ABOUT SCC

THE SIMS COUNTRY CLOGGERS consist of Pee Wee, Elementary, Junior, Senior, and Adult Competition Teams and Beginner through Intermediate and Advanced dancers.  We used to practice at Sims Country BBQ in Dudley Shoals, NC, near Hickory.  In April, 2006, we moved into our new studio which has three studio rooms and a great Air Conditioner!  Our dancers range in age from 3 to Adults and come from all around the Catawba Valley.  We have cloggers from Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln, and Wilkes counties.  We love to clog at events in our area and beyond.  Here are some of the things we do as a team:

Locally:  We can be spotted dancing at Sims BBQ, the Molasses Festival, Hudson Butterfly Festival, Caldwell County Fair, at events all across our area; SCC holds Car Washes and Other Fundraisers to help with uniform expenses and travel for competition teams;  Other places we have danced include the Taylorsville Apple Festival, Hickory Crawdad’s Stadium, St. Matthews Fall Fair, Art on the Avenue in Hickory, Caldwell County Schools Teacher Assistant Banquet, Valdese Elementary School's Cultural Arts Celebration, Liberty Middle School's AE Ceremony, and the Foothills Antique Power Association Tractor Show.   More performances include - the Duke Power Retirees in Hickory, Frye Regional Medical Center's Weight Loss Gala, Helping Hands Clinic Pot of Gold Fundraiser, Caldwell Reads, Longview Elementary's Cultural Fair, Granite Falls Middle School St. Patrick's Day, Carolina Piedmont Pageant, NC Permitting Association, and Viewmont Elementary School's Multicultural Night.  Most recently we performed at the Piedmont Girl Scout Council meeting, the Lutheran Home of Hickory, Dudley Shoals Baptist Church Block Party & the Granite Falls Festival on Main. We also fill in regularly for the Tweetsie Cloggers at Tweetsie Railroad.  Our Summer Parties have been at Hickory Dickory Dock, Steele Creek, and Local Rec Departments.  We have studio Easter Egg Hunts and Haunted Hayrides.  SCC holds summer camps for new or beginner cloggers all the way through advanced dancers...camps are open to anyone.  The Sims Country Cloggers hold a yearly recital in which all of our groups participate and receive an award.  Some of our recent recital themes have been “Blast from the Past, ” "Entertainment Review:  What's on TV," "SCC's Wide World of Sports."  Our 2008 Recital was Clogging Through Time & Our 2009 Recital was Clogging in America.  More about recitals can be found on the Recital Page.  

Our Show Fundraiser, “Carolina Traditions” is held in April.  Thank you to the Tanner Mundy and the Little Rascals and Little River Boys, Sweetbriar Jam, the St. Joseph's Irish Dancers, Charles Bowman, the Flowers Family for helping us out with the entertainment.  Our 2010 show is being planned - check back for details!

The Sims Country Cloggers also host the Foothills Clogging Challenge the third Saturday in August.  Several teams from all over the Southeast come to compete at the Civic Center.  In 2010, the Foothills Clogging Challenge in August 21, 2010.

Farther From Home:  Our Competition and Junior Olympics Team Has traveled all over the South and the US to places such as Detroit, Michigan, Amherstburg, Canada, St. Louis Missouri, Des Moines, Iowa, Paducah Kentucky, Charleston, SC, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Nashville and Gatlinburg, TN.  We also performed at the Tim McGraw Concert at the Alltel Pavillion in Raleigh, NC.  In August 2007, the Sims Country Cloggers performed at Disney World in Orlando, FL.  Our Summer 2008 Trip was in Myrtle Beach, SC. We danced at the Palace Theater and Dixie Stampede.  Our 2009 trip was to Williamsburg VA to the Great Wolf Lodge and to Virginia Beach - Beach Street USA!

NCCA - Jill Kohnle-Kirby, Director of SCC, is the Founder-President of the new North Carolina Clogging Association, established in May of 2004.  We have planned and held events in Greensboro at the Coliseum, Wimington, Hickory, Fontana Village, and Mars Hill College.  Our next event is the Hickory Hoedown on November 19-21.  Visit www.clognc.com  for more info about the NCCA.

Hickory Hoedown - November 19-21, 2010- We are hosting a Clogging Workshop at the Hickory Metro Center.  Contact Jill for more information!

Please contact Director Jill Kirby at 828-396-2052 or email simscountrycloggers@yahoo.com if you have questions!

Below:  SCC performs at Viewmont Elementary School's Multicultural Night