Jeff Driggs grew up in West Virginia, the 3rd of 6 boys. He took up square dancing with his family as a youngster and began calling square dances as a teen in the early 70’s, where he had the opportunity to learn from many of Appalachia’s best western-style and old time callers.

Jeff began clogging in 1979, where he danced to the live bluegrass music every weekend at the clogging halls around his town. Soon after, he joined a local performing group.  At an open-mic teaching session at Fontana in 1983 he caught the eye of Bobbie and Dewey Paul of Ohio, who offered him a staff teaching spot the following year. Jeff’s skill as a cuer and his humorous presentation style struck a chord with dancers, and offers for more workshops came in.

Since then, Jeff’s teaching schedule has grown to include dozens of workshop appearances a year. He has taught in all 50 United States, as well as Canada, Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Australia. 

As a performer, Jeff has made several appearances with the Opry Square Dancers on the Grand Ole Opry, performed on the Hee Haw Road Show, the Nashville network, in an episode of Bizarre Foods (clogging with friend Lou Mauri and sharing his cooking skills) and in openers for shows with music artists Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs and many others.  As a competitor in the 1980s he was a USA male champion and two time national duo champion.

His choreography is taught, danced, and appreciated internationally. His routines have been performed around the world and he has produced choreo for parades, international festivals, Bowl Game Halftime Shows, theme parks and much more.   Jeff wrote a musical that has been developed for the stage and has met with Hollywood producers to include clogging in several high profile projects.    He is always advocating for clogging to be seen in a positive light.

Jeff, partnering with Lee Froehle, coordinate the performance of over 1,000 dancers in the USA Independence Day Parade in Washington, DC, and they have hosted hundreds of dancers on cruises and trips to Hawaii that gave cloggers the chance to perform and compete in unique and exotic places.

He recorded several records for the Clog Cue Series which sold tens of thousands of copies.  And he arranged and recorded his own cued music series which was also very successful.

Jeff was the owner and editor of the Double Toe Times clogging magazine for many years, read by thousands of cloggers around the world for more than 30 years.

He has served on the board of several national clogging organizations, taught judging at the highest levels and helped to develop software applications that help with competition registration and scoring.

He is a coordinator of the Cabin Fever Workshop each February in Ohio with the Buckeye Country Cloggers, the World of Clogging Workshop and Competition in May in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Fontana Clogging Jamboree each September at the legendary Fontana Village Resort in North Carolina and the Fall Classic Clogging Championships in Kentucky in November.

Jeff has been given much recognition for his achievements and many awards. He was honored with the Pioneer Award from the National Clogging Leaders Organization, the Legacy Award from the Clogging Champions of America, and in 2014 was inducted into America’s Clogging Hall of Fame for his many accomplishments as a teacher, mentor, promoter and ambassador of clogging.

Jeff lives in Winfield, West Virginia where he works for the West Virginia University School of Medicine and Health Sciences campus. He is also an accomplished singer, songwriter and author.

All "cowboyed up" for a Square Dance - 1980

Dancing at Hoedown Island, KY with Scotty McKee - 1985

Workshopping in San Antonio Texas with Scotty Bilz - 1986

At Fontana Village NC for the Easter Weekend Possum Hooler Workshop with Chip Summey - late 1980's

Duet Partner Joyce Hensley of Florida - mid 1980's

With the Williams Family Cloggers of Utah

Making a new friend down under - 1986

At BYU with Scotty Bilz, Tandy Barrett, Jeff Parrott, Vickie Austin, and Chip Woodall - 1989

Backstage at the Opry - 2003

Dancing on the Grand Ole Opry - 2003

Reno NV 2003

Celebrating ALL THAT's Clogging on "Dance Fever" with Steve and Janet Smith, Mike Curtis, Jared Smith and Jeff Parrott

With my good friend Naomi Fleetwood-Pyle at Fontana NC - 2004

In Vegas with Delohn Collins, Jessie Venhuizen, Brian Staggs, Sarah and James Venhuizen and Mike Curtis

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