​THE CARROLL COUNTY CLOGGERS

THANK YOU

FOR YOUR SUPPORT
AND ATTENDANCE
AT THE
MASON DIXON SPRING STOMP
​2025!

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​Mason Dixon Spring Stomp 2026
​Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026
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Featured Instructor: Shane Gruber

Location:

North Carroll Community School
401 Stone Road
Westminster, MD 21158

For more information:

Email: [email protected]
Lynn Grassi: 410-428-6992/[email protected]
​Lora Strosnider: 443-605-3237/[email protected]







​2025 Shirt


​Thank you for supporting the Mason Dixon Spring Stomp 2025 with the purchase of our event shirt.

Featuring

Trevor DeWitt

Trevor DeWitt began clogging around the age of 7ish when his Mom took him along for class. He picked it up quickly and started teaching his local club in his early teens. In 2000 Trevor taught his first clogging workshop at the USA National Clogging Convention. He hosts the Spring Lake Cumberland Workshop the last full weekend of April each year in Jamestown Kentucky with a lake view off the balcony. Trevor has traveled around the world teaching clogging including at the Canadian National Clogging Convention as well as the Australian National Clogging Convention. Trevor also owns and operates Clogdancing.com.
 
Professionally, Trevor works for Tyler Technologies implementing Court and Justice software for Judges and Clerks across the USA. In his spare time he enjoys photography and reading.

Local 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, and is Clogging Advisor to the Washington Area Squaredance Cooperative Association.

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 Country Recreation Authority.  Her personal website is currently www.kamclogger.org, and the Calico Cloggers site is www.calicocloggers.us.
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Kathy was a web developer, working as a contractor for the National Weather Service National Centers for Environmental Prediction.  She retired in April 2023.  Retirement was derailed by catching Lyme Disease, which attacked her right facial nerve, and she is still recovering from that.  Then in January 2024, her partner of 25 years, Paul D'Alessandro, passed away from lung cancer.  She is currently taking things one day at a time.  Clogging is still very much a part of her life.

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.

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!!

Lisa Scanlon

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Lisa has been clogging for nearly 15 years, starting at age 8 with the Footnotes Cloggers right here in Carroll County. She quickly fell in love with the dance style and began performing in school and local talent shows throughout elementary, middle, and high school. During her time at Elizabethtown College, Lisa choreographed a clogging routine for the dance club, Emotion, which sparked her passion for teaching. Lisa now teaches advanced-level clogging at E-Dance Studio in Lancaster County, where she choreographs routines for a group of high school dancers. The Mason Dixon Spring Stomp holds a special place in her heart as the first workshop she ever attended, so it’s especially meaningful for it to also be her first time teaching at a workshop! When she’s not clogging, Lisa works as a Management Trainee at a regional bank, enjoys reading, line dancing, golfing, and is learning to play guitar. She’s excited to share her love of clogging and can’t wait to dance with everyone at the workshop!

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]

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.

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!
The Mason Dixon Spring Stomp 2025 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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