Our Story
Keen to learn West Coast Swing from a real person and not just from YouTube videos, Sharon organised a venue and set up social media accounts to spread the word that a West Coast Swing class was starting with Shane McKeever as the weekly teacher.
So, in August 2012 West Coast Swing NI was created and had its first Wednesday night Class in Windsor Tennis club.
When Shane could no longer teach due to other commitments, Sharon took over this roll and started travelling to the UK and Europe attending as many workshops and events as she could.
In 2017, Sharon invited Andrew Shellard, an Allstar from France, to come and teach for a weekend workshop. Well he loved NI that much a year later he had moved over and took over teaching the weekly classes. With Andrew teaching and Sharon working behind the scenes, together they created Swingterfell, NI’s first ever 3 day WCS event.
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2020 threw a spanner in the works! Andrew moved back to France, we had a much longer than expected break. But.. we are back!
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The amazingly talented Gráinne Farrell, started assisting the classes in 2022, but now co - teaches with Sharon (when she can get a word in)
There is never a dull moment with this duo!
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