Big Bay Ballroom's Harbor Hop

The Big Bay Ballroom's Harbor Hop is coming to South Bay this August 24th.  The event is free and open to the public.  You can watch the dancing, take lessons, or show everyone your best dance moves.  The event will be at the Chula Vista Bayfront park from 7pm-10pm.  There sill be various bands performing all night.

It’ll be rockin’ and rollin’ in the park under the stars this Friday night, Aug. 24, in the South Bay.

That’s when the boogying begins at the Harbor Hop, the Port of San Diego’s free Big Bay Ballroom fest in Chula Vista Bayfront Park, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. The Harbor Hop is the fourth and final gala music and dance event the Port will be hosting this month.
 
The Harbor Hop fun starts with dance instructor Catherine Poole, who will help perfect your moves. She’ll be teaching the East Coast Swing, which she said is known for its “bounciness and swing hip action.” The free dance lessons are set to begin at 7:15 p.m. Poole has been dancing and performing since she was 14. When she graduated from Brigham Young University in 2008, the degrees she earned included a minor in ballroom dance. She also is a dance instructor at Mary Murphy's Champion Ballroom.

From 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., you can swing to the Big Band sounds of Swingtown.

Last Saturday night on the Imperial Beach oceanfront, Lenora Porcella was among several hundred people enjoying the Barefoot Boogie.

“What a terrific event,” was her comment to Imperial Beach Patch, which provided a gallery of photos of some of the dancers. “It just doesn't get better than dancing under the stars, at the beach, on a summer evening.”

Other ballrooms have featured salsa dancing and music at Pepper Park in National City and swing dancing and jitterbug at the Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier.

The Port is hosting the Big Bay Ballroom events and numerous other community events, ranging from concerts and dances to festivals, fitness clinics and eco-tourism celebrations, to enliven the San Diego Bay waterfront. The goal is to create a vibrant waterfront and provide residents and visitors opportunities to enjoy year-round activities in the five Port member cities and their parks and open spaces along the bay and the Imperial Beach oceanfront.

For information on the event, please visit Port of San Diego.