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 ...

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 ...

Adia Nuño always dreamed of being a professional dancer. But after turns as a high school and college cheerleader and then leading three cheer programs in Orange County, she figured her dance card was ...

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 ...

When you think of beach music you probably hear “Under the boardwalk, we’ll be havin’ some fun” or “Hey hey baby, I wanna know if you’ll be my girl” playing in your head. Those breezy tunes evoke ...

“On The Beach” comes to your radio from the Hillsborough home of Ed Weiss -- Charlie Brown’s 73-year-old real identity. With “On The Beach” in syndication on around 40 stations across the Carolinas ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Fans emerged from pandemic lockdowns primed to hit the floor. Now online platforms are bringing fresh sounds and budding stars to bigger audiences worldwide. Fans emerged from ...

Island restaurants promise good times this summer — from cocktails-sipping to live jazz, fun-spirited trivia contests or dancing. Known for their fine fare and service, restaurants in Palm Beach are ...

When Ivan Flores was a child living in Mexico City, his mom took him to festivals where he said, “There was always dancing.” She also took him to a Tae Kwon Do class, where Latin dancing just happened ...

In this 2006 photo from The News & Observer archive, Patsy O'Neal from Raleigh, dances with Chip Thomas from Roxboro, during the Triangle Beach Music Festival at Bryan Farms in Garner, NC. Ethan Hyman ...