The April in Paris at Midnight Ball

Description

Join us at the April in Paris at Midnight Ball, recreating the exciting world of Paris in the 1920's, at the San Mateo Masonic Lodge ballroom. After a dance lesson at 7pm, the celebrated Baguette Quartette plays an evening of elegant French vintage ballroom dance music, including their many irresistible waltzes. 1920's costume or vintage or modern evening dress is admired but not required. Event includes a no-host bar and a light French snack buffet. For information, call (510) 522-1731 or see the ball website at http://www.peers.org/paris.html
Tickets are $15 in advance (by March 30); $20 at the door.

Complete Details:

The April In Paris at Midnight Ball
(Paris in the 1920's)
(Sponsored by the Period Events & Entertainments Re-Creation Society)
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Masonic Lodge of San Mateo Ballroom
100 N. Ellsworth Avenue (at the corner of Ellsworth & Tilton)
San Mateo, CA 94401
Doors Open: 6:45pm
Dance Lesson: 7:00 pm
Formal Dancing begins at 8:00pm
Band: The Baguette Quartette
Tickets: $15.00 in advance (by March 30, 2013)
Tickets at the Door: $20.00
Ball Website: http://www.peers.org/paris.html

Join the American expatriate crowd and our Parisian friends for a dance party at a swinging Parisian nightclub with vintage ballroom dance music by the divine Baguette Quartette. Talk modern art, literature, music, dance, film and social change while waltzing the night away to the most exquisite Bal Musette music in the City of Light. Expected guests could include just about anyone from Scott and Zelda, Hemingway, and gracious Edith Wharton (congratulations on that Pulitzer Prize for "Age of Innocence," darling!) to Colette, Picasso, and perhaps even the ravishing Josephine Baker. Whether you're a member of the Lost Generation or one of their critics or just a tourist out slumming, you'll enjoy this lively evening in the world of Paris at Midnight.

After a vintage ballroom dance lesson at 7pm, the Baguette Quartette plays elegant and exhilarating waltzes, tangos, one steps, fox trots, polkas, javas (club version of the mazurka waltz), and even some French country dances (set dance will be briefly taught and called). And the Quartette's very French version of "The Congress of Vienna Waltz" is divine indeed!

At intermission, we'll listen and dance to the swinging recorded music of Cole Porter and other popular artists of the Jazz Age.

Costumes from 1920-1930, or vintage or modern evening dress is admired but not required. Avant-garde artists, writers, Show People, Apaches, working class Parisians, and even slumming upper class types are all welcome, but, as always at PEERS, period costumes are not required.

Will there be a bar? But of course! There will also be a light, French-American snack buffet (Your potluck contributions would be most welcome!).


To order advance tickets, please send a check for $15 each to the following address:
PEERS
2144 B Buena Vista Avenue
Alameda, CA 94501

Tickets are also available through PayPal, and you may use the convenient PayPal link on the ball website at http://www.peers.org/paris.html The deadline for advance ticket purchases is Saturday, March 30. Tickets will be also be available at the door at $20.00 each.
If you have any questions, please call (510) 522-1731 or email us at [email protected]

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http://www.peers.org/paris.html

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510.522.1731 (Box Office)

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