The Official Newsletter of the Society of Brunswick Shaggers. PO BOX 274, Oak Island, NC 28465

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1 The Official Newsletter of the Society of Brunswick Shaggers PO BOX 274, Oak Island, NC Visit our website at: LIKE us on FACEBOOK at: The Beach Beat! Message from our President Board Meeting Minutes 2 Operation Uplink Planning 3 Operation Uplink Letter 4 Operation Uplink Flyer 5 ACSC Workshop Report 6 Hurricane Harvey - FEMA 6 Welcome new SOBS & Guests 7 October Birthdays 7 October DJ Bios 8 Dance Schedule 9 Carolina Shag September Dance Pictures 11 SOBS Membership Form 14 October 13, th Annual Beach Music Shag Dance & Fundraiser benefiting... September was a great month for the club. We had wonderful turnouts at each dance. Our Hot Dog and Hamburger cookout night was enjoyed by all. DJs Eddie Baker and Jim Bruno both kept the dance floor full. The Junior Shaggers dance demonstration was a sight to see. Youth. WOW!!!! I can t believe that Fall is here already. I am right at 92+ miles in my daily ocean swimming trying to have 100 miles at a mile a day for this swim season. Katy and I are enjoying our time dancing. We continue to need volunteers to sign up to be Door Greeters, to do the 50/50,and to help with other duties at upcoming dances. Our Uplink event is the next dance and to make it a success we need your help. Please contact me if you are willing to lend a hand. Thanks to all who have served the club so far this year. An advantage of assisting the club with events is the chance to get know other club members. It is good to see so many of our members step up to help with the decorations and cleanup. Please let me know if you want to help out. Our SOS Club Free Pour at the OD Pavilion was a great time. I counted about 60 club members there. It was a fun afternoon. It was good seeing our club members enjoying this long time tradition. Both Friday and Saturday evenings we saw many SOBS at the OD Beach Club, within the Spanish Galleon complex. In October, we are switching our dance venues. Our October 13 th dance will be at the Moose and the October 27 th dance will be at the VFW. Our Operation Uplink VFW Fundraiser will be Friday, October 13 th at the Moose Lodge. All members should have received their raffle/ admission tickets and event information. We have already had club members sell all of their tickets and donations are starting to come in. We should again have a variety of items. Halloween, Thanksgiving, club elections, and Christmas are all right around the corner, all of these offer great opportunities to get out and dance. Our Thanksgiving and Christmas parties are well attended and this year we will be having a Halloween themed dance since we are flipping the VFW and Moose dances for our Operation Uplink benefit. Our October board meeting date will be Wednesday, October 4 th at 5 PM at the OKI VFW. Let us know if there are club issues that you would like to see us address. We hope to see you on the dance floor! John Hutton, President Your 2017 Society of Brunswick Shaggers Board Members... John Hutton, President Chuck Boney, Vice President Cathy Myers, Secretary Steve Smith, Treasurer Joe Malinowski, Newsletter & Membership

2 O c to b er The Beach B ea t! Page 2 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, September 6, PRESENT: John Hutton, Steve Smith, Cathy Myers, Joe Malinowski The meeting was called to order at 5:05 PM by John Hutton. SECRETARY S REPORT: The August Board Meeting minutes were approved. TREASURER S REPORT: The Treasurer s Report was approved. Checks are needed for the DJs. Balance of unsold SOS tickets will be returned on September 23 rd at the ACSC Meeting. Approval was given to pay the Jr. Shaggers $300 for providing a demonstration at the September 22nd Dance. Also, money was allotted for the Fall Migration Freepour. A tip jar will be provided. If club members do not provide an appropriate tip amount, the club will make up the difference. OLD BUSINESS: The August VFW and Moose Dances were successful with about 60 in attendance each night. John gave the money to Steve for Fun Monday Ticket Sales. Necessary money and unsold tickets returned to Rosemary Parten with ACSC and SOS. Operation Uplink All tickets have been either passed out or mailed. About 5 members have returned funds for their tickets and donations are starting to come in. Need to push on obtaining donations for the event. Cookout grills are ready for September 8 th dance. Still need sign-ups for cooks and helpers. Discussed number of buns and condiments needed. Gary Goldenbaum has offered to be one of the cooks. The SOS Freepour at Fall Migration will be held on Saturday, September 16 th from 2 PM until the money runs out! Wristbands will be used. OD Pavilion will run a tab for domestic canned beer, house brand mixed drinks, wine, water and soda. A tip jar will be provided. Club will make up balance equal to no more than 20%. NEW BUSINESS: September 22 nd dance expense will be $300 for a demo by 3 National Champion Jr. Shaggers. We are requesting to bring in our used dance shoes as a donation to their organization. John will attend the ACSC Meeting on Saturday, September 23 rd at 10 AM in North Myrtle Beach. Annual elections are coming. Ben Hinson & Jim Trent are the Election Slate Committee. Thanksgiving Dance will have club volunteers baking turkeys and hams, with the rest of the club members bringing the sides. The Club will be providing Christmas dinner at the Moose during the December Dance. The OD Shag Club will bring a bus of members to our February 18 th Moose Dance. Vic Gillespie, a board member, is from John s hometown and at one time was the President of our club. He and John will coordinate. The board needs a second club officer to have the ability to contact club members for times when Joe is traveling. Cathy volunteered to assist if necessary. John mentioned that other Shag Clubs have recognition nametags for former club officers. Joe will make them when names/positions are made available. We will be starting our Sunday afternoon Dances at the Lazy Turtle on October 22 nd with DJ Bill Anderson. The series continues with DJ Jim Bruno on November 19 th and Tim Holland on January 21 st. As before we will pass the hat for our DJs at these events, which run from 1-5 PM. Put them on your calendar. MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE REPORT: Joe reports that we are holding at 227 members! The Website is up to date. There is information on the website regarding Operation Uplink. Meeting was adjourned at 5:38 PM. Cathy Myers, Secretary

3 O c to b er The Beach B ea t! Page 3 Operation Uplink on Friday, October 13, (Save the Date!) Greetings Fellow SOBS, Society of Brunswick Shaggers - PO Box Oak Island, NC It is with great excitement that we begin the preparations for our Operation Uplink event to be held on Friday, October 13, 2017 at the OKI Moose Lodge #2059 Family Center. This annual event includes a dance with legendary DJ John Fessa Hook, a Silent auction and a multi-item raffle. The Moose Lodge menu and a full cash bar will be available. All profits from the event will be donated to the VFW s Operation Uplink and Brunswick County s New Hope Clinic. VFW s Operation Uplink provides free call days and Internet time to service men and women across the globe. Hospitalized heroes here at home also benefit from the project. Over the past 12 years the Society of Brunswick Shaggers has donated over $40,000 to this worthy cause. For additional information: uplink@vfw.org or call (816) The New Hope Clinic operates a 4,000 sq. ft. facility in Boiling Spring Lakes where they provide care five days per week and limited services offered at a satellite clinic in Shallotte. In addition to primary medical care, they offer specialty clinics for urology, EKG, dental, diabetes treatment, and medical eye care. There is a limited pharmacy onsite and a Pharmacy Assistance Program. A small staff and over 150 volunteers, including doctors, dentists, FNPs, PAs, pharmacists, nurses, medical & dental assistants, and administrative support personnel, contribute annually over 10,000 volunteer hours to provide nearly 6,000 patient encounters. They help nearly 1,000 patients each year, but the need is even greater. For additional information: newhopeclinicfree.org or call (910) We are inviting you to contribute to this effort. Please consider soliciting items for our auction and raffle. Your community businesses and friends will only know of our event if you help spread the word. A restaurant which you frequent may be interested in donating a gift certificate or a store where you regularly shop may donate an item or a gift card. A letter to introduce our event is being provided to you on page 4 and a flyer on page 5 to print out and take to your friends in the community. The solicitation letter provides a place for you to document the donation in order to properly thank our business community members after the event. It also provides a receipt to the donor. You, yourself may be interested in donating your own handiwork, whether it is a quilt, woodwork, artwork, and jewelry item or pottery piece. Please, only new, unused items. Feel free to purchase items to donate. This is yet another way you can participate. This year we will be mailing out 10 tickets for you to presell and you may pick up additional tickets at the door at any of the dances. You may sell these for $5 or purchase them yourself prior to the event. The ticket stub will be used for door prize drawings. In order to plan for space and maintain organization we are asking you to get items to us as soon as possible. We will accept items until noon on the day of event, but we would prefer to have them in hand by September 22 nd dance at the OKI Moose Lodge. Here are several delivery options: you may bring items to any of the dances before October 13 th ; you may drop off items at South Brunswick High School for Katy O Neill; or call Katy at the number provided and make arrangements to drop off at their home. If you will be bringing a large item to the event (grill, furniture, gardening table, etc.) please assure that one of us is informed! We don t want to run out of space! Please don t hesitate to call us! Thanks for your support of this great event! Co-Chairpersons: Katy O Neill (910) & Patti Smith (910)

4 O c to b er The Beach B ea t! Page 4 Operation Uplink on Friday, October 13, (Save the Date!) Society of Brunswick Shaggers - PO Box Oak Island, NC Dear Community Member, On October 13 th, 2017, the Society of Brunswick Shaggers (SOBS) dance club will hold their 14 th annual Operation Uplink fundraiser at the OKI Moose Lodge on Long Beach Rd, Oak Island. All profits from the event will be donated to the VFW s Operation Uplink and Brunswick County s New Hope Clinic. Our organization has donated over $40,000 through the local VFW to provide US Service men and women with free call days and Internet connections. Our event will include a dance with DJ John Fessa Hook, a Silent Auction, raffles, a 50/50 drawing and door prizes. Would your organization or business be willing to support our event through the donation of items suitable for any of these categories? Examples of items donated in years past include DJ services, gift cards, golf and hotel packages, airplane rides, boat rides, ceramics, works from local artists, a grill, jewelry, tote bags, and services from local area restaurants. If you prefer, we can accept monetary donations from your business. Your name will be entered into the door prize drawing and your company s name/business cards will be prominently featured on our Wall of Fame at the event. The lower portion of this letter will serve as your receipt for your donation. If you need additional information about your donation please contact the Auction Co -Chairs at the numbers listed below. Thank you, John s. Hutton President, SOBS SOBS Club Member Business or Individual Item(s)/amount donated *************************************************************************************** Thank you for your donation of to the Society of Brunswick Shaggers. Your donation will be used for the Operation Uplink auction, raffles or door prize giveaway. Operation Uplink provides free call days and internet services to US service men and women both deployed and hospitalized here at home. For more information use this link: uplink@vfw.org or call (816) We will look forward to adding your company s name to our Wall of Fame at the event on October 13, Operation Uplink Auction Co- Chairs: Patti Smith (910) and Katy O Neill (910)

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6 O c to b er The Beach B ea t! Page ACSC Summer Workshop The Association of Carolina Shag Clubs (ACSC) Summer Workshop was hosted by the Lake Norman Shag Club at the Convention Center in Concord, North Carolina, July Club representatives from all the Association of Carolina Shag Clubs member clubs were present. On Friday, there was a hospitality suite where you could meet up with friends from other clubs including one from Florida. Shag music was provided both nights by Robbie Leggett and Eddie Anderson. The Workshop took place on Saturday from 10 AM to 1:30 PM, during which various awards were given, voting for next year s location took place, and an informative program about the Association of Beach and Shag Club DJs was presented. During the meeting, the SOBS were recognized for winning our category of the April SOS Parade! One of the highlights of the Workshop was a shag lesson given by National Champions Sam and Lisa West, plus a demonstration given by the troupe of Jr. Shaggers, which Sam and Lisa train. The kids really brought down the house! Francis and I enjoyed the whole event and learned more about ACSC and SOS while representing the SOBS at this function. Hurricane Harvey Recovery - FEMA by Joe Malinowski Some of you may know that our son, Joel, was a civilian working for the US Army assigned to Clay Kaserne Army Garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany for the past 3 years. He and his family returned to the States this past January and he took a job as a Network Systems Engineer working for FEMA at Mt. Weather in Virginia. After Hurricane Harvey hit the Houston, TX area August 25, Joel was deployed to help set up FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers and has been there all of September and extended thru October. We have spoke with him on a few occasions and he says that things in the Houston area are still very dire. The trash, debris, and destroyed household items are still outside their houses because they can t be removed until insurance adjusters survey their home site. There is still standing stagnant water and the smell is getting bad. He s been working 7 days a week 14+ hour days. He had his first day off last Sunday and is pretty much running on adrenaline and Guinness! They did a film visit at one of the sites he supports and was caught on TV. The picture is snapshot of the beginning of the video. He s the one with the D on his ball cap DETROIT TIGERS, of course! If you get a chance, please say a prayer for all the FEMA responders, first responders, volunteers, and all the families impacted by these recent natural disasters Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria!

7 O c to b er The Beach B ea t! Page 7 WELCOME to our New Members & Guests... The September 8 th dance at the OKI VFW had a nice crowd of 57 SOBS, 4 members from other shag clubs and 2 guests. We brought back DJ Eddie Baker from last year kept us entertained and dancing the night away. Thanks to John Hutton & Chuck Boney who grilled all the hotdogs and hamburgers on the club and to all who helped decorate and brought great sides and desserts! Our September 22 nd dance at the OKI VFW had 59 SOBS and Jim & Pam Bruno from Coastal Shag Club. Jim Two Wraps Bruno was also our DJ for the evening and kept the floor playing all his classic shag songs. Thanks to Katy O Neill and her crew for the great decorations! Also, thanks to those who brought those great snacks & desserts! You all really keep the SOBS fed! But, the highlight of the evening were the Jr. Shaggers who gave us an incredible exhibition of how the dance is in good hands for years to come! Thanks to President, John Hutton for setting that up! WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST SOBS RONNIE & TINA CHILD, CHRISTINE CLIFTON, GREG & ANNE LOOMIS From our Friends at Coastal Shag Club (CSC)... Coastal Shag Club shag dances are on the 3rd Saturday of each month at the Moose Lodge, 253 Holden Beach Road, Shallotte, NC. Cost is $5 for CSC members and members of other Shag Clubs, $8/all other guests. Doors open at 6:30 PM and dance is 7:00 to 10:30 PM. Ask for a Basic Dance Lesson FREE to those staying for the dance. Fantastic non-smoking dance room with large wooden dance floor, 50/50 raffle, and cash bar. Please bring a snack or dessert to share. We re located just 20 minutes north of Ocean Drive and Main Street. Come join Brunswick County's friendliest shag club! Visit their website at: Our October Birthdays... 5th Beth Sykes 5th Henry Webster 6th Joanie Clasper 7th Linda Castro 7th Bernadette Clinton 9th Dee Crocker 13th Debi Ranieri 14th Bruce Bauer 15th Betty Lewis 15th Eric Nielsen 16th Jerry DeMeyer 18th Rose Abandola 20th Gayle Kutyla 21st Vicki Pelfrey 22nd Dan Corcoran 22nd Bahre Willis 23rd John Swanko 24th Marilyn Barstow 24th Evelyn Buffkin 24th Tanya Nickson 24th Terry Ramos 26th Sandy Haynes 28th Judy Koehly

8 O c to b er The Beach B ea t! Page 8 October DJ Information... Fellow SOBS Summer is gone, but it gave us many great opportunities to dance. DJs Eddie Baker and Jim Bruno did a great job for the club at our September dances. The ocean and beach continue to offer an idyllic lifestyle. Please note that our dances are reversed with the first dance at the Moose Lodge and our second dance at the Oak Island VFW. October will also be the first month of our Sunday dance series at The Lazy Turtle Bar & Grill on Oak Island. Spinning the discs for these October dances are: Friday, October 13 th - DJ Fessa John OKI Moose Lodge Sunday, October 22 nd - DJ Bill The Lazy Turtle Bar & Grill Friday, October 27 th - DJ Gene OKI VFW Fessa John Hook will be playing at our Friday, October 13 th Operation Uplink VFW Fundraiser event. The Fessa is one of the Legendary DJs of Beach Music. John has been involved in Beach Music since the early 1970 s. He is the author of Shagging in the Carolinas which chronicles the history of Shag dancing and beach music. His latest publication is the 2 volume set Beach Music Guide, which contains extensive information on Beach Music artists and entries of over 26,000 beach music songs. He now syndicates three radio shows weekly on 58+ radio stations across the United States and has been affiliated with numerous radio stations through the years and is now locally on 94.1 FM The Beach in Wilmington. He has an internet presence with his Jukin Oldies programs. His thorough knowledge of beach music has rightly earned him his nickname of Fessa. He has played our Operation Uplink party for many years. Bill Anderson will be the DJ for the first of our 2 nd season of Sunday Series dances at the Oceanfront Lazy Turtle Bar & Grill. The dances which we had last fall and winter were well attended. Bill played for us in January of this year at The Lazy Turtle for a fun afternoon. He is both a member of the Coastal Shag Club and is an SOBS. Bill plays regularly for the Coastal Club and is looking forward to The Lazy Turtle. Make that Sunday afternoon a beach day and dance afternoon. Gene Sistare will be playing our Halloween dance for us. This will be our first Halloween dance in a long time. In years past we have had some great costumes. Gene has played for us many times and keeps the dance floor full. He is from Lancaster, SC. Gene has been involved with the Lancaster Shag Club since 1993 and began doing DJ work in Since 2000 he has been a staff DJ at the Beach Music Cafe and the Spanish Galleon Nightclub both in the Ocean Drive Beach and Golf Resort. In addition he is a staff DJ at Fat Harold s Beach club where he plays each month and during SOS events. Gene is a lifetime member of the Association of Beach and Shag Club DJ s and is also a member of the National Association of Rhythm and Blues DJ s, he has played for over 50 different Shag clubs over the years. Gene is one of the DJ s on the Embers Band Making Waves cruise and was recently inducted into the DJ Hall of Fame. Gene is also one of the DJ s that donates to our Operation Uplink event. Put this on your calendar and get out your dancing shoes. We have great DJ s this month. Katy continues to work and is looking forward to a January 2018 retirement. We continue to enjoy the Shag lifestyle as much as is possible and are looking forward to seeing all you SOBS at our upcoming dances. John Hutton, DJ Selection

9 O c to b er The Beach B ea t! Page Dance Party Schedule (Subject to Change!)... ALL DANCES BEGIN AT 6:00 PM, WITH MOST DANCES HAVING A SHAG OR LINE DANCE LESSON AT THE BEGINNING! DATE LOCATION DJ THEME FOOD DOOR 50/50 LESSON OCTOBER 13 OKI MOOSE LODGE JOHN HOOK OPERATION UPLINK MOOSE MENU N/A OCTOBER 22 OKI - THE LAZY TURTLE BAR & GRILL SOBS SUNDAY SERIES DANCE DJ BILL ANDERSON OCTOBER 27 OKI VFW GENE SISTARE HALLOWEEN FRANCIS & CATHY MYERS LINE DANCE NOVEMBER 10 OKI MOOSE LODGE ROBERT CARTER THANKSGIVING SHAG NOVEMBER 19 OKI - THE LAZY TURTLE BAR & GRILL SOBS SUNDAY SERIES DANCE DJ JIM TWO WRAPS BRUNO DECEMBER 9 OKI MOOSE LODGE JERRY BURRAGE CHRISTMAS PARTY N/A JANUARY 21, 2018 OKI - THE LAZY TURTLE BAR & GRILL SOBS SUNDAY SERIES DANCE DJ TIM HOLLAND The Society of Brunswick Shaggers is a proud member of The Association of Carolina Shag Clubs (ACSC) and SOS (Society of Stranders). The SOS Website can be found at: SOBS Sunday Series Dances at The Lazy Turtle Bar & Grill Hey SOBS! Our SOBS Sunday Series shag dances begin again at The Lazy Turtle Bar & Grill on the OKI ocean front! Bill Anderson will be the DJ for the first of our 2 nd season of Sunday Series dances on October 22 from 1 PM to 5 PM. All of our Sunday Series dances are at no charge. Drinks & The Lazy Turtle menu will be available for purchase. The dances we had last fall and winter were well attended. Our next Sunday Series dance will then be on November 19 th with DJ Jim Two Wraps Bruno. More details will follow as we get closer to those dates. We re just trying to give you a few more opportunities to wear out those Weejuns!

10 O c to b er The Beach B ea t! Page 10 The Carolina Shag By Sonny Watson s (StreetSwing.com) The Carolina Shag is considered a main form of Swing Dance. It is the Official State Dance of South Carolina (since 1984.) Originally written, the Carolina Shag formed out of the Charleston, and Collegiate Shag. However, today there is no resemblance to them at all. The name, Carolina Shag originated at Myrtle Beach in SC in the 1930's, when back then, the dance was originally a mix of the Charleston and Collegiate Shag (according to 10/1938-Dance Index Magazine's article on the dance. "Carolina Shag" descriptions) with some of the original basic steps being called the: Cuban Step, Shuffle, Twinkle, etc. The original Carolina Shag as a dance is said to have originated in Atlantic Beach area, and was known prior as just along the coasts between Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and Wellington, North Carolina. Most agree on the modern form of the dance being danced in the Myrtle Beach area (The Pavilion?) in the mid 1940s (WWII) when the R&B bands were playing the beaches and the clubs. As time went on the music slowed down considerably as well as the shaggers. Billy Jeffers, Chicken Hicks and "Big" George Lineberry are credited for developing the Shag that we see today. The music and the times changed the dance up to its current look and feel (It has a great feel by the way.) Dancing on the beach (sand) helped change this dance as well, plus that's how it got it's nickname "Beach Dancing" and/or "Beach Music." In 1954 Hurricane Hazel had demolished most of the old dance pavilions and Rock and roll music was taking over the airwaves. By the 1960s almost all couples dancing was in a steep decline, including the Shag. It got a second wind during the 1970's and has been getting more popular than ever before. Today, it is basically a slotted East Coast Swing style dance with a splash of the West Coast Swing slot or a kind of slotted east coast swing, including both 6 and 8 count patterns. The "Shag" consists mainly of fancy footwork by the leader, with the follower matching the leader's footwork occasionally. In the past it was the lady who called out the footwork she wanted to "mirror" or follow (The follower occasionally will call out a name of footwork or a sequence and the leader will then lead it with her). Choreography usually is not done socially or competitively (but that's slowly changing) except in team competition. There are very few patterns/spins done in Carolina Shag (originally due to beach/ sand dancing) however there is an immense amount of "footwork." The dance has a very laid back and easy look to it as well with the shaggers mainly focusing on each other rather than showcasing the audience (looking at the audience more than each other.) Generally, there are very few times when both hands are used when leading... (like two handed patterns/wraps etc.,) with almost the entire dance using only a one handed connection. Some claim the Carolina shag as pre-existing the Lindy Hop due to some music title's having the Shag in its name or description, however they are confusing the earlier "Collegiate Shag" with the later Carolina version. The earliest mention of the Carolina Shag I have found, with the actual words "Carolina Shag or it's modern day description" of the dance is (if anyone has other information, I would like to see it... and will gladly make corrections... not hearsay, myths etc.) There are basically four dances known as Shag... Carolina Shag", "Arthur Murray Shag" aka "Collegiate Shag" and "Saint Louis Shag" all are different to one another except Collegiate/Murray Shags while the Carolina Shag is the only one that is a main swing form/style, the others are companion dances to swing like the Charleston, Shim-Sham Shimmee, Balboa, Truckin', Black Bottom etc. Carolina Shag became known as "Beach Swing" and was done to "Beach Music," which was basically old Motown, Blues and Oldies music today. The Shag is done primarily in the Southern States such as Florida, the Carolina's, Virginia, Georgia, etc. and has a very smooth, and very connected feel with your partner and the music. Today, West Coast Swing and Shag are starting to merge by some folks in both dance worlds due to the US Open Swing Dance Championships with the best qualities of each of the two together and forming a newer, but not as popular a style called SWAG! It's really cool though, unlike the name lol. However, the Carolina Shag will always be a mainstay in the Carolina Swing Dance communities. Shag became the official state dance of South Carolina in Many folks ask what style of swing (aka Jitterbug) is best, West Coast, East Coast, Whip, Push, Lindy, Shag, etc. However, there is no best style. The best style would depend on what type of music you are dancing to at the time, Geographies, who your partner is, the theme of the dance being held, the speed in which the music is played and the dance knowledge of you and or your partner. If you're partner only knows one style of swing, then their style would be the best style to dance with them at that time. If they only know one style they usually will declare that the style they know is the best style above all other styles and usually will make derogatory statements for many varied reasons. Swing (aka Shag, Whip, Push, New Yorker, Jitterbug, etc.) is a wonderful dance form in all it's versions that fits all types of Music, Personalities, Finances etc. Calling yourself a swing dancer means you can at least do the basics in many forms of swing and a few well. So learn to swing dance whatever style, you're unique and your dances should be varied and your style should represent your knowledge of dance that other, newer dancers (and they are the majority) don't possess, not limited to only one. However you will eventually find you like them all and soon you will understand the importance of them all as well as understand why there are different styles to begin with. So enjoy them and mainly smile, laugh and have fun!

11 Pictures from our September 8 th OKI VFW The September 8 th dance at the OKI VFW had a nice crowd of 57 SOBS, 4 members from other shag clubs and 2 guests. We brought back DJ Eddie Baker from last year kept us entertained and dancing the night away. Thanks to John Hutton & Chuck Boney who grilled all the hotdogs and hamburgers on the club and to all who helped decorate and brought great sides and desserts!

12 Pictures from our September 16 th Free OD Pavilion Our September 16 th Club Free Pour at the OD Pavilion had a nice showing of at least 70 SOBS. It was beautiful hot & sweaty afternoon as we drank our Free Pour budget in about 2 hours! A great time for the club and shag fellowship!

13 Pictures from our September 22 nd OKI VFW Our September 22 nd dance at the OKI VFW had 59 SOBS and Jim & Pam Bruno from Coastal Shag Club. Jim Bruno was also our DJ for the evening and kept the floor playing all his classic shag songs. Thanks to those who brought those great snacks & desserts! The highlight of the evening were the incredible Jr. Shaggers who gave us an exhibition of how the dance is in good hands for years to come! Thanks to President, John Hutton for setting that up!

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