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Local clogging group mixes contemporary music with traditional dance at State Fair

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — Patty Morrissey isn't alone when she says performing at the Minnesota State Fair is an experience like no other. "We consider this like our Christmas," said Morrissey. "We get ...
Grand Island Independent

Up to the task of leading the Clogging Grandmas Lane Hickenbottom YWCA clogging group leader Judy McCarthy (right) performs with the rest of the group recently at the Women¹s ...

Judy McCarthy took tap dancing lessons as a little girl. Now she's a clogging grandma. She leads the so-called dance group at Grand Island's YWCA on Thursday nights. She instructs a similar class on ...
The Herald-Dispatch

Local clogging group wins National Championship

The Guyan River Cloggers brought home a National Championship in August at the 2025 USA National Clogging Championships. The event was held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in ...
Grand Forks Herald

Live music is 'fundamental to human nature': Fiddle and dance group keeps traditional music, dance styles alive

EAST GRAND FORKS — Jeanne O’Neil, co-founder of North Country Fiddle and Dance, isn’t worried about the traditional songs and dances her organization helps put together going away anytime soon. While ...