Some familiar faces, some new faces, and lots of badass music coming your way!



Daniel Repsch

Dan is a veteran DJ with a lifelong musical obsession. He DJs because he loves sharing music, inspiring dancers, and shaping a dance night. He’s spun for events across 4 continents, playing for everything from international events to local dances on a weekly basis and has organized both locally and for events as their Head DJ, including BluesSHOUT! and The Blues Experiment. He’s constantly challenging himself to bring new material to his fellow dancers and works hard to offer a variety of music in his sets that stays true to the roots of the dance. He loves all styles of music and his sets tend more toward authentic Jazz and Blues, but he can bring the party if the dance calls for it.



Brandy Smith

Brandy is excited to be DJing for CUBE again this year! She fell in love with blues dancing 8 years ago and is happy to call Chicago her home scene. She loves Chicago blues and many different types of blues music, but female blues musicians are her favorite. Don’t forget to ask her to dance!



Susan Olsen

Susan loves many different kinds of blues music, but there are special places in her heart for ballroom blues, badass female singers, and funky rhythms. She has deejayed at North Star Blues, Sweet Molasses Blues, bluesSHOUT! and numerous other events in addition to frequent local dances in her home scene of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Susan enjoys nothing more than keeping people out past their bedtimes to dance to amazing music and is excited to be at CUBE again.

Curtis Ellis

Chicago native, Curtis Ellis is extremely excited to be invited to DJ for CUBE this year. There is nothing that he enjoys more than seeing people having fun on the dance floor. With jazz music being apart of his life since age 5, Curtis loves the variety and complexity in which blues music allows dancers to share their stories. A 10 year veteran of the blues scene, Curtis has been competing, performing, teaching, and is now elated to ignite other’s passions on the dance floor with his choices in music.



Aaron Brown

Aaron Brown has been blues dancing since 2007 after falling in love with dance at the start of his time at college. He co-founded and ran Underground Blues, a blues scene at the Claremont Colleges. He has taught, DJed and competed throughout the country, something made easier since coming to Chicago. When he is not dancing alone in front of a mirror or surreptitiously finding new songs in an effort to maintain an air of omniscience, he is reading books like it’s his job, helping make websites and mobile apps because it is his job, and cuddling his very good blues dog Geronimo. Ask him to dance with you!



and Head DJ, Ross Blythe!

Ross Blythe (Chicago) is this year’s Head DJ at CUBE. He thinks music is great, and that you should dance to it. Often, he’ll be dancing in his seat while selecting the next song. Slide some bourbon over and chat with him about what’s playing or about the music at the Chicago Blues Fest!

