I was born and raised in Kentucky (40 miles from Lexington) and I can remember my mom and dad dancing like this. My uncles would play the banjo, fiddle and guitar at the local school and all the neighborhood folks would come and dance the "flat foot". Much simpler times.... Anyway, love this video -brings back a lot of wonderful memories.
When you watch and listen to these wonderful performers, just think what America has come to. It would be great to know that this way of life could be preserved in this decadent society.
You should get out more. It's still around. There are many festivals that celebrate this art. That is where to meet people to learn where to go for lessons, where are the clubs that meet regularly, to to play an instrument and what is needed from patrons and supporters if there is a real desire to preserve these art forms. Begin with the festivals like Shindig on the Green- Asheville NC, Appalachian Stringband Festival (aka Clifftop) - Clifftop, WV. You see whst you're focused on. The world is in rough shape but its not all bad. Adjust your focus 😉
Reading this March 2021, your pessimism appears to have been warranted the way basic decency has nose dived even further including the beautiful Constitution under threat. I pray enough people stand up and defend the real America.......not a communist version of it.......
@@samhunt9380 oh good grief. Do you want a segregated society where women are essentially brainwashed to be slaves of men. You are just a poorly educated tool of the rich who love exploiting your ignorance and appetites.
@@gottasay4766 What are you talking about??? Are you saying you want the traditional American way of life destroyed??? Oh and by the way, you have no idea the level of my education and true to form, when people have no argument, they resort to personal attacks, just like you are.
My heavens if folk can start a dispute about who started this wonderful form of let's just have a good time playing music an dancing....there's no hope for humanity....its pure joy ...love it and them and I'm a geordie gal north east England ....eeeee get your clogs on and dance man instead of arguments ♥
Wow! That was fun to watch! Made me want to get up and join them. Great dancing, great fun and that tall string bean of a man held his own with the ladies. He had some great moves and the ladies were sure great. Thank you for posting this.
You won't see much more of it unless something happens to change it. Dying out. ua-cam.com/video/cs2j8f7H2WY/v-deo.html How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? and where from? I'm just curious since you say you've never seen this type of dancing before. I'm Gen X from from Tennessee and grew up around this kind of thing.
Scandalous having dresses that short & showing their forearms ! ! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ! ! So much wholesome fun for young'uns. Keeps 'em outa trouble & off drugs. Maybe Mayor Emmanuel should introduce this in Chicago? Thanks for posting this. Great talent.
Yes yes yes! Your comment more relevant now than ever! Just started watching these recently, and of course more and more keep popping up, and I just wish SOMEONE would introduce this to the youth in the big cities. Might take a little while, but packaged right it most definitely would catch on. And good stuff would follow.
Have just ordered 2 lots of steel capped and heeled shoes for my sis and me and we are getting a mate to make two round individual boards for us to dance on. He plays banjo. This is SO INSPIRING and we start lessons in 2 weeks locally in England. YEEHAA. Jenny
OMG I am in love with the girl in the middle with curly long dark hair. She is a Goddess, a dream come true. I have seen this video 2/3 times daily since I don't know when. She is perfect.
@Bedonkohee McFee You being serious? Because I like the music? I said I liked the music, not you, you ignorant bastard. Now you go and fuck yourself, theres a good boy
Yesss, thanks for this video, I had ancestors and probably family members still in the Appalachians. I can feel the love of this music and dance in my blood.
beautiful thank you for posting this, my parents would take us to these festivals when we were young so that we would remember our heritage Ive been gone for so long I was so happy to run across this thank you again!!!
Scots- Irish (Scots moved by England to Ireland) migrated to America in the late 1600's early 1700's due to conflict between Protestant and Catholics in Ireland (still going on today). Moved thru Baltimore to Appalachians due to hostility of early Americans towards immigrants. They adapted well to mountains as it was not unlike Scotland. Became adept Indian fighters and lent support to Washington teaching them guerilla tactics - this helped turn tide of American Revolutionary war 1776
Love this music! Can't get enough of it, even though 'Big Donkey McThick' from Kilkenny told me I weren't welcome and he was coming over to dear old England to rough me up if I ever came back hahaha...Coming back every day to listen!
I am a decendant of the Scotch-irish, GERMAN JEW immigrants to Mount Mitchell NC. Clogging is an American dance form that began in the Appalachian Mountains. As they were settled in the mid 1700's by the Irish, Scottish, English and Dutch-Germans, the folk dances of each area met and began to combine, the beginning of clog dancing. Accompanied by rousing fiddle and bluegrass music,the word "Clog" comes from Gaelic and means "time". Clogging is a dance that is done in time with the music
@mgbronner Ireland, if I'm not mistaken. To begin with, the similarities between what you see in this video and traditional Irish dancing are quite stark. Actually, one might be hard-pressed to differentiate the two, if it wasn't for the music, which isn't that entirely different either.
Great. I love this . I could watch this all day , I wanted to get up and do it my self. except I have to bad knees. but sure thought about giving it a try.
The Lancashire mill gitrls we carried in our buses and coaches would often start an impromptu clog dance usually round the bemused driver (me) but and this is the but it was on cobbles or setts, so hence the local dialect question to a boy/girl "Are ye sparkin?" 400 girls with only a handful of overseers made a hot mixture but dangerous as the local lads still practised "clog purring" (fighting) on the moors and you don't want to go there! All about 50 years ago.
Having relatives/ancestors from Kentucky (but not the Appalachian region) this was new to me. I see the Scottish/Irish influence though. I hope this culture is preserved and passed on to many future generations; it is unique and precious.
gaelic irish music most definately played a major part in american folk tradition,cant comment on dancing,but I think galloway was the area most ulstermen belong to,i lived there for many yrs and scots is going strong,if e ken whit am takin aboot.
Great stuff girls! It is a pity the video picture quality is so poor. I guess you all have to get together and do it again! I look forward to to seeing the new version.:) Thanks for posting!
Saw Spank the Planks last week at Wimborne Folk Festival 2012, the line up has changed this video was taken, there are no guys in the group currently. in this video is a friend of mine Joy, she is no longer in the group sadly .
hetrodoxly,,,,, fair play,my mother in law is from lancashire,and she was always going on about clog dancinig when she was young,she is quite old now !!
Lots of comments from the Huns here. To them: this is Appalachian dance. Scots and Irish settled there. This is clearly Celtic influenced, not Anglo-Saxon, dance.
+sohosean Replace Hun by German please. The war is over. 70 years by now. Aaaaaaand; the Celts came from from where i live and mooved later to to Great Brittain to meet the Romans there again (Romans had been here as well ;-)). History can be funny!
+Hartmut Writh Entschuldingen Sie mich, bitte. My use of "Huns" did not refer to the Germans, a people whom greatly I admire and whose language I studied. "Huns" is a term used by Irish nationalists to refer to the English, whose royalty is German (Battenbergs, not the false name of "Windsor" that they assume.) and whose roots go back to Saxony. I believe it came about from copying the British use of the term 'Hun" to refer to the Germans in WK1. The Irish borrowed it, to remind the British they treat Ireland like medieval invaders. I used it here to refer to some troll who was insisting that this type of dancing is 100% English, without influence from Scotland or Ireland. This imperialist attitude is typical of British "Hunish" behavior. Germany has always been a friend of Ireland and we appreciate that, meiner Freund.
man, get over your dislike of the English. We are a mongrel race. Most people have DNA roots from all over. I am English but with 25% Irish blood plus French ancestry, plus,plus. Most of us are like this. Love and peace.
So what does your DNA and ancestry have to do with the source and origin of this dance? Nothing! So why bring it up. No one is interested. Some Englishman here was insisting this dance had English roots, when that is clearly not the case. Instead of lecturing, do some research on the dance form. I am for historical accuracy and won't allow cultural hegemony by some super-nationalist English to alter that.
The royal family's name is Saxe-Coburg-Gotha not Battenberg later changed to Mountbatten by Lord Mountbatten's family. Do try and get your facts right Timmy and have a bath you stink. The dancers on this video are a pleasure to watch unlike the heifers who river dance in pit boots,typical dhim hates the crown but loves the half crown.
I LOVE that they're all wearing different traditional quilt square designs on the bodice of their dresses--another art that needs to be kept alive.
❤all those lovely ladies dancing together ❤
I wish I could dance like that
I was born and raised in Kentucky (40 miles from Lexington) and I can remember my mom and dad dancing like this. My uncles would play the banjo, fiddle and guitar at the local school and all the neighborhood folks would come and dance the "flat foot". Much simpler times.... Anyway, love this video -brings back a lot of wonderful memories.
perhaps next time they could get a cam with a FOCUS feature?
MAGA
@@jcmarinut I would tell her, but she died four years ago.
Whow, i would like to dance like this gorgeous people.
When you watch and listen to these wonderful performers, just think what America has come to. It would be great to know that this way of life could be preserved in this decadent society.
You should get out more. It's still around. There are many festivals that celebrate this art. That is where to meet people to learn where to go for lessons, where are the clubs that meet regularly, to to play an instrument and what is needed from patrons and supporters if there is a real desire to preserve these art forms. Begin with the festivals like Shindig on the Green- Asheville NC, Appalachian Stringband Festival (aka Clifftop) - Clifftop, WV. You see whst you're focused on. The world is in rough shape but its not all bad. Adjust your focus 😉
If you form your opinions by the negativity you hear in the news, that's all you will see. There is plenty of good in this country, if you only look.
Reading this March 2021, your pessimism appears to have been warranted the way basic decency has nose dived even further including the beautiful Constitution under threat. I pray enough people stand up and defend the real America.......not a communist version of it.......
@@samhunt9380 oh good grief. Do you want a segregated society where women are essentially brainwashed to be slaves of men. You are just a poorly educated tool of the rich who love exploiting your ignorance and appetites.
@@gottasay4766 What are you talking about??? Are you saying you want the traditional American way of life destroyed??? Oh and by the way, you have no idea the level of my education and true to form, when people have no argument, they resort to personal attacks, just like you are.
I think they're amazing takes you back to a time when people made they're own amusement and had so much fun doing it!
What a beautiful performance..sitting in India and watching a perfect synchronisation Irish tap dance.
thats awesome im sitting here in ireland havin a coffee and tuned into this ,,,brilliant
I will be visiting your beautiful country in a couple of months.
Drag racing
You can see why we love the Irish so much - you’re in our blood 🤗
You can tell the ones that have been trained in traditional Irish dance. Their arms are at their sides throughout.
That chap in the group is a great dancer.
Brava! Brava!! What elegant footwork and joyful faces. It was such a pleasure to watch, thank you!!
My heavens if folk can start a dispute about who started this wonderful form of let's just have a good time playing music an dancing....there's no hope for humanity....its pure joy ...love it and them and I'm a geordie gal north east England ....eeeee get your clogs on and dance man instead of arguments ♥
I know this may be a little late Mam. But may I have this dance?
Jeffrey Harrison why of course sir 😊never to late so im always being reminded
Eileen Davison I totally concur Eileen. John from Belford. howay the lads and lasses.
Wow! That was fun to watch! Made me want to get up and join them. Great dancing, great fun and that tall string bean of a man held his own with the ladies. He had some great moves and the ladies were sure great. Thank you for posting this.
Stamp the Ant 🐜 Boogie?
Joy to watch these at Chippenham folk festival thanks for reminding me of those fantastic performances and best wishes to the troupe.
This is probably a mix of Irish , Scottish, Northumbrian and African dancing styles and music .
It’s wonderful and beautiful to watch .
@ Daniel Cronin
“ and. German
2020, I have never seen this type of dance before, amazing.
You won't see much more of it unless something happens to change it. Dying out. ua-cam.com/video/cs2j8f7H2WY/v-deo.html How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? and where from? I'm just curious since you say you've never seen this type of dancing before. I'm Gen X from from Tennessee and grew up around this kind of thing.
been watching this for a long time, still cant sit still while its on
Oh how i envy the brilliant foorwork.
I love this takes me back home to Kentucky where I was raised and my mother. My mother raised in the Appalachian mountains.
Clog "dancing" was also used to beat down clay floors in the Edwardian times and before.
Scandalous having dresses that short & showing their forearms ! ! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ! ! So much wholesome fun for young'uns. Keeps 'em outa trouble & off drugs. Maybe Mayor Emmanuel should introduce this in Chicago? Thanks for posting this. Great talent.
Yes yes yes! Your comment more relevant now than ever! Just started watching these recently, and of course more and more keep popping up, and I just wish SOMEONE would introduce this to the youth in the big cities. Might take a little while, but packaged right it most definitely would catch on. And good stuff would follow.
What a combo -- the dance and the music !
Its similar to Irish dancing. Its wonderful to see these old historic dances preserved. Our Maypole dances has all but vanished in England..
This was filmed in the south of England.
OMG I'm still in love !
Authentic "River Dance"! Love it.
Have just ordered 2 lots of steel capped and heeled shoes for my sis and me and we are getting a mate to make two round individual boards for us to dance on. He plays banjo. This is SO INSPIRING and we start lessons in 2 weeks locally in England. YEEHAA. Jenny
Infectious rhythm - great stuff.
OMG I am in love with the girl in the middle with curly long dark hair. She is a Goddess, a dream come true. I have seen this video 2/3 times daily since I don't know when. She is perfect.
Ignacio Rosas She is a man.
Jajajajaja. she is a tasty candy.
Her name is Sandy. She was the leader of the group. She is a lovely lady.
How can 64 people not like this? What is there not to like? It
s fantastic!!!
@Bedonkohee McFee You being serious? Because I like the music? I said I liked the music, not you, you ignorant bastard. Now you go and fuck yourself, theres a good boy
@Bedonkohee McFee What a knob...
@Bedonkohee McFee have a potato Paddy, you’re not you when you’re hungry
Great music and dancing there! Brilliant video!
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing this! I've got happy feet now!
Understated, and sweet. Very nice. I have seen some in my time that were positively mesmerizing, and a true joy to watch.
I DO love this music!!!! No matter where it came from it's American southern now,LOL.
Yesss, thanks for this video, I had ancestors and probably family members still in the Appalachians. I can feel the love of this music and dance in my blood.
This is such a beautiful dance! Really loved it!
I loved it!..I got a cd of Broken String my sister send some years ago when she was in France,im in Argentina..Cheers to the band and dancers
Great! Love it!
beautiful thank you for posting this, my parents would take us to these festivals when we were young so that we would remember our heritage Ive been gone for so long I was so happy to run across this thank you again!!!
Scots- Irish (Scots moved by England to Ireland) migrated to America in the late 1600's early 1700's due to conflict between Protestant and Catholics in Ireland (still going on today). Moved thru Baltimore to Appalachians due to hostility of early Americans towards immigrants. They adapted well to mountains as it was not unlike Scotland. Became adept Indian fighters and lent support to Washington teaching them guerilla tactics - this helped turn tide of American Revolutionary war 1776
Love this music! Can't get enough of it, even though 'Big Donkey McThick' from Kilkenny told me I weren't welcome and he was coming over to dear old England to rough me up if I ever came back hahaha...Coming back every day to listen!
Clogging primarily developed from Irish step dancing called Sean-nós dance
love those dresses
500th up vote for quality dancing.
Love this wish I could still do it.
Yes you can! Just do it!!
Wonderful plank/ clogging - STOMPING........Ladies & Gent.....musicians a 10
so Fun.. really like their cute modest
dresses also and ofcorse their fiddler and dancing too
We need to bring more of our ancestral clothing style back into modern day fashions ❤️🙏
I am a decendant of the Scotch-irish, GERMAN JEW immigrants to Mount Mitchell NC. Clogging is an American dance form that began in the Appalachian Mountains. As they were settled in the mid 1700's by the Irish, Scottish, English and Dutch-Germans, the folk dances of each area met and began to combine, the beginning of clog dancing. Accompanied by rousing fiddle and bluegrass music,the word "Clog" comes from Gaelic and means "time". Clogging is a dance that is done in time with the music
@mgbronner Ireland, if I'm not mistaken. To begin with, the similarities between what you see in this video and traditional Irish dancing are quite stark. Actually, one might be hard-pressed to differentiate the two, if it wasn't for the music, which isn't that entirely different either.
I enjoyed this, thanks for posting it.
Thank you made my day wish i could do that
Great. I love this . I could watch this all day , I wanted to get up and do it my self. except I have to bad knees. but sure thought about giving it a try.
Hats off to Y'Awll
Awesome!
This is marvelous!
that is very very beautiful
Put a hat and a mustache on the guy and he could pass for Uncle Jed on the Beverly Hilbilies
adorei. maravilhoso. Execelente oportunidade pra quando eu for na inglaterra aproveitar para curtir danças e musicas tradicionais. um abraço a todos
Fantastic 👍❤️👏👏👏
Well done girls and boy love it
This dance troop are regular visitors to the Wimborne Folk Festival, in Dorset. And there are usually large crowds watching them.
Wonderful!!!
So close to clog dance of Scotland & Northern England. That's where the people came from
just to put things straight richard , enjoy ua-cam.com/video/mmkaWZ9ieGU/v-deo.html
Video posted by my dear late friend Dick Irish. Seen here playing acoustic bass guitar. Filmed by his wife Joy.
Mama's little baby loves shortenin' bread ! ☺️
Thank you . lovely
Awesome video and clogging grett ladies thanks for sharing thumbs up :-) :-) :-) :-)
The Lancashire mill gitrls we carried in our buses and coaches would often start an impromptu clog dance usually round the bemused driver (me) but and this is the but it was on cobbles or setts, so hence the local dialect question to a boy/girl "Are ye sparkin?" 400 girls with only a handful of overseers made a hot mixture but dangerous as the local lads still practised "clog purring" (fighting) on the moors and you don't want to go there! All about 50 years ago.
game,set and match,hetrodoxly has left the building,thank you ,and goodnight xxx
The Scots brought their music, dancing and whiskey.
The Scots brought WHISKY, music and dancing. The Irish brought Whiskey (and terrible accents)😊
Very good
2:10 when the man dances 👏🏻
This really looks like fun.
Nice dancing the bloke moves very well.
Having relatives/ancestors from Kentucky (but not the Appalachian region) this was new to me. I see the Scottish/Irish influence though. I hope this culture is preserved and passed on to many future generations; it is unique and precious.
Hmm, I see similarities myself--esp. to the Irish hard shoe step dancing. But anyway, I also have English ancestors, so it's all good.
hetrodoxly English? I'm guessing you've never seen RiverDance? Some of the moves are tit-for-tat identical.
hetrodoxly Your saying so means nothing. Absolutely nothing. There's nothing more English than claiming credit for things others have accomplished.
hetrodoxly We ignore trolls and Huns.
Ladies, ladies! Let's not fight; BOTH your purses are pretty! ;-)
Please find me a girl from the Apalachean ! I love these people!
Oh baby baby, it's a wild wild world. And the cat is back, with a smile. --- From Cat Stevens' Wild World.
DECENTLY DRESSED and Having FUN
at last,so the IRISH did not invent EVERYTHING !!!only in dreams
gaelic irish music most definately played a major part in american folk tradition,cant comment on dancing,but I think galloway was the area most ulstermen belong to,i lived there for many yrs and scots is going strong,if e ken whit am takin aboot.
Great stuff girls! It is a pity the video picture quality is so poor. I guess you all have to get together and do it again! I look forward to to seeing the new version.:) Thanks for posting!
Mighty damn good
lovely dancing on hythe sea front
🚨 Mammy's little babys loves short'nin bread!
We do this in California too!
brilliant
Cool stuff!!!
reminds me when I was pissed at a dance and couldn't find the toilet
awsome
id love to see more dancing with the male..he is good and skinny !!
Saw Spank the Planks last week at Wimborne Folk Festival 2012, the line up has changed this video was taken, there are no guys in the group currently. in this video is a friend of mine Joy, she is no longer in the group sadly .
Wish I had learned clogging and flat footing when I was young. Too old and arthritic now.
Yeah, me too.
The50Fprdman I know how you feel. I did tap for 3-4 years and I miss it. Too dam old now but I love watching these folks.
They are pretty gingham dresses Chas.
hetrodoxly,,,,, fair play,my mother in law is from lancashire,and she was always going on about clog dancinig when she was young,she is quite old now !!
I enjoy seeing a lady in a dress.
This should be in black and white :).
Excellent! I think I just met my next six or seven wives.
lol, I was thinking the very same thing.:)
That hearty dancing will make a man want to jump up and slap his papa.
Lots of comments from the Huns here. To them: this is Appalachian dance. Scots and Irish settled there. This is clearly Celtic influenced, not Anglo-Saxon, dance.
+sohosean
Replace Hun by German please. The war is over. 70 years by now. Aaaaaaand; the Celts came from from where i live and mooved later to to Great Brittain to meet the Romans there again (Romans had been here as well ;-)). History can be funny!
+Hartmut Writh Entschuldingen Sie mich, bitte.
My use of "Huns" did not refer to the Germans, a people whom greatly I admire and whose language I studied. "Huns" is a term used by Irish nationalists to refer to the English, whose royalty is German (Battenbergs, not the false name of "Windsor" that they assume.) and whose roots go back to Saxony.
I believe it came about from copying the British use of the term 'Hun" to refer to the Germans in WK1. The Irish borrowed it, to remind the British they treat Ireland like medieval invaders.
I used it here to refer to some troll who was insisting that this type of dancing is 100% English, without influence from Scotland or Ireland. This imperialist attitude is typical of British "Hunish" behavior. Germany has always been a friend of Ireland and we appreciate that, meiner Freund.
man, get over your dislike of the English. We are a mongrel race. Most people have DNA roots from all over. I am English but with 25% Irish blood plus French ancestry, plus,plus. Most of us are like this. Love and peace.
So what does your DNA and ancestry have to do with the source and origin of this dance?
Nothing! So why bring it up. No one is interested.
Some Englishman here was insisting this dance had English roots, when that is clearly not the case. Instead of lecturing, do some research on the dance form.
I am for historical accuracy and won't allow cultural hegemony by some super-nationalist English to alter that.
The royal family's name is Saxe-Coburg-Gotha not Battenberg later changed to Mountbatten by Lord Mountbatten's family. Do try and get your facts right Timmy and have a bath you stink. The dancers on this video are a pleasure to watch unlike the heifers who river dance in pit boots,typical dhim hates the crown but loves the half crown.
Even though I don't look it,I may be part Irish cause I enjoyed this way too much.My foot starts tapping automatically. :)