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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The charity Heritage Crafts, which promotes traditional craftsmanship, first published its Red List of Endangered Crafts in ...

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 ...

A group of Nelson tap afficionados hope some new members will get their clog on to grow the popularity of an eastern USA folk dance form. The first evening of a six-week course in Appalachian tap - or ...

A clog dancing group in Devon is appealing for new dancers and musicians to join them. The group Plymouth Clog was formed in the 1980s but group members said in recent years their numbers had dwindled ...

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 ...