Columbia, S.C. | John Hook had this fascination, and there was no dancing around it. A disc jockey who had fallen under the spell of beach music - as well as the shag dance that went hand-in-hand with ...

No, this isn’t the carpet or the haircut. Shag dancing is the state dance of South Carolina and comes from the Grand Strand. Three times a year, thousands of shaggers, as they’re called, descend on ...

A North Myrtle Beach shag dance and beach music icon who was known around the country has died. Judy Collins, owner of Judy’s House of Oldies, died Saturday. She was 66. A slow song and blues lover, ...

Nearly every Tuesday night, Lee Pearson presides over dozens of dancers as they line-dance, shag, glide and twirl on a wooden dance floor inside a dimly-lit Market Street lounge. The disc jockey and ...

Unidentified Speaker: One word, awesome. Unidentified Speaker: Best music around. For a lot of us, music is like our soul. Anisa Khalifa: Beach music has been baked into the culture of the Carolina ...

Before I moved to South Carolina from Maine, I don’t recall hearing about Shag music. It sounded like a 1960s term. I’ve been wanting to write about the Summerville Shag Club for several months and ...

Tom and Eloise McLaughlin dance together at the annual Mid-Ohio Valley Shaggers dance at the Belpre Shrine Club on Saturday. The couple met at the club 13 years ago, then started dating, fell in love ...

Jul 8, 2017 Jul 8, 2017 Updated Dec 28, 2022 One novice dancer has a shag competition on her bucket list. A Myrtle Beach teen already has won multiple national titles, and says one of the perks is ...

Every other Tuesday night at Billy's Barn in Salem, you'll find the Roanoke Valley Shag Club and a dance floor full of people learning how to shag dance. "Everywhere you go up and down the east coast, ...

LANDIS — Tobitha Stewart took home her second national shag competition win last weekend. Stewart teamed up with Gene Pope, a retired Cary fire chief, to win the senior division at the National Shag ...

Can you guess my favorite activity? You may assume running, because I do that seven days a week and have mentioned it in numerous columns. You’re warm, but that’s not it. This involves some exercise ...