Saturday March 8th, 2014
9:00pm to Midnight - $25
Michigan Union Ballroom, 530 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Born in Ottawa, Canada, Mr. Webster began playing the piano at age 4. He moved to Toronto in 1993 to study jazz piano at University of Toronto. In 2001, while still living in Toronto, he became obsessed with the lindy hop and began traveling to exchanges and camps as both a musician and a dancer. In 2002, Gordon met his wife Katie, a lindy hopper, at Swing Out New Hampshire. In 2004, he moved to New York City to pursue his Masters of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music, where he graduated in 2006.
One of the most active and versatile musicians on the scene, Webster maintains ongoing collaborative relationships with a diverse array of jazz/blues and lindy hop luminaries, and is an associate member of one of the most popular traditional jazz bands on the U.S. lindy hop scene, the Cangelosi Cards.
Naomi now has the pleasure of singing with some of the best dance bands in the nation- the Gordon Webster Sextet, the George Gee Orchestra, and the Boilermaker Jazz Band, and she has performed across the country and internationally in Sweden, Switzerland, and Spain.