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Get ready to show your stuff! This year's bluesSHOUT! will feature
6 Blues contests judged by our top-notch Blues instructors, regional peer
judges and you. This year's peer judges are:
Northeast: TBD
Southeast: Mike Leggett
Midwest: Ann DeBord Smith
Northwest: Martin Beally
Southwest: Summer Shapiro
All contests are free, and you can sign up at the event the day of the contest. Got questions? View our competition rules. Got more questions? You can get more details and ask questions of the judges in person at the contestant meeting.
Invitational Cuttin' Contest
Finals: 10:00pm Friday night dance.
This showcase competition is the place for this weekend's dance instructors
to strut their stuff. Invitational competitors may not compete in any other
contest. There will be no prelims, just one round of cuttin' old-school style.
The instructors will judge each other based on Blues Aesthetic,
Musicality and Creativity.
Open Jack & Jill
Sign up: no sign up, just get out and dance.
Prelims: 11:00pm-11:15pm Friday night; Tap-out dance.
Finals: 11:30pm-11:45 Friday night.
This competition is open to all levels of dancer in any style Blues. Just
grab someone and start dancing. The judges will continue tapping out the
crowd and you'll keep selecting new partners until we reach approximately
5 couples. Then partners will be assigned at random, and you'll be judged
as a couple in the final round. Prelims will be to DJed music, but the finals music
will be a live band.
Dancers will be judged on Blues Aesthetic, Musicality, and Creativity.
Strictly Ballroom Blues
Sign up: at event by 4:30pm Saturday.
Contestant meeting: 5:00pm Saturday.
Prelims: 5:30pm Saturday.
Finals: 9:45pm-10:00pm Saturday night dance.
This competition is for partnered couples. The music selected by our DJs will be of various tempos
but will be primarily be in the Classic, Piano, and Jazz Blues style. You may dance any style of Blues, and
dancers will be judged on Blues Aesthetic, Musicality, and Creativity.
Strictly Jook Joint
Sign up: at event by 4:30pm Saturday.
Contestant meeting: 5:00pm Saturday.
Prelims: 5:30pm Saturday; immediately following Ballroom Blues prelims.
Finals: 11:15pm-11:30pm Saturday night dance.
This competition is for partnered couples. The music selected by our DJs will be of various tempos
but will be primarily be in the Country, Delta, and Piedmont Blues styles. You may dance any style of Blues, and
dancers will be judged on Blues Aesthetic, Musicality, and Creativity.
Solo Blues Cuttin' Contest
Sign up: no sign up, just show up at meeting.
Contestant meeting: 5:00pm Sunday.
Prelims: 5:05pm Sunday.
Finals: 9:30pm-9:45pm Sunday night dance.
This is a solo dance contest - no partner required. You may dance in any
style of Blues dance. The music selected by our DJs will span the range
of the Blues genres and tempos. Judges will select finalists from the
preliminary rounds based on Blues Aesthetic, Musicality, Creativity
and Interaction, but the finals will be audience-judged.
Champions Division
Finals: 10:45pm-11:00pm Sunday night dance.
No sign up, no prelims, no contestant meeting. Invites are based on placement
in a national level Blues competition during the past year. We'll have
contestants from last year's bluesSHOUT! and other national level Blues
competitions, including the winners in each division at this year's bluesSHOUT!
Champions will be competing Jack and Jill style to DJed music. Judges
will be looking for the couple who shows the most Creativity, Musicality,
and Blues Aesthetic.
First Place winners will receive passes to next year's bluesSHOUT! and
an invitation to compete for cash prizes in this year's and next year's
Champions division. Second and Third Place winners will be awarded passes
to one of the following events:
Show Me Blues (St. Louis, MO - May 29-31, 2009)
Austin Blues Party (Austin, TX - July 3-5, 2009)
Down Home Blues Dance Festival (San Francisco, CA - July 17-19, 2009)
Swingtime In The Rockies (Denver, CO - July 23-26, 2009)
Dirt Cheap Blues Exchange (Virginia Beach, VA - September 10-14, 2009)
Enter the Blues (Atlanta, GA - Dates TBD, 2009 )
NYC Blues Blaze (New York, NY - October 3-4, 2009)
North Star Blues (Minneapolis, MN - October 30- November 1, 2009)
Emerald City Blues Festival (Seattle, WA - November 6-8, 2009)
Steel City Blues (Pittsburgh, PA - March 5-7, 2010)
Mile High Blues (Denver, CO - Dates TBD, 2010)