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Dance! Summer 2014



     Last Sunday was the street party for legendary DJ Larry Levan.   Larry Levan put DJing on the map as an art form in NYC spinning at the famous Paradise Garage.  The street party was to celebrate the launching of the campaign to rename King Street,     "Larry Levan Way".  

     That epic party kicked off the dance season of summer 2014 in NYC.   Original members of paradise garage, and party people from all over came out for this anticipated event.  There were ages eight to eighty out there partying to the way dance music should be played. We started lining up around 7:30 am, the weather was so beautiful in NYC that day.  I believe it was their first 80 degree temperature this year along with this amazing sun that lasted the entire day.

      It is estimated that 22,000 people showed up to get on down and party.  I saw people that I hadn't seen in decades, twenty to twenty five years for some.  I met so many new faces and danced with many.  Cellphone cameras were snapping, video cameras were rolling throughout the party.  Red bull Music Academy, who sponsored the event took video footage of the entire party.  Me and my friends were featured in their official videos.  I have attached a link to one of the videos below.

      So it's official, like a ref with a whistle.  Larry Levan reigns supreme and we danced and danced and relived those special times.  We laughed, we cried about the friends we lost, the loves we lost, and we danced because we are still here!!   The legendary DJ's were spinning the classics!!  This was such a legendary time in our lives. So we will Dance this summer and dance until we cant any longer!  

      Rest in Peace to ALL the DJ's that touched our lives!!! Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan, and the DJ who did it for me, and  many others, the Legendary Tee Scott!!! of Better Days!!.  Hopefully there will be a tribute for him one day.  

      Keep The Music Playing!! 
    Peace
    Miss DJ L.A.

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