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The greatest music ever made for dancing

Our Live Bands and top DJs know how to light up the dance floor with the best in the Motown roots, true Funk, modern and classic R&B, Blues, Hip Hop...it's the hottest kind of dance party.

Live Soul Bands

We've got heart-pounding Dallas bands, playing authentic Soul:

Bobby Patterson

Soul Revue feat. Bobby Patterson

Bobby Patterson is a Soul legend who started performing in the 1950's, and carries on the soul-blues tradition just like Al Green, James Brown, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, and Sam & Dave. In addition to performing on the stage, he produces albums and DJs on Soul 73, the Dallas Soul Radio Station.

Also featuring Lou Hampton, an icon of Dallas R&B, Jackie Don Loe, a leading Blues headliner, Mike Fuget and young Darren Denney on the skins - these guys ARE Soul music.

that guy will not be in attendance...

Big Charles Young

"He can ignite a packed house of people into a frenzy." - Bill Fountain
"If I had to pick one artist around here...it would be Big Charles Young." - R.L. Griffin

Big Charles sang Gospel in church in his youth, and started sneaking into Blues clubs at age 11. Now, his ass-shakin Soul music plays all over France, Australia, and elsewhere. We can't wait for him and his band to bring down the Soul house at MezzJelly!

Top Soul DJs

These are some bad mothas. They got soul, and are some of our favorite DJs:

Brooke Filsinger - Toronto

Brooke needs little introduction if you've been to events in Canada. She loves full-bodied, 'scrumpditiliumptious' Soul music, the kind that you can really sink your teeth into. Her ultimate goal? To have her very own coca-cola machine... but just as much she'd like to play the stuff that makes you have to dance all night long.

Lila Desatoff - Orange County

Lila is best known for teaching dance for over 30 years, and being married to and lecturing with the Late Willie "Mr. Balboa" Desatoff. Now we find some of her other talents: She has been enjoying and collecting music since long before most of you were born. She has a diverse collection of Soul music from all eras, and will be on hand to share her knowledge with us.

We are honored to have our friend Lila join our crew.

Lo Agdinaoay - Cleveland

Lo is one of our favorite DJs. He welcomes any chance to play for dancers who want music with a little grease and a whole lotta soul, and he’s as versatile as they come… If you want it, Lo’s got it; if Lo doesn’t have it, he’ll go get it; if he can’t find it, you probably didn’t want to hear it anyways ;) You may have heard some of his stuff at MezzJelly Waterloo Blues, or exchanges in Florida, Atlanta, Columbus, and Denver.

Jim Wheatley - Atlanta

Jim's love for Soul, Blues and Gospel Music became evident back when he DJed dances during his high school days, all the way to 1999 when, as a DJ at “Swingers” in Atlanta during the days of neo-Swing, he still managed to pepper his playlists with tunes from James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Jr. Walker, Al Green and the Swan Silvertones. Good man.

Jim has brought his Soul to Beantown, YAX Swing & Soul Exchange, Atlanta's Summer Swing Jam, WCLX, Music City Mini-Camp, plus exchanges in Austin, Chicago, San Diego, Knoxville and South Florida, among others.

Jered Morin - Dallas

An 8-year DJ veteran, he has held many House DJ slots plus been invited around the US & Canada. Jered stocks his sets with the power of "oomph", mixing all-era Soul, energetic Funk, hard-driving Swing and earthy Blues which keeps dancers going around the clock.

That has brought him to be a Featured DJ in DC, Boston, Detroit, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Detroit, North Carolina, Texas, Cleveland, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and many, many more exchanges.