Sunday, Super June 15, 2025
7-8:30 pm
Como Park Lakeside Pavilion
Dock & Paddle is located within Como Lakeside Pavilion in Saint Paul, Minnesota. We have ample seating indoors and out. Dock & Paddle offers plenty of room to enjoy food and beverages while enjoying the entertainment.
1360 Lexington Parkway North, Saint, Paul, MN
Join us at the beautiful Como Lakeside Pavilion! Open air, covered pavilion overlooking Lake Como. Food and drinks available at the attached Dock & Paddle restaurant.
Swing into Summer with us as we kick off our Super June!!! Events!
It's our Super June!!! and our June calendar is packed!
After dancing in the dark with us at the Wabasha Street Caves, it's time to come out into the sunlight and head over to the Lake at Como Lakeside Pavilion for and evening of toe-tapping Swing music and dancing. Then take in a great ballgame when the Saint Paul Saints become the Ghostly Gangsters commemorating Saint Paul's gangster past as Crooks Haven with the music of the Swing era welcoming you at the gate. Then finish off the month at Parley Lake Winery with your favorite red or chilled white or rosé all the while enjoying everybody's favorite Swing music!
Don't miss out! Get into the Swing!
Let the Haunted Debauchery Ensue As St. Paul Saints Become the Crooks Haven Ghostly Gangsters On Friday, Super June 27 Tickets...
Featuring the Westwind Swing Band at the gates! More...
ST. PAUL, MN (March 13, 2025) - John Dillinger. Baby Face Nelson. Ma Barker. Alvin “Creepy” Karpis. The St. Paul Saints have more in common with some of the most famous gangsters in history, who made their way to Saint Paul during prohibition, than you might think. Many might consider the Saints the outlaws of Minor League Baseball. Rule breakers. Mischievous. Antiestablishment. Check, check, and check. Put on your flapper dress, don your pinstriped suit, and grab your favorite fedora (but leave the Tommy Gun at home) because the Saints are changing their identity for one night during the 2025 season.
Super June 27!!!
On June 27 the Saints will lean into the city’s history when they become the Crooks Haven Ghostly Gangsters. In the late 1920s and early 30s, Saint Paul became known as “Crooks’ Haven.” The city became a place where gangsters, robbers, and bootleggers from all over the Midwest were able to hide out safely from the FBI and run their operations. Saint Paul was known as a “sanctuary for criminals” with the help of corrupt politicians and those in power who would turn a blind eye to gangsters’ underground activity.
The 18th Amendment, Prohibition, made the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export, of alcoholic beverages illegal. This created a hub in many cities across the country with Saint Paul being one of the focal points in the Midwest. Such notorious gangsters as John Dillinger, Babyface Nelson, Roger "the Terrible" Touhy, Machine Gun Kelly, Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, and the Barker gang set up shop in areas like the current Wabasha Caves, where the Saints held their unveiling on Wednesday, March 12, which was used as a nightclub and speakeasy.
Saturday, Super June 28, 2025
1 - 4 pm
Parley Lake Winery
Great Wine Paired with a Great Experience
Live music, food trucks, and great people who love to share their passion for Minnesota wine.
8280 Parley Lake Road, Waconia, MN, 55387
Join us at the beautiful Parley Lake Winery!
We Do Weddings &
Special Events!
We are the featured Swing Band on the first Thursday of every month during Thursday Night Swing Dancing
Fun Note: The Wabasha Street Caves are the only remaining restored Gangster Era site in Saint Paul. They offer historic tours of extensive caves carved into the hillside in long abandoned mining ventures in 1800's. Later, the caves were used as a mushroom farm, and then developed as a Restaurant Casino and Gangsters' Hotspot during the 1930's prohibition era. Newspapers reported an unsolved gangland murder at the casino. Tour guides point out the bullet holes. Some believe the caves are haunted by the murdered mobsters whose bodies were never found... Check out this fascinating spot! It's more than Thursday Night Swing Dancing! https://www.wabashacaves.com/
Westwind Swing Band is a traditional 18 piece big band with lead vocalist Robyn Chargo. Our songbook includes tunes by iconic band leaders such as Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw and more. Our mission is to preserve and perform classic Swing Era and similarly styled music, as recorded by the original artists.
We are available for your listening and dancing pleasure! We perform at a variety of venues from wineries, swing dances, weddings and other private events to city parks and senior centers. You can hear us play regularly at the Wabasha Street Caves Swing Dancing Night from 7 - 10 PM on the first Thursday of every month.
Typical venues that work well for us are ballrooms, banquet and concert halls, city park band shells, community centers, party rooms, wineries, breweries, retirement communities, and senior residences.
We are becoming a Twin Cities wedding band of note with several recent bookings and we are already booking into next year! Call now to check availability and reserve your date!