A non-competitive swing dance weekend.

Featured Deejays

 

Victor Loveira

 

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Victor has over 20 years experience as a DJ, he is going into his 9th year as a swing DJ. In 1980, Victor and his brother started their own mobile DJ company. They would play at weddings, birthdays, private parties, etc.

In 1984, Victor started Dee Jaying at dance clubs in Houston, TX. He also did mixes for a local radio station. In 1991, Victor moved to Florida and retired from Dee Jaying.

Victor met Marc Fisher in 1995, he is the producer of the popular Measure of Blues CDs and started Dee Jaying, again, for the South Florida Swing Dance Society monthly dances. He was hooked on Dee Jaying all over again!

Victor's first swing event that he Dee Jayed was in Dallas in 1995, The Texas Classic. From that point on he has had the good fortune of Dee Jaying many of the countries top swing events including, US Open, Dallas DANCE, Boogie by the Bay, USA Grand Nationals, Americas' Classic, Liberty Swing, Swing Diego, Swing Fling, Summer Hummer, Nashville Classic, Worlds and Phoenix.

 

Ray Coker

 

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Raised in Knoxville , Tennessee in the shadows of Neyland Stadium, home of the Tennessee Volunteers, Ray became obsessed with sports… nevertheless, he was able to learn to play violin, trombone and trumpet. This was all done while playing football, basketball, baseball and running track. Whew!   
In the early to mid-60s and while attending the University of Tennessee , Ray played with a top notch Rock & Roll Band, the Pyramids. On occasion, the band backed such noted entertainers as Ike and Tina Turner and the Drifters and was the number one band for the fraternity and sorority circuit throughout the state of Tennessee. They once passed up an opportunity to add Dolly Parton to the band as a singer. Ask him about that story!  
His interest in DJing came quite by accident…as dance director for the Bay Area Whip Dance Club in the Houston area; dancers started looking to Ray for dance music.  As an avid collector of music (owning well over 2000 CDs at that time) it was not hard for him to make the transition.  The dance club purchased DJ equipment in the early 90s and Ray used that until the bug really hit in the latter part of ’97.  He purchased his first DJ equipment from a retiring Warren Jenny (a Hall Of Famer in his own right) and the rest is history.  
Ray is known locally as the Dancing DJ, and is currently Dance Director for the Bay Area Whip Dance Club of Houston, TX.   Vice President - National Association of Rhythm and Blues Dee Jays.  Vice President – National Fast Dance Association and Moderator for allswing DJs.  Ray is a 2000 inductee into the National Boppers Hall of Fame and most recently was inducted into the National Living Legends of Dance in Virginia Beach. Ray was awarded the 2006 Allswing DJ of the year at the Grand National Dance Championships.
 

Ron Reese

 

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Ron Reese began playing music as a hobby in High School, playing music for parties and social events.  Ron continued his hobby of playing music and DJ equipment to adulthood.  Ron has danced all of his life from Freestyle to Disco to Swing dancing.  Ron join his local swing/bop dance club in 1999 and started playing music for swing dancers in 2001 in Columbus, Ohio at Bowties located in the Midwest Hotel and Conference Center. In 2002, was asked by his local swing dance club to be the music director. As Music Director, Ron scheduled the club DJ’s, maintained the sound equipment, obtained music for the club and surveyed the members to ensure that the music played by the DJ’s was what the membership wanted.  
In 2003, Ron founded the Columbus Swing Dance Club and has been the featured DJ at all the clubs events including the club’s annual dance Jammin In July. Jammin' In July which attracts approximately 400 dancers from all around the USA that includes East Coast Swing Dancers, West Coast Swing Dancers, Bop Dancers, and Ballroom Dancers. Ron provides music and equipment for all the clubs events.  
Ron has played music for the Columbus Singles Dance Inc., private swing dance parties, local fund raisers, and local corporate dance parties.  Ron was one of the featured DJ’s for the Chicago Windy City Jitterbug Club’s “Sweet Home Chicago Dance” in July of 2005 and for the Columbus Swing Dance Club’s Jammin In July 2005.  
Ron enjoys the challenge of playing music for Swing Dancers and the challenge of determining the correct music to play for the various different groups of dancers.  Ron knows that each dance group is a different challenge.
 

And the ASDC Deejays!

 
 
Pat Korn
1649 Berkeley Lane, NE
Atlanta , GA 30329
info@atlantaswingclassic.com