Speakeasy Electro Swing Montreal

Welcome to the home of the swing. We at Speakeasy Electro Swing have been working to spread the sound of swing near and far from our home base of Montreal. Members of our team have been doing these monthly events for almost 3 years and have managed to also play in Toronto, Vancouver, Boston, Paris, London, Mexico City, Berlin, Portland and Seattle. We have taken to task of teaching folks on this side of the Atlantic about the happy fun style of music that is Electro Swing. Taking cues from the last big finical collapse of 1929, we see people in similar circumstances wanting to let loose a bit to stop worrying from their everyday perils, and go out and get down to some fun and funky grooves. The sound has been growing and evolving for the last 5 years out of its main centres of the UK and France, and now is part of every major festival happening in the EU. With the best tag line coming from Nick Hollywood - "it is the music of the first Great Depression mixed with the technology of the second." We had started by doing the first monthly electro swing event in North America, which is still running, and starting to spread it further. We now have branches in Oslo, Norway, Portland, Oregon, Vancouver, Seattle, Mexico City, and more coming online soon. The heart of the organization is the 3 guys who started it off - Eli (DJ Eliazar), Tibo (Don Mescal), and our man behind the decks, the projector, and all our artwork - Khalil (VJ BXL and DJ Khalil). We have managed to bring this sound from a loft party prohibition style in the Plateau with a bathtub full of beer, to a sold out monthly at Sala Rossa that is full by 11pm every month, to playing for a crowd of 5,000 at Piknik Electronik in the summer of 2012. The one and only electro swing night in Montreal ! http://www.speakeasyelectroswing.com