Monday Dancing

(Also see Bay Area Dance Venues.)

Weekly

Live Music

• Eli’s Mile High Club, Blue Monday, Oakland, 7 to 11pm, $0, 21+.
• Local Edition, Market at New Montgomery, SF, 8:30 to 11:30pm, $0, 21+.
• The Saloon, 1232 Grant Ave, SF, between Fresno and Vallejo, $0. Mitch Polzak monthly.
• Beach Chalet, SF, jazz (and prime rib), 5 to 7pm.

DJ

• Shades, Polish Club, 3040 22nd St, San Francisco, 8 to 9pm lesson, 9pm to 12am dance, $6 to 10 dance.
• Neck of the Woods, Salsa Crazy, 406 Clement Street, SF, salsa lessons 7pm to 8:30pm, dancing 8:30pm to 1:30am, dance only $10 adv $20 atd, 21+.

Monthly

• Community Jam at SFJAZZ, Joe Henderson Lab, SF, 7 to xpm, free.
• The Freight, Open Mic, 1st Monday, Berkeley, 7:30pm, free.
• Temple Israel, Dave’s Swingtime Big Band under David Altschuler, 3183 Mecartney Rd, Alameda, last Monday, 7:30 to 10pm, $5.

Afar

• Richard Kear at Dance Boulevard, 1824 Hillsdale Ave, San Jose, 7 to 9pm lessons, 9pm to 12am, $16 dance.

Archive

• Monday
• Mr. Tipple’s Recording Studio, 39 Fell St (between Van Ness and Polk), San Francisco.  Live jazz, 7pm – 10pm, $0.
• Stompy Jones at Lake Merritt Dance Center, 200 Grand Ave, Oakland, 7 – 9:30pm Lindy and Balboa lessons, live band Stompy Jones, 8 – 10:30pm, $15.
• Legionnaire Saloon, 2272 Telegraph, Oakland, DJd Motown, 9pm – 1:30am, $0.  Upstairs.  Gets crowded by 10pm.  Started out mostly white hipster (including the DJ) and morphed to polyglot hipster.
• Eli’s Mile High Club, Oakland.  Live blues, 7 – ?pm, $5.
• Dance Boulevard, 1824 Hillsdale Ave, San Jose.  WCS party, DJ Richard Kear, 9:15pm – 12am, $12 (7:15 – 8:15pm beginner lesson, 8:15 – 9:15pm intermediate lesson, $15 lessons & party).
• Lakeside Lounge, Oakland.  Steppers, Ron Brown, 9pm – ~12am, $?; class 7 – 9pm, $10
• Madrone Art Bar, SF – Motown, 9pm – 2am, $0.  Pretty crowded after 9pm and street parking tough.
• 7 Mile House – jazz band, 7 – 10pm, $0
• Local Edition – big band (Fil Lorenz Orchestra), 8 – 11pm, $0
• Neck of the Woods, SF – Salsa lessons followed at 9:15pm by salsa and bachata dancing until 1am, $20 at door / $15 online
• Swig, 561 Geary, SF.  Salsa, 9pm – 1am, $?.
• Shades of Blues at Polish Club, SF – DJ, 9pm – midnight, $6 – 10 (8 – 9pm lesson, $12 – 15)
• Savanna Jazz, San Carlos – live band, 7:30 – 10:30pm, $5?
• Temple Israel, 3183 Mecartney Rd, Alameda.  Last Monday of the month, Dave Altschuler’s Swingtime Big Band, 8 – 10pm, $5
• (no more PlayaSF Kizomba Monday nights)