The theme for this year's Mason Dixon Spring Stomp is "In My Clogging Era" from the "Hippie Counterculture" movement of the 1960's and 1970's. Hippies favored peace, love and personal freedom. They often wore colorful clothing and traveled the country in decorated Volkswagen buses. Think "Flower Power", "Peace" signs, VW buses, Suede Fringed Vests, Flower Crown Headbands for the Gals, Suede Fringed Headbands for the Guys, Hippie Round Glasses and Wide Legged Colorful Pants. Costumes are encouraged for the Fun Dance.

Location:

Schedule
North Carroll Community School
401 Stone Road
Westminster, MD 21158
8am                  Check-in/Registration
9am-12pm      Dance Teaches
9-11am             Beginner from Scratch Class
12-1pm             LUNCH
1-5pm              Dance Teaches
5-6pm              DINNER
6-8pm              FUN DANCE (Costumes encouraged)
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February 6, 2026 Deadline for...

Early Registration 
T-Shirt Order 
Print Syllabus Order 
Lunch & Dinner Orders
Dancer Fee before February 6, 2026 - $30
Dancer Fee after February 6, 2026 - $35
Spectator Fee - $5
Video Fee - There is no charge to video. Please get the instructor's permission before doing so.
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Payment Methods Accepted: Cash or Check payable to Carroll County Cloggers
We are unable to accept any other form of payment at this time.

On-line registration is NOT available at this time. Please download the registration form by clicking on the button below. Complete, sign and mail with payment to:

Lora Strosnider
8502 Forest Stream Club Rd
Keymar, MD 21757

For more information...

[email protected]
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Mason Dixon Spring Stomp 2026 Event Shirt





This year's Mason Dixon Spring Stomp 2026 Event Shirt is a Gildan 64000 Softstyle Short Sleeve T-Shirt in Heather Orange. It is available in both Youth and Adult sizes. Use the buttons below to get more information about the shirt sizing, wear and material.

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Deadline
for T-Shirt Order
is February 6, 2026
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Meals Available On-Site

Lunch and Dinner can be pre-ordered and purchased. Deadline for meal orders is February 6, 2026.
​There will be limited meal tickets available for purchase on the day of the event.
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Lunch for $10
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​Pizza provided by
Mediterraneo's Ristorante Italiano,
salad and beverage.

Dinner for $20
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Pulled chicken, pulled pork, mac & cheese, green beans, sliders, cornbread and beverage.

Featuring

Shane Gruber

Shane Gruber highlights
. Started clogging in 1989
. Taught first workshop 1992 for MCIC(Michigan Clogging Instructors Council)
. Started a credited clogging course at CMU 1996-1998 (Central Michigan University)
. Earned his CCI in 1996 (Certified Clogging Instructor)
. Taught at the National Clogging Convention for 29 years
. Taught at workshops around the US, Canada – (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario)
Germany, Australia - (Darwin), Czech Republic and 3 Caribbean cruises
. Former President of the Orchesis Dance Theater at Central Michigan University
. Choreographed 13 show clogging pieces for the Orchesis Dance Theater
. Taught at the American College Dance Festival at Penn State PA
. Co-choreographed a 4th place modern dance piece for ACDFA in 1994
. Performed at the Austria Performing Arts Festival with the Main Street Cloggers 1997 . Performed in the show Rhythm Dance at Silver Dollar City Branson, MO 1999
. Taught actor Mike O’Malley clogging for the 2011 movie Cedar Rapids
. Can be seen in the DVD extras for Cedar Rapids under Mike O’Malley Urban Clogger . Inducted into the Western New York Clogging Association Hall of Fame 2011
. Became a member on the Board of Directors for CLOG August 2012
. Current instructor of the Shanegang Cloggers
. Mentor in the CCI program and evaluator for testing
  • –  Former Giftshop Manager for The Motorsports Hall of Fame in Novi, MI
  • –  Worked in the Telecom industry for 10 years with Michigan Network Services until it closed. 

Regional Instructors

Addison Birkmire

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Addison is excited to return to the Mason Dixon Spring Stomp alongside many talented friends including his sister Chynna! Addison loves clogging and teaches intermediate traditional at his home studio Sole Impact in Boone NC. Along with clogging, Addison loves theater, and you may have seen him dancing in the 50’s area at Dollywood this past Summer, protecting the gold as a Cowboy at Tweetsie Railroad, or right up the mountain at the Land of Oz as a dancing farmhand! Addisons love for clogging has taken him many places in the Eastern United States, as well as overseas to the Netherlands when he performed with the Bailey Mountain Cloggers in 2018. He hopes everyone is ready to put their dancing shoes on and cut footloose! 

Kathy Moore

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Kathy learned to clog from Tandy Barrett in 1985, while living in Atlanta, GA. She is currently the director of the Calico Cloggers of Northern Virginia. She was the Clogging Advisor to the Washington Area Squaredance Cooperative Association for 17 years, where she directed the festival clogging program for 6 years.
Kathy completed the CLOG Certified Clogging Instructor program in 2004. She has taught at various clogging and square dance workshops around the East Coast, as well as classes with Fairfax County Recreation Authority. Her personal website is www.kamklogger.org, and the Calico Cloggers site is www.calicocloggers.org.
Kathy retired May 2023 from her job as a web developer, working for the National Weather Service National Centers for Environmental Prediction. She finds some time for bike riding and tennis, but spends more time on yard work and decluttering.  She has 4 cats: Rory, Elspeth, Gilda, and Dobby.

Pam Smiley

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Pam has been involved in every aspect of clogging since she began in 1980.  Her love of percussive dance led her to clogging and the tradition of the dance grabbed her heart.  Living in California where clogging was in it’s infancy at the time, she traveled to get more exposure to every aspect of the culture of clogging meeting so many people along the way.   Pam has clogged in 18 states and on a cruise ship in the Caribbean and has a goal to clog in every state.

Pam began with a performance team 4 months after starting her journey and has danced with several different groups though the years.  Clogging has given Pam the opportunity to do so many things that without clogging would probably not have been afforded to her including dancing in many types of shows from County Fairs to an International Dance Festival with Sammy Davis Jr. and more.

Pam has been a competitive clogger (singles, duos and team) and directed 3 clogging workshops for a total of 22 years, one of them she also taught at for 12 years.  Pam is also a certified NCHC judge and has judged competitions all over the country.   Pam is currently the editor of the CLOG Today magazine published by C.L.O.G. 
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With all of the things clogging has given to her, the biggest is the relationships.  Pam can say that clogging as given her the opportunity to meet so many people around the country and the world and counts them all as family.

Chynna Birkmire

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Chynna, 25, is originally from Maryland, but now resides in North Carolina, and has been clogging the majority of her life! She earned her C.C.I. through CLOG in 2016 and loves sharing her passion for clogging. She has clogged with many clogging teams over the years include American Racket, TNC Elite, Bailey Mountain Cloggers and her home team Sole Impact Studios in Boone, NC, where she currently teaches and coaches their competition teams. She’s been crowned Miss Southeastern Clogger and Miss ACHF Traditional Ambassador and has won two national grand champion titles for her solos, as well as a national grand champion title for her duet with her brother Addison at the 2024 NCHC Nationals in Nashville, TN. She has also clogged at places like the Carolina Opry with All That!, Tunes and Tales in Gatlinburg, and Folkmoot International Dance festival. In addition to clogging, Chynna performs at Dollywood and Tweetsie Railroad as well as other local regional theatres. She’s excited to be back to teach!!

Becky Morehouse

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Becky began her clogging adventure in 1990 when she enrolled her two young daughters, ages 8 and 5, into the beginner class with the Calico Cloggers of Maryland.  Becky thought that by enrolling them and having to “help” them practice between classes that she could secretly pick up some of the dance herself.  But she quickly learned that you can’t just sit in the room and watch; and clogging soon became their family “sport.”  As Calico Clogger members, her family often performed demos in the Columbia area, as well as regularly supported the Carroll County Cloggers in their local demos.  Becky went on to bring up two more children in the world of clogging, dancing weekly, and her family of five regularly participating in performances.  When Calico Cloggers disbanded in 1999, it just wasn’t an option to not clog.  So, in 2000, Becky started her own dance group, Footnotes, and she began teaching through Carroll County Department of Recreation & Parks.  Becky enjoys choreographing routines with her daughters, and for the past 26 years, she has offered clogging classes every Monday night, hoping to do her part in growing and keeping clogging alive in Maryland!

Mary Smith

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​Mary Smith is a native of the plains of rural northeastern Montana. The roots of clogging lie deep in her heritage as her grandparents include natives of Ireland and the mountains of southwestern Virginia. Mary moved to Austin, Texas, in the early 1980s upon college graduation, and it was there, in the fall of 1987, that she took a class in beginning clog dancing. She got on stage for the first time as a performer in the spring of 1988 and by 1990 was teaching the beginner lessons for her group, the Clickety Cloggers. At this time she also became the director of the group's exhibition team and began choreographing routines. She continued in this capacity until a job change brought her to the Washington, DC, area in the fall of 1995. She was no longer clogging with a group but returned to Texas twice a year to teach at clogging workshops.
 
In June of 1997, she was approached by a member of a local clogging group whose instructor was moving and was asked to fill the instructor's shoes. The group reorganized and the Blue Ridge Thunder Cloggers were born.  Mary continues as the lead instructor for BRTC and teaches at various workshops around the East Coast and Texas.

Joyce Guthrie

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 “My only regret is that I didn’t find clogging earlier in life!”  Joyce has been dancing since 1997 and is proud to be a part of the Blue Ridge Thunder Cloggers. She achieved CCI certification through CLOG, the national clogging organization, in 2010.
 
A graduate of the University of Florida (Go, Gators!), Joyce spent some interesting years as a trauma nurse. She set aside her stethoscope to love and homeschool her seven children. Now that they are grown, she dedicates her time and talents to nonprofit organizations, which keep her involved with teen safe driving, education, community service, faith-based initiatives and clogging:-) 
 
Joyce is Vice President and Co-Dance Instructor with Blue Ridge Thunder Cloggers (BRTC).  She loves farm life, quilting, sign language, overalls, Mac computers, clogging and choreography. In her spare time, she maintains a comprehensive list/interactive map of clogging groups around the world.    
www.iClog.us     [email protected]

Janet Sileo

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Janet Sileo began clogging in Mountain View, Arkansas in 1990 with the Ozark Foothill Cloggers.  Clogging is an important part of the Ozark Mountain heritage, and the passion the community showed for folk dancing was contagious.  Janet joined the Cardinal Cloggers in 2004 when she relocated to Northern Virginia with her husband, Thomas.  
 
She loves teaching, traveling to workshops, and choreographing, but her favorite part of clogging is the special friendships she has forged through dance.  Janet is a Certified Clogging Instructor.

Lora Strosnider

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​​Lora loves all things performance related. She owns Take the Stage Drama School and has performed in numerous plays, movies and commercials. Lora has always wanted to dance and that dream became a reality when she joined the Carroll County Cloggers in 2019; she has been going strong ever since. Lora currently holds the position of Vice President and Booking Agent for the CCC and is furthering her education by pursuing a Certified Clogging Instructor Certificate. Many thanks to Carroll County Cloggers for allowing her to teach at MDSS and assisting her in the pursuit of this goal. Lora hales from the small town of Detour, Maryland and lives with her husband of 47 years.

Jayne Treadwell

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A 3rd generation clogger, Jayne's love affair with clogging began in 1980 when her granddaddy decided to learn to clog....at 65 years young! Soon after, “Pappy” took his grandkids out to his barn and taught them to clog, living to see four generations of his family become accomplished cloggers.
 
Jayne began teaching clogging in 1985, and in 1991 founded the East Country Hoedowners clogging team. Jayne proudly led her team as they performed and competed throughout the southeastern United States, performed in our nation’s capital, and made annual television appearances on the WCTI-TV 12 Cystic Fibrosis Telethon for over 30 years.
 
A gifted choreographer and dedicated instructor, Jayne is passionate about teaching proper movement and technique at all levels and styles of clogging: Beginners from Scratch, Flatfootin’, Buckdancing, traditional southern Appalachian freestyle routines, duos and duets, and choreographed line dances (traditional and contemporary). With a strong background in traditional/drag-slide clogging, Jayne’s priority is to pass these traditions down to the next generation, educating them on the roots of clogging, and encouraging all cloggers to “keep the tradition alive”.
 
Jayne teaches at public and private workshops and conventions in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Kentucky. She even spent two unforgettable weeks teaching in Germany. She loves working one-on-one with teams and is available for private workshops.
 
Jayne was named to the National Clogging and Hoedown Council All-Star Team in 1994 and the America’s Clogging Hall of Fame All American Team in 1996, and appeared on TNN’s Club Dance in 1996. Throughout her clogging career Jayne has had the privilege of being a guest performer on numerous clogging teams: Panther Creek Mountain Dancers (FL), Fantasia Express (NC), Dazzlin’ Image (VA), Cripple Creek (NC), Flatland (VA), Carolina Heartland (NC), Little River (NC), Wagon Wheel (NC), Carolina Fusion (NC), Lutheridge (NC), Rhythmic Alliance (VA), and Southern Mountain Fire Cloggers (NC).
 
Available for purchase at today’s workshop, Jayne’s popular instructional DVD, "Building on the Basic", is a great resource for those just learning to clog, and anyone wanting to improve their freestyle or put more style in their steps.
 
Born and raised in eastern North Carolina, Jayne moved to northern Virginia in November 2012. Jayne is super excited to teach this weekend and looks forward to encouraging you in your clogging journey!

Theresa Werner

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Theresa Werner has been clogging since she was 13 years old.  She is the founder and director of the Cardinal Cloggers. She is a Certified Clogging Instructor and loves to teach clogging.  Theresa is an award-winning journalist, currently working at PBS Newshour.  She was the first freelance journalist elected president of the National Press Club, the world’s leading professional organization for journalist. 
Theresa’s dad was a 30-year navy veteran, and his service inspired her to support and honor our nation’s veterans. She is on the national board of the Honor Flight Network, helping to bring veterans to the nation’s capital for a day of honor.
When Theresa isn’t dancing, she loves to travel and explore new places.

The
​Carroll County Cloggers
Welcome You
To The
Mason Dixon
​Spring Stomp 2026
The Mason Dixon Spring Stomp 2026 is funded in part by an Arts Opportunity Mini Grant from the Carroll County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council.
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