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Meet Our Scene 2020 – Class colours!

At Meet Our Scene each class is given a colour so you can easily find your crew on the night. It’s totally up to you how much you want to wear of it – deck yourself out from head to toe or accessorise with a simple splash. Think socks, bow ties, hats and hairpieces. If […]

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Swing Patrol College 2019!

We had the first of  what will hopefully be many Swing College courses in October 2019 at Exmouth Market, and we had an absolute blast! We were so lucky to have coaching from some fantastic teachers: Fancy Dougherty (USA), Steph & Pete Grange, Arrianne O’Shea, Robyn Larsen and Scott Cupit. Swing Patrol College is definitely […]

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Swing Patrol appear at The Big Feastival 2019

With the onset of a grey wet winter, what better time to throwback to all the colourful fun times we had at the Big Feastival in the Cotswolds this year? Thank you to our fantastic team (Alicia Brockenbrow, Andrew Margetts-Kelly, Asif Malik, Christian Turner-Bridger, David Green, Katie Young, Kristina Gren, Lukas Veritas, Polina Zotova, Rob Beaney […]

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Swing Patrol at Wilderness Festival 2019

Swing Patrol have proudly been part of every single Wilderness Festival from the very start in 2011 and it’s been a privilege watching this summer Festival grow from strength to strength. Our 2019 team were magnificent and performed, danced, battled and entertained at a variety of slots throughout the weekend. Check out some great photos […]

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First Aid Training for Team Swing Patrol

This year team Swing Patrol had the opportunity to do an accredited first aid training course with one of our amazing community members, Dave McDermott. We had so much fun while completing the one day Level 3 Emergency First Aid at Work. The full course specification can be found here:   http://www.firstaidawards.com/cfs/qualification-specifications/FAA-QS-EFAW.pdf   Scroll down to […]

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Three in One!

Team Swing Patrol represent at three UK Summer festivals over one crazy weekend! Swing Patrol have a fabulous tradition of having a team of dancers at Summer Festivals but we have never had three different teams at three different Festivals.. all on the one weekend! Our fabulous three crews of dancers entertained crowds at Standon […]

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Goodbye Steph ‘n’ Pete!

I don’t write the Swing Patrol blogs and am very grateful to Anjali who does such an amazing job with the many cool blogs now on our website. I did want to write this one myself as I was so moved by what I recently witnessed. Our two King Cross Swing Patrol teachers are moving […]

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Swing at the Scoop!

Swing Patrol held two events at the Scoop in London Bridge in June and they were both awesome! Nothing like a bit of swing dancing by the river on a beautiful summer evening. We had taster classes where we got everyone up and dancing, not to mention amazing performances by our very own award winning […]

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Scott Cupit on BBC Somerset Radio

On the morning of Saturday 13th July, Scott & Arrianne were driving to Hayley & Adrian’s (our Clapham teachers) wedding in Cornwall. As they drove through Somerset they were tuned into BBC Somerset. The compère asked for anyone who had broken a World Record to phone in. Suddenly Scott found himself on the radio with […]

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Swing Patrol at i360

Swing Patrol and the fabulous crew at the Brighton BAi360 recently teamed up for a magical morning of swing dancing both up in the Pod and then down on the foreshore. A massive thanks to the many dancers involved and the crew at the BAi360 who not only arrived early to make this happen but […]