Fulton Street Jazz Band

The Fulton Street Jazz Band was organized in the early seventies by pianist Bob Ringwald. Originally the band was an informal group that met once a week at a Sacramento pizza parlor to learn and play Dixieland tunes. The name of the thoroughfare the pizza parlor was located on was, of course, Fulton Avenue.

The Fulton Street Jazz Band became more formalized in 1974 to play in the first Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, and is one of three bands to have played every Sacramento Jubilee since then.

When Ringwald moved to Los Angeles in 1979, Dean Nelson, the band's cornetist, took over leadership of the group and remained at the helm until late 2005. A few years ago, Ringwald returned to the Sacramento area. Late in 1998, he returned to the band as the pianist and in 2005 has taken over the leadership of the band, when Dean retired from the group.

The Fulton Street Jazz Band is a Chicago-style band that plays in the tradition of Eddie Condon's New York bands of the 40's and 50's. This popular and fun-loving group has been featured at jazz festivals and on jazz cruises for over thirty years.

The band combines a front line of outstanding ensemble and solo players with a powerful rhythm section that builds a strong foundation for the band's unique sound. The band's extensive and varied repertoire is the foundation from which the band makes each performance an exciting and strong jazz statement.

Fulton Street is a delight to listeners and dancers alike.

Scott Kaufman

Scott has been DJing for 9 years and is the head DJ at Midtown Stomp. He has also been the house DJ at the Davis Graduate and Splitfire Bar and Grill as well as spinning sets at the Tower Club, the Marquis, Decades, Confucius Hall, Swing Time at the Spotlight, the Sacramento Lindy Exchange (2002 and 2004), The San Francisco Lindy Exchange (2004), Lindy Ball (2003), Reno Dance Sensation (2004,2005,2006), and the Sacramento Swing Festival (2003). In the DJ Booth he's always ready to stir the pot with an eclectic mix of music. From Count Basie to Gene Harris he plays a wide range of music to keep the crowd on their toes...er balls of their feet.

Cid Galicia

Cid Galicia has been djing for a 2 years now; beginning with house parties and then, under the tutelage of Scott Kaufman and Ron Thompson, djing lindy nights at Midtown Stomp. The genres Cid djs are lindy and blues, specializing and spending time in the study of their music, artists, and history. Cid is always searching for new versions of classic songs. He has djed such events as the day dance at the Utah Lindy Exchange, Reno Dance Sensation, and Friday Night Blues. Cid is currently djing Luke Scherba's Tuesday Night Lindy and Blues night titled "Up in the Kitchen" at his new dance studio: Studio One.

Jose AmARAL

Jose has been DJing since late 1996 when he started going to private parties as a hobby playing Hip Hop, Trance, House and other electronic music.  As one of the few first to merge into digital audio he continued doing his mixing all with CD turntables, witch was rare at that time.  He joined the Institute Of Art And Multimedia, Los Angeles. To study, Audio and Video Editing, Graphics and Web design and have been doing it now since 2002.

Jose joined the Memories Family in october of 2003 in the "Beyond The Basics" lessons instructed by Essex and Lee. In April of 2004 he joined the
"Memories Swing Team" and remained there until the end of 2006.

During 2004, Jose started assisting with the sound equipment Friday nights for the LIVE band nights, setting up and running the Soundcraft Spirit LIVE soundboard with 24 CH. and later became the main sound engineer for Live band nights.