Big Sky Weekend

06/17/2020

Hello dear friends! We're going to postpone this weekend's festivities a bit longer. This weekend is Juneteenth, and as a community based around art from the Black American community we've decided that we can best honor our heritage by leaving the space open for the current push that's happening across the world. We will be back at it soon though, and we'll still be compensating the artists involved in a timely way. Thanks for being such an amazing community. We can't wait to see you all on a dance floor as soon as it's wise.

05/20/2020

Going through some great memories as we're preparing for Big Sky Weekend - Online Edition, and we just had to share this Demo from 2018. So many happy dancers! Such great music! Hope it brings you a smile on this home-bound Wednesday. :)

Big Sky Weekend is a 4 day swing dance festival in the beautiful Flathead Valley of Montana. We take over Kalispell for the weekend and dance to amazing swin...

05/03/2020

Hello Friends,

We're so sorry to have to cancel Big Sky for this June, but until it's safe for us all to play together we're gonna have to hold off. We will let you know as soon as we have more information on what the next iteration will look like.

In the meantime we're reaching out to the artists we had hired for this year and making sure they don't go empty handed, and we'd love it if you could chip in to whatever part of your local swing dance scene needs some help staying afloat in these difficult times.

If you'd like to contribute to the Syncopation Foundation in particular, there are a couple ways to do that.

-We're set up on Patreon where you can chip in a little each month. We're putting up a move of the week video and collecting funds to hire out of work musicians and dancers. Patreon.com/syncopationfoundation

-You can subscribe to our YouTube channel! https://youtu.be/5cnS2nPjMj0

-If you'd like to donate to the Foundation directly you can do that at SyncopationFoundation.org/donate

Thanks so much for all of the good times in the past, and for the ones we'll have in the future! We can't wait to hit the dance floor with you all again!

01/01/2020

Our beloved Jen Hodge is repping Big Sky Weekend at Lindy Focus!

Yesterday was Day 4, and the busiest day of the event for me with 2 rehearsals, 2 performances (each with bass features), and being a guest judge for one of the dance competitions! Good thing my lovely friends and are here, working and hanging respectively, cheering loudly and slipping me the occasional pour of Scotch 😉😉 Thanks friends!! These folks are part of the team who run in Montana, which I've had the pleasure of performing at the past few years in a row. I did feature one of their t shirts last year, but this year's new design by Julia Bakke was just too darn cute for me to not throw it in this year 😃. Love you, friends, thank you so much for doing what you do!!

08/26/2019

More photos from the amazing Sereina Elwert!

08/04/2019

Here's the first batch of amazing photos by Sereina Blanchard! Thanks for joining us! Please feel free to tag your friends and give the page a like. See you next year!

07/01/2019

Sunday late night survivors! These pictures were taken between 4:30 and 5:30am! @ Kalispell, Montana

06/26/2019

The dance floor is on its way to Big Sky!

06/14/2019

Repost We can’t wait to hear these guys again! @ Kalispell, Montana

06/13/2019

Highly recommended: Sweet Peaks Ice Cream, right in the middle of all of our venues!