rio samba singer Diogo Nogueira, Germany’s Ray Collins’ Hot Club, and the Palmetto Bug Stompers from New Orleans. On July 14, Bastille Day, there will be electro-swing from Paris with Caravan Palace and a French Revolution costume contest.