Gregory Street Vegabonds
Gregory Street Vagabonds are a vintage jazz & swing band based in Rochester, New York. The band is a mix of Lindy Hop dancers and musicians who’ve come together to take part in this jubilant and energetic musical style. We especially love music from the 1930’s and 1940’s, love to play for dancing, and build our sets for maximum Lindy Hop-ability.
We can be seen and heard performing around Rochester at local music venues such as Iron Smoke Distillery, the Little Theatre Cafe, and Abilene, or at dances for Groove Juice Swing, the RIT and University of Rochester Swing Dance clubs, as well as at the North Vintage Village Festival of the Arts and the Rochester Fringe Festival.
DJ: Artem Pugachev
Artem Pugachev (he/him), or Art as he’s more commonly known, began his Lindy Hop journey with Rochester Institute of Technology’s Brick City Boppers. Shortly after joining the college swing dance club in 2016, he found a passion for DJing, and hasn’t been able to stop dancing or nerding out about jazz since! He now DJs regularly at Rochester’s local Groove Juice Swing events, and as of 2022, is Groove Juice’s DJ Coordinator. The past two years, he also had the honor of being a part of the DJ teams at Stompology and Slow Dance Soiree. His choice of tunes tends to skew toward contemporary musicians, while honoring the classic jazz sound of the swing era.