Residents of Lincoln County and surrounding areas will soon have the opportunity to experience one of Appalachia’s most ...

GRANITE FALLS — The Appalachian Rhythm Clogging and Dance Studio opened its second location on South Main Street, downtown Granite Falls, on Saturday, Aug. 17. The grand opening event ran from 11 a.m.

Forget high-end studios and top dollar instructions. Carla Gover honed her dancing skills at square dances in the mountains. As a young girl, she’d "shuffle, step, toe, step" to the fast-paced rhythm ...

With folk dancers from Taiwan, Trinidad, Romania, Russia and other far-flung places performing at Folkmoot, it might be easy to overlook the fact that southern Appalachia has its own dance custom to ...

Aug. 23—For most, getting more than 20 billion social media views would be a life-changing event. Not so for the J Creek Cloggers, a home-grown Haywood County clogging group that has ascended to ...

When members of the Diamond Dixie Cloggers gather each Tuesday morning for practice, they delve into our nation's heritage and contribute to the continuity of a tradition that goes back more than 300 ...

FiddleKicks, an Appalachian clogging group based in Philadelphia, has been dancing its way through schools and communities ever since it start in 1996. The group will perform at Stroudsburg High ...

In typical melting-pot fashion, the stomps, steps, clanks and taps of the American folk dance called clogging are not really American at all. The jigs are from Ireland and Scotland, and the high kicks ...