Beach music and the Carolina Shag dance phenom still carry a lot of weight in North Carolina. It was evidenced when Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, an avid shag dancer, established Beach Music Day ...

EDISTO BEACH, S.C. (WCBD) – Lace up your dancing shoes for three days of beach music and shag dancing on Edisto Beach. The Edisto Beach Music and Shag Fest promise entertainment by “top beach bands ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dancers take to the floor at OD Pavilion for the 2017 SOS Spring Safari. The Society of Stranders (S.O.S.) Spring Safari kicked off on Saturday, April 22 with Shag dancing at clubs in North Myrtle ...

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 ...

Seafood and beach music draw a large crowd each year to the Shag at the Foodbank. This year’s fifth annual fundraiser will take place 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Peninsula food bank ...

The Hilton Head Headliners will bring the beach to Aiken at the Aiken Standard's first-ever Beach Music Festival on Aug. 9 at The Village at Woodside. From 6 to 10 p.m., the five-piece band will ...

The briny ocean breeze pours over the dance floor at O.D. Pavilion in North Myrtle Beach like so many sandy footsteps from decades past and present. Platinum-haired beauties have a sway in their step.

Here's a nice little Christmas present. Remember Shag (the club night, not the bar)? It's returning for one night (two, if you count shhh-ag -- more on that in a minute) at Beauty Bar on Friday, ...

When I was in middle school, I had a Vision Gator skateboard named after Mark “Gator” Rogowski, a superstar skater in the ’80s. The last time I was on that board, I was holding on to the bumper of my ...