In the Bay Area, our nearest mountain range is the Sierra Nevada, not the Appalachian Mountains. But a traditional form of dance rooted in the Appalachians found its way west, probably with the Gold ...

It’s about having fun while you dance. That’s what young cloggers say about dancing on a traditional clogging team. This year’s crop of dancers is the strongest in many years, keeping mountain ...

Clogging is an expressive style of American dance with origins in the folk dances from Europe, Africa and pre-Columbian America - the groups that populated the south from the early 1700s. Many of the ...

Cloggers are now shuffling to hip-hop chart toppers from MTV instead of old-time string band music. “It will never be the way it was,” said grandfather of clogging Bill Nichols of South Carolina.

It was the mid 1700s and the settling of the Appalachians by immigrants from Ireland, Scotland, England and Germany had begun. Among the many parts of their cultures they brought with them was a ...

The Southern Thunder Cloggers have earned bragging rights. In October, the elementary team was named the national champions in traditional line clogging at the America's Clogging Hall of Fame World ...

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — Patty Morrissey isn't alone when she says performing at the Minnesota State Fair is an experience like no other. "We consider this like our Christmas," said Morrissey. "We get ...

The Bailey Mountain Cloggers – the 21-time national champion dance team from Mars Hill University — will offer a Clogging & Southern Appalachian Dance Workshop on Saturday, December 5, from 9 am until ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Immediately after finishing her weekly clogging lesson, Kelly Adams crossed ...

In the past 33 years, much has changed for the Carroll County Cloggers, but as the oldest active clogging group in Maryland, the group is striving to keep its spirit alive. Mark Wilson, an original ...

The weekend of October 26-27, America’s Clogging Hall of Fame held their National Championships in Gatlinburg. Each year the ACHF inducts up to three individuals into the Hall of Fame. One of 2018’s ...

CHAMPAIGN – Garry Harrison and the New Mules, who specialize in the traditional music of Illinois, will offer fiddle and banjo and clogging workshops on Saturday at Techline and the Phillips ...