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Cheap Thrills All Blues Weekend was a dance exchange weekend focusing on blues workshops, blues dance, and blues music. The music throughout the weekend has a strong focus on blues of many different styles and tempos, from up-tempo blues appropriate for dancing Lindy Hop to slower music appropriate for slow Blues dance. The intent of the weekend is not only to provide a low-cost weekend of Blues dancing, but also to provide opportunities to learn more about Blues dancing through workshops geared to all levels of dancers.

In its first year, Cheap Thrills was intended to be a "mini-exchange" and workshop weekend for Missouri and the surrounding states, but it turned into a national event, drawing far more attendees than expected. Since then, St. Louis has become known as one of the best places to experience and to learn social Blues dance, mostly due to the yearly success of the St. Louis Lindy Blues Exchange and the first Cheap Thrills All Blues Weekend in 2003.

If you liked Cheap Thrills, you're gonna love what we have in store for you at bluesSHOUT!. It's not so much a "brand new event" as it is and event that has what you loved most about Cheap Thrills and a few new twists to make the best Blues dance weekend in the country even bigger and better! Learn more about bluesSHOUT!

Read details about Cheap Thrills 2004. If you have photos you'd like posted to the site for all to see, contact us.

Cheap Thrills 2005 is over. But you can read details about the previous event or contact us, if you have photos you'd like posted to the site for all to see.

2006 was GREAT! Thanks!

You can read about Cheap Thrills 2006, but more importantly, you can find out about bluesSHOUT!, the event that will be taking Cheap Thrills place.

Read details about Cheap Thrills 2003.