Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 44th annual Society of Stranders (SOS) Fall Migration is here, drawing thousands of shag fans to North Myrtle Beach to dance, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shag can be used as both a noun and a verb to describe the popular dance that originated along the strands between Carolina Beach and Myrtle Beach, S.C., in the 1940s and '50s. For hundreds of area ...

Thirty years ago on April 10, 1984, Gov. Richard Riley signed Act No. 329 designating the shag the official dance of South Carolina. Native South Carolinians grew up hearing their parents talk about ...

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 ...