DJ Profiles

John Crosbie has been a regular DJ at the West Way Club since 1992. He started in the business playing at weddings, at various legion halls and at clubs around town. John is himself a musician and plays the lead guitar in a Blues Band. In addition to being a DJ, John works as a cabinetmaker and keeps very busy raising his three children. He likes fishing and of course, music. His favourite music is rock, blues and latin. Does he dance?? Nobody knows and he will not tell. All he will admit to is that he likes meeting dancers and really enjoys working at the WW. He says that he is grateful to everyone for their kindness and appreciation over the years and especially thankful to the directors for their support and confidence in him.

Paul has been a DJ at the West-Way Club for about two years. He has been in the business for several years, in fact, he started working as a DJ over twenty years ago. His love of music is what brought him to this profession which he very much enjoys.
In addition to working as DJ in many dancing establishments in and around town, he is also very busy entertaining people at wedding parties, and at private club functions.
Pleasing people is what is most important to him and he is most happy when everyone is having a good time. When playing he often looks around the room and makes sure that he chooses the right dance music so that people get up and dance.
He likes all kinds of music and his tastes range from the classical to modern rap and, of course, he likes good old Latin and Ballroom music. In addition to listening to music, he likes to travel with his family once in a while in order to rest and relax.
He particularly enjoys working at the West-Way because, as he says, "It's a very well run club and the people are especially friendly and courteous".

In our continuing series of getting to know our regular DJs better this time we will feature our Friday DJ: Ralph Yuan
At the outset it must be said that Ralph has a keen sense of humour as will see from his answers.
I began by asking him how he started in this business. This is what he told me:
" Theresa (his wife) and I were taking dance lessons from our friend in Brampton. We decided to run our own dance club called Evergreen at the Brampton Community Centre. I was always the music guy since I like to play the sound system. I started my career as a DJ at the Continental Dance Club in Mississauga 15 years ago and I have been with the West Way Club for more than 10 years"
When I queried him to find out if he had any other line of work, he replied: " Are you kidding? I must work around the clock to make ends meet". He continued by saying that he works for a major financial institution as an IT Specialist.
Does he have any special hobbies? He replied that he is very busy working at 2 or 3 jobs which does not leave much time for anything else. He used to love to play the guitar, the violin and the flute and also he likes listening to Classical Music.
On the subject of dancing he notes that his favourite dance is the Tango while Theresa's is the Foxtrot. They both like the Waltz and Rumba as their warm up dance. He tries to avoid the Samba!
How does he keep up with new music releases? Ralph enjoys a great variety of music and likes good Orchestral pieces and especially vocal selections full of passion. He looks for good dance music in local music stores, searches on line, listens to the radio on his way to work, pays attention to the background music in shopping centers, and yes, such is his love of good music, that he will even steal music from kids and others!
(Editor's note: Thank you, Ralph, and we wish you all the best in your on-going search for good music!)