Live Music & DJ Line-Up - Track Town Throwdown

– Musicians –

– Band Leaders –

Shane Allen

Since the age of 16, Shane Allen has been a working musician and dedicated student of the jazz tradition, blessed with the opportunity to learn from modern giants as well as classic masters.
After graduating from the acclaimed jazz program at Houston, TX’s High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Shane was a four-year staple member of St. Olaf College’s top jazz band, which won Downbeat Magazine’s Best Large Ensemble award in 2011.
Since graduating, he has worked as a modern/ballet dance accompanist, played for lindy hop house parties in Minneapolis, and haunted the many late night jams at Herräng Dance Camp.

Stomp Off Party is Shane’s love letter to classic, rowdy, four-on-the-floor swing dance music. Collaborative and community-focused, these groups swing the standards with depth and vibrancy, bringing together voices from all corners of the Eugene jazz community (and beyond!) They are polyphonic and multigenerational, delivering riffs and rhythms tuned expressly for dancing.

-DJs-

Nick Davis

Nick Davis (aka DJ Nick at Night) began dancing in 1998 and discovered Lindy Hop in 2002.

Since founding Eugene, Oregon’s Track Town Swing in 2012, Nick has traveled around the globe to hone his dancing skills.

He was the 2014 Frankie Manning Foundation Ambassador to Herräng Dance Camp in Sweden.

When not at home with his wife and daughter, Nick can be found teaching at Oregon State University or DJing at events like Camp Jitterbug, Lindy Bout, Midwest Lindy Fest, Lindy Focus, Herrang Dance Camp or Beantown. He believes working to bring communities together is his true life calling.