✦ Our Story ✦

Meet The Hunnies

The Honky Tonk Hunnies didn't start in a boardroom or a business plan. It started on a dance floor in 2023. Two women who love country music, vintage fashion, and the feeling of a good two-step found each other mid-song at Grand Ole Echo in Los Angeles. And the rest, as they say, is history.

What began as a friendship became a mission: to bring the joy, tradition, and community of country partner dancing to more Southern California dancefloors (and beyond!)

We believe country dancing belongs to everyone. Not just the boots-since-birth crowd. Not just the people who grew up with it. Everyone who's ever heard a song and felt the urge to move. That's why we teach. That's why we show up at bars, festivals, and honky tonks across the country. And that's why we're not stopping anytime soon.

Established 2024, Los Angeles, CA

Rhiannon aka "Partyhats"

Founder, Instructor

I've been finding my way back to the dance floor for most of my life.

It started with West Coast Swing in the '90s, turned into a full-blown love affair with country dancing in the 2000s, and I've been two-stepping my way across the country ever since. Nashville, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, Bozeman, Chicago, Phoenix, Las Vegas — if there's a honky tonk worth knowing, there's a good chance I've danced there.

What keeps me coming back is the tradition. Country partner dancing carries something rare in a world that moves fast: a genuine sense of history, community, and connection. A dance floor where strangers become partners, partners become friends, and for a few songs, everyone gets to be part of something joyful.

By day I work as a corporate consultant, leadership coach, and public speaker — and it turns out that teaching executives to lead and teaching beginners to two-step require exactly the same skills. Reading a room. Breaking the intimidating into the manageable. Building enough trust that people are willing to try something new. Making someone feel capable before they feel ready. I bring all of that to every class I teach.

There's nothing quite like watching someone's face light up when the steps finally click. That smile that says wait… I'm doing it — I live for that moment.

When I'm not on the dance floor, find me on roller skates, at a live music show, or hunting for the perfect vintage piece. I have a soft spot for beautiful old things, well-worn dance floors, and bands with a pedal steel. -see ya'll on the dance floor 😉 Rhiannon

Sugar

Founder, Instructor

Equal parts hostess and menace, I found my people on the dance floor — which, if you've ever two-stepped with me, probably tracks.

I was raised in a deeply musical family full of talent, but I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, so dance became my instrument. My roots grew in ballet and ballroom, but country dancing became home when I found myself seeking familiarity, community, and a place where connection came naturally — under the neon moon.

It turns out the dance floor and the event floor have more in common than you'd think. After more than a decade planning weddings and events, I've built a career on the same things I love about country dancing: creating the conditions for people to feel welcomed, at ease, and genuinely present in a room full of strangers. I know how to set a tone, read an energy, and make a moment feel like it was always meant to happen. I bring all of that to every class I teach.

My favorite part of teaching is making beginners feel like they've been two-stepping for years, gently encouraging every two-step of the way. I believe country dancing should feel like a deep breath: the kind that comes with courage, catharsis, or pride when finally nailing that sweet move you've been chasing. Because to me, this is about more than dancing. It's the brave old art of human connection — the courage to ask someone to dance, the thrill of a yes, the occasional humbling no, and if you're lucky, finding someone to shuffle across the floor with for years to come.

If I'm ever off the dance floor, I'm likely lost in a vintage shop, enjoying a patio hang with a good spirit and a crisp Banquet, or causing good chaos with Rhiannon. -xoxo, Sugar