Many years ago, the shag dance was born on the beaches of South Carolina. Quick and smooth, the dance rose in popularity among young people in the 1940s as they stepped and twirled to "beach music." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Carolina-grown, soulful sound of beach music returns to the Triangle this week for another summer season of blues and grooves.

The 44th annual Society of Stranders (SOS) Fall Migration is here, drawing thousands of shag fans to North Myrtle Beach to dance, connect with friends and celebrate shag culture. Although SOS hosts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HEMINGWAY — John J. "Bubber" Snow III dedicated his life to music, dance and South Carolina. He smiled with James Brown, wrote about music for local publications, grooved in the bygone dance clubs of ...

Any self-respecting, rhythm-having South Carolinian can’t, for sure. (Though, let’s face it: Some of us just don’t have the rhythm, do we?) The mood was loose and fun – just like the state dance – as ...

My husband, Lou, and I recently returned from S.O.S., (Society of Stranders) and Fall Migration, well known by many as the largest and oldest shaggin’ beach party. Lou serves as president of The Cape ...

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 ...

The Carolina-grown, soulful sound of beach music returns to the Triangle this week for another summer season of blues and grooves. With a boatload of performances on the horizon sure to attract ...