Omar has been collecting music for Blues, Swing, and Soul since he was a lil dude. It wasn't until after he started Lindy Hop did he decide to start getting people to dance. He began DJing in 2010. Since then, he has left-clicked tunes all over the world, in such locations as, Barcelona, Stockholm, and Seoul. Currently, he is a regular DJ in the DC/Baltimore area.
Michael Quisao plays music that moves you. He hails from Dallas, traveled the world with the U.S. Navy, and has been proud to call Washington, DC home since 2014. He started dancing in 1999, fell in love with jazz, took his first Lindy Hop workshop in 2006, and started DJing for dancers soon after. He believes that there are few things better than well-written liner notes and helping to inspire creative, fulfilling dances through music that compels movement.
Michael has served as Head DJ & Music Director at New Columbia Swing since 2018 and runs the DC Bal Social together with Annabel Quisao. He has had the privilege of DJing for numerous dance exchanges, weekend workshops, camps, and competitions, including national events such as the DC Lindy Exchange, California Balboa Classic, Camp Hollywood, Boston Tea Party, All Balboa Weekend, Bal-Ast Off, and Barcelona Balboa Weekend. Michael has served as Head DJ at events such as Lindy Focus, New York Bal Week, Great Lakes Balboa Escape, Stardust Slow Balboa Weekend, Swing Out New Hampshire, Slow Dance Soirée, and I Heart Balboa.
Artem Pugachev (he/him), or Art as he's more commonly known, began his Lindy Hop journey with Rochester Institute of Technology's Brick City Boppers. Shortly after joining the college swing dance club in 2016, he found a passion for DJing, and hasn't been able to stop dancing or nerding out about jazz since! He now DJs regularly at Rochester's local Groove Juice Swing events, and for the period of 2022-2025, was Groove Juice's DJ Coordinator. The past two years, he also had the honor of being a part of the DJ teams at Stompology and Slow Dance Soiree. His choice of tunes tends to skew toward contemporary musicians, while honoring the classic jazz sound of the swing era.