A HUGE THANK YOU!
to everyone who brought something to the Fall Harvest!

giving hand pic of donations giving hand

Y'all together provided *140 pounds!!!* of food PLUS $155 in cash to an area food bank.

COHJS has been doing this for decades, but in the 10 years that Hyla + I have been doing it this is by far + away the most generous year of them all. Thank you so much for sharing!

Open Community Jam + Dance

holly leaf Happy New Year's Edition! holly leaf

Wed Jan 8, 8:15 til 11 ~ Still Free!*

Dance workshop at 8:15, bandstand around 8:45

Bring your self, an instrument, dancin' shoes - let's enjoy this together!

Generally every 2nd Wed of the month - Feb 12, Mar 12, Apr 9, etc - but please check!

* Can you bring $5? Also PayPal, Venmo, debit or credit here.
Need your help to keep this every month, and Free! ... and indoors ;-)

Rambling House Music Bar, 310 E Hudson St Cbus.

Our friends + partners at Rambling House need our help to keep this going! We'll pass the Tip Jar around ... please bring a $5 bill to help with RH's expenses. If most of the "usual crowd" is willing to put in $5 that goes a long way to keeping this - and Rambling House - stable + sustainable.
Thanks so much for helping out!

dancers

Quick dance workshop at 8:15! Big ol' thank you to Shannon Varner and SwingColumbus for joining in with this part!

Always plenty of people there happy to share and help with steps, songs, and techniques.
Thanks to our friends at SwingColumbus and CBal for helping out + joining in.

100% FREE and open to the public - please help keep it this way!

~ Please Help Us Keep It Live & Local! ~

It's a perfect time to join or renew your COHJS membership for 2025!

We need your continued support to keep these good things happening - hire musicians + venues for jams and shows.

Please join or renew now online!

Or join/renew at a jam or show. Either way your membership support is VITAL to making COHJS events happen- offering decent compensation to the musicians who learn + share this great music, both at our "pro" shows and an "anchor" or 2 at our jams. Door admissions usually cover maybe 1/3 of the cost of a show. Most of the rest comes from memberships, and a bit more from a couple small grants.

For $20 a year you get $5 off the regular show admission and our newsletter - -
but what you really get is doing your bit to keep hot jazz and dance live + local!

Next Up!

Spring 2025 Show Dates

Mark Your Calendars!

All shows Sunday's 2-5, at the Clintonville Woman's Club
and hoping to have dance workshops too!

Mar 23, Apr 27, June 22


General Admission $20, COHJS Members + SwingColumbus dancers $15
Students $10, but Music educators + music students ALWAYS FREE!

Renew your membership, or join, and
get the member's reduced price of $5 admission for the show!

The Columbus Foundation website

COJHS is grateful for the generous support of The Columbus Foundation and the Mary Burnham Thomas Fund and the D. Randall and Patricia D. Morris Fund.

The GCAC website

And we're ALSO grateful to the The Greater Columbus Arts Council for their generous support.

The Central Ohio Hot Jazz Society is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation dedicated to enjoying and sharing traditional American jazz of the early 20th century. Comes in many styles and called by many names - traditional jazz, Dixieland jazz, classic jazz, hot jazz, New Orleans style jazz ... or San Francisco, Chicago, Kansas City, New York style jazz.
We LISTEN, PLAY, + DANCE to it, especially LIVE and NEAR HOME!

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