The Kountry Kickers Clogging Team is located on the Virginia Peninsula - Hampton and Newport News and surrounding areas.
About Us
We are dedicated to keeping the traditional mountain clogging alive. We love to do ole time clogging using traditional mountain figures as well as popular clogging line dances.
We practice every Friday night (except major holidays) from 6-8 pm. Currently we are practicing at Hampton YMCA Health and Wellness Center, 4001 Coliseum Drive, Hampton, VA 23666.
We offer lessons once a year. The 2023 session will be from October 13 - December 7 at 6 pm at YMCA Health and Wellness Center, 4001 Coliseum Drive, Hampton, VA. You will learn the basic steps as well as a line dance, a circle dance and old time figures, or traditional dancing!
About Us
Our Team
We are a traditional team working to keep alive the mountain style of clogging. We perform Southern Appalachian traditional style, Country Hoedown, percision routines, mixers and even modern line dances.
Our Dance
Clogging is a part of Southern Appalachian tradition, such as moonshine and outhouses. The name “clogging” itself comes from the European folk dances which were performed in wooden shoes called clogs. In America the wooden shoes were replaced with hobnail boots on wooden floors. Cloggers of today use metal taps on their shoes for a very distinctive sounds as they dance. In the early days of our country the barn dance was a place for courting, socializing and dancing to music played on fiddles, guitars and banjos. This type of music was a blend of Scottish, Irish and English styles. Today’s clogging includes many types, from big circle dances to the increasingly popular line dances. The steps may be traditional “flatfooting” or include fancy freestyle buck dancing.
Our Performances
We are happy to dance for municipal or county festivals, businesses, civic organizations, senior residences or private occasions. Contact us for our fees at n2clogn@yahoo.com or 757-676-5056.