Once again the Main Ballroom of the elegant Supper Club was filled to the max with avid Swing dancers attending the Swing Ball produced by Lo-Fi Entertainment. Many of the dancers came in vintage-looking dresses and suits. There was a group of people who came all the way from Rhode Island just for the event. The dancefloor was packed and it was quite hard to dance without bumping into other people. The live music opened with Ron Sunshine and Full Swing which I totally missed because they were done playing at 9 PM which was before I got there. The main band of the evening was George Gee's Swing Orchestra. Throughout their performance several vocalists took the mic. Ron Sunshine himself also performed some vocals and played his harmonica solos. The stage had an interesting setup that looked like a fancy apartment living room on the left and the kitchen on the right. Not sure if this was done just for this event or if it was left over from some show that was going on at the Supper Club during that time, but the kitchen top fit the DJ equipment used to play music while the live bands were on break.

Several times throughout the night the DJ would announce to clear the front of the dancefloor for the World Famous Pontani Sisters. First time I heard the announcement, I thought that it would be a Swing dance performance, but as a nice diversion from the main theme of the night, it turned out to be something totally different. Three women came out in skimpy costumes resembling the ones used in Brazilian carnivals because of the huge decorations on their heads. Those decorations looked like Hershey Kisses with white feathers stuck into them. Each one of the ladies had a face of some guy attached to the those feathers. They performed a burlesque full of cute and erotic :) moves. For their next act they came out as Indians and were dancing to the breakdance music. Most of the photos I took that night were of the Pontani Sisters. Check all of them out here.

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