Country Social at Goldcoast - 1 year anniversary celebration!
Schedule
Fri Apr 18 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Goldcoast Ballroom | Coconut Creek, FL
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On Good Friday in 2024 we started these monthly COUNTRY Socials... Friday, April 18th we will be celebrating our 1 year anniversary, which is also on Good Friday. COUNTRY SOCIALS AT GC (1 year anniversary)!!!
Friday, April18th
7:30pm to 8:30pm - Country 2-step class with John Harris
8:30pm to 10:30pm - Country Social: Heavy mix of Country 2-step Music, Medium mix of West Coast Swing, Cha Cha, East Coast Swing, and Waltz Music, & Lite mix of Nightclub 2-step, Hustle, Salsa , Rumba, and novelty dances.
* 3 sets of mixers!
* Survivor Picture will be taken at 10:30pm!
Cover Charge is $20.
John Harris will be the instructor and deejay for the evening! He also will be dancing with the crowd thru-out the night, he probably won't get to all the followers, but he'll certainly try. Sheron will be joining the fun as well.
John Harris is a professional dance instructor, competitor, and judge. He has multiple titles at national competitions (including West Coast Swing, Country, Salsa, and Hustle). He is a Florida State West Coast Swing Dance Champion and retired All-Star J&J Competitor in WCS. He has also competed in Pro-Pro on the UCWDC Country Circuit with Raquel Reynolds. He has over 30+ years dancing and over 20+ years of experience teaching Country, West Coast Swing, Ballroom, Latin, Salsa, & Hustle. He had been the owner and head instructor for 14 years at Sultry Swing, the dance studio. He is now a freelance instructor hosting dance opportunities thru-out Palm Beach and Broward Counties!
Help us spread the word by inviting all your dance friends to join us!
Have questions, contact John at (561)676-9989.
Goldcoast Ballroom
1415 Lyons Rd
Coconut Creek, FL
*** John Harris' Dance Story
When I was 15, my Dad left my Mother. For about a year my Mom was a complete mess until she ran into a dance studio named “Dance Connection”. It was not a place filled with the wealthiest or youngest of people, it was just filled with some of the nicest, caring people you ever will meet. I will tell you that the family my Mother created with the members of that studio saved her from her misery. They danced together, they would get together on holidays and celebrate together, they would even get together to help move each other, they were a dance family.
Fast forward several years and I was turning 20. I was a shy kid with very little self-confidence when it came to meeting new people or having conversations with groups of people (some of that had to do with the awkwardness of going through high-school at 6’4″ and rail thin and part of it had to do with the fact that I’m half deaf). My Mother, looking for a second miracle, pushed me into going to “Dance Connection” (I was more than a bit unwilling, as I was told frequently by people that I lacked talent in dance) with the hope that I would be able to make some new friends.
Over the next 6 months, I spent every single night dancing there, followed by a nightly trip after class to a local country dance bar for social dancing afterwards. Not only did I meet some awesome individuals and find plenty of self-confidence I also became quite the dancer. I had found a dance family of my own. We would dance together, eat together, sometimes we’d go on vacations together, it was everything I needed, it was my miracle.
Now fast forward almost 30 years, I have closed my dance studio of 14 years and now am an independent instructor. I hope I have been and will continue to be even close to as successful in creating an atmosphere that will allow each of you to find your dance family as Grant Austin’s Dance Connection down in Fort Lauderdale did for me and my mom.
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Where is it happening?
Goldcoast Ballroom, Goldcoast Ballroom, 1415 Lyons Rd, Pompano Beach, FL 33063, United States,Coconut Creek, FloridaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
