Spank the Planks Appalachian Dance Team

Spank the Planks Appalachian Team & the Broken String Band - Hythe Waterside Arts Festival Hampshire - 12th July 2003

[@rbsadler]

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.

[@surojitbhattacharjee296]

What a beautiful performance..sitting in India and watching a perfect synchronisation Irish tap dance.

[@philsooty5421]

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!

[@bobbymcguyer]

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.

[@stalstonestacy4316]

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 😉

[@lizardas]

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.

[@samhunt9380]

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.......

[@gottasay4766]

@@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.

[@samhunt8438]

@@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.

[@Gwenhamara]

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.

[@jcmarinut]

perhaps next time they could get a cam with a FOCUS feature?

[@ianosborne188]

MAGA

[@bigtone1348]

@@jcmarinut I would tell her, but she died four years ago.

[@markwhelan5623]

thats awesome im sitting here in ireland havin a coffee and tuned into this ,,,brilliant

[@JulianA601]

I will be visiting your beautiful country in a couple of months.

[@lailapitocco2666]

Drag racing

[@bethknight4436]

You can see why we love the Irish so much - you’re in our blood 🤗

[@Dannydantimpat]

This is probably a mix of Irish , Scottish, Northumbrian and African dancing styles and music . It’s wonderful and beautiful to watch .

[@Dannydantimpat]

@ Daniel Cronin “ and. German

[@GeneRogers-di6cl]

❤all those lovely ladies dancing together ❤

[@edejan]

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.

[@andrewkerr3836]

Stamp the Ant 🐜 Boogie?

[@elizabethwalker7864]

2020, I have never seen this type of dance before, amazing.

[@peacefulsleep220]

You won't see much more of it unless something happens to change it. Dying out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/maSVm2ucbK1ljbs 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.

[@beamer2845]

I wish I could dance like that

[@mjremy2605]

Brava! Brava!! What elegant footwork and joyful faces. It was such a pleasure to watch, thank you!!

[@nigelbrown5670]

been watching this for a long time, still cant sit still while its on

[@rowley1950]

How can 64 people not like this? What is there not to like? It s fantastic!!!

[@rowley1950]

@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

[@rowley1950]

@Bedonkohee McFee What a knob...

[@GloryToChrist97]

@Bedonkohee McFee have a potato Paddy, you’re not you when you’re hungry

[@lauraprindle9659]

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.

[@JDibden]

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

[@julianlawson4206]

Joy to watch these at Chippenham folk festival thanks for reminding me of those fantastic performances and best wishes to the troupe.

[@Zebra902]

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing this! I've got happy feet now!

[@ukekeysandbees]

Great music and dancing there! Brilliant video!

[@InayaUrbanec]

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!!!

[@ignaciorosas52]

OMG I'm still in love !

[@gildedmarchpane]

That chap in the group is a great dancer.

[@JunkTiger-js3jh]

Wonderful Thank You! Amazing talent🎉

[@johnpenny5638]

Infectious rhythm - great stuff.

[@ernstbecker1]

What a combo -- the dance and the music !

[@TingooKids]

This is such a beautiful dance! Really loved it!

[@kerrybarnett3793]

I love this takes me back home to Kentucky where I was raised and my mother. My mother raised in the Appalachian mountains.

[@Trixie287]

Whow, i would like to dance like this gorgeous people.

[@CarlosCarranza]

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

[@ScunneredMan]

Oh how i envy the brilliant foorwork.

[@StevieB1362]

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.

[@imonthewinningside8281]

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.

[@eileendavison8033]

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 ♥

[@jeffreyharrison6896]

I know this may be a little late Mam. But may I have this dance?

[@eileendavison8033]

Jeffrey Harrison why of course sir 😊never to late so im always being reminded

[@johnmckenzie9944]

Eileen Davison I totally concur Eileen. John from Belford. howay the lads and lasses.

[@MizARAZI]

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

[@davidnajor2222]

Understated, and sweet. Very nice. I have seen some in my time that were positively mesmerizing, and a true joy to watch.

[@200mphz06]

500th up vote for quality dancing.

[@WVsilverzuk]

I enjoyed this, thanks for posting it.

[@jimtownsend7899]

You can tell the ones that have been trained in traditional Irish dance. Their arms are at their sides throughout.

[@ignaciorosas52]

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.

[@vermilliongecko]

Ignacio Rosas She is a man.

[@ignaciorosas52]

Jajajajaja. she is a tasty candy.

[@bigtone1348]

Her name is Sandy. She was the leader of the group. She is a lovely lady.

[@anniemoonmaid]

Its similar to Irish dancing. Its wonderful to see these old historic dances preserved. Our Maypole dances has all but vanished in England..

[@bigtone1348]

This was filmed in the south of England.

[@rowley1950]

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!

[@johnsmith-bx4rn]

Clogging primarily developed from Irish step dancing called Sean-nós dance

[@JunkTiger-js3jh]

Amazing ❤

[@JunkTiger-js3jh]

Wonderful Thank You!!🎉

[@peterfairhurst6725]

Thank you made my day wish i could do that

[@rbsadler]

Great! Love it!

[@bilbonify]

Love this wish I could still do it.

[@mjremy2605]

Yes you can! Just do it!!

[@xw7239]

We need to bring more of our ancestral clothing style back into modern day fashions ❤️🙏

[@susie360]

Wonderful!!!

[@chiledoug]

love those dresses

[@godgavemeafiddle]

so Fun.. really like their cute modest dresses also and ofcorse their fiddler and dancing too

[@marie41837]

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.

[@themermaidstale5008]

This is marvelous!

[@noelconroy3647]

Awesome video and clogging grett ladies thanks for sharing thumbs up :-) :-) :-) :-)

[@gildedmarchpane]

Clog "dancing" was also used to beat down clay floors in the Edwardian times and before.

[@heatmanable]

that is very very beautiful

[@waltonsmountain]

game,set and match,hetrodoxly has left the building,thank you ,and goodnight xxx

[@johnnybx3254]

Fantastic 👍❤️👏👏👏

[@mediamanny53]

Wonderful plank/ clogging - STOMPING........Ladies & Gent.....musicians a 10

[@gaylerobertson7971]

Awesome!

[@OttoJuhl]

I DO love this music!!!! No matter where it came from it's American southern now,LOL.

[@mrcrago62]

This dance troop are regular visitors to the Wimborne Folk Festival, in Dorset. And there are usually large crowds watching them.

[@clarkewi]

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

[@raymonddaubney3612]

This really looks like fun.

[@peterfairhurst6725]

Well done girls and boy love it

[@nachtebuch]

@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.

[@claudioantonangelo6967]

adorei. maravilhoso. Execelente oportunidade pra quando eu for na inglaterra aproveitar para curtir danças e musicas tradicionais. um abraço a todos

[@sandym3424]

Thank you . lovely

[@guccideltaco]

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.

[@guccideltaco]

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.

[@sohosean]

hetrodoxly English? I'm guessing you've never seen RiverDance? Some of the moves are tit-for-tat identical.

[@sohosean]

hetrodoxly Your saying so means nothing. Absolutely nothing. There's nothing more English than claiming credit for things others have accomplished.

[@sohosean]

hetrodoxly We ignore trolls and Huns.

[@guccideltaco]

Ladies, ladies! Let's not fight; BOTH your purses are pretty! ;-)

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

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!

[@unclebazwold]

Nice dancing the bloke moves very well.

[@MrsEvelynBreebles]

Hats off to Y'Awll

[@marykline8596]

2:10 when the man dances 👏🏻

[@balerick48]

Cool stuff!!!

[@manospetridis1935]

Put a hat and a mustache on the guy and he could pass for Uncle Jed on the Beverly Hilbilies

[@sueme1954]

Mama's little baby loves shortenin' bread ! ☺️

[@captarne1]

Very good

[@bofts]

Mighty damn good

[@MrBlackbamboo]

brilliant

[@g3wjm]

lovely dancing on hythe sea front

[@friendlyflow]

awsome

[@cuddlybear47]

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 .

[@debrap947]

Authentic "River Dance"! Love it.

[@TheSteamtramman]

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.

[@kevinl6231]

We do this in California too!

[@waltonsmountain]

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 !!

[@BillOtinger]

DECENTLY DRESSED and Having FUN

[@jiesong7069]

Oh baby baby, it's a wild wild world. And the cat is back, with a smile. --- From Cat Stevens' Wild World.

[@bigtone1348]

Video posted by my dear late friend Dick Irish. Seen here playing acoustic bass guitar. Filmed by his wife Joy.

[@finnmccool684]

Excellent! I think I just met my next six or seven wives.

[@raymonddaubney3612]

lol, I was thinking the very same thing.:)

[@thushansylva]

Please find me a girl from the Apalachean ! I love these people!

[@MsSharon28]

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.

[@christyowens4185]

Good dancing. I would like to see white clogging shoes with those dresses too.

[@jawbaw6471]

That hearty dancing will make a man want to jump up and slap his papa.

[@richardcooper2349]

So close to clog dance of Scotland & Northern England. That's where the people came from

[@johnsmith-bx4rn]

just to put things straight richard , enjoy kzbin.info/www/bejne/o57OkoqQbs6Yfbc

[@danieldavis6595]

nice

[@edwardpate6128]

I think I just saw these folks in a Geico commercial! LOL

[@chrisarcari4919]

reminds me when I was pissed at a dance and couldn't find the toilet

[@clarkewi]

The Scots brought their music, dancing and whiskey.

[@yourweebrother]

The Scots brought WHISKY, music and dancing. The Irish brought Whiskey (and terrible accents)😊

[@victoriamiller3840]

They are pretty gingham dresses Chas.

[@thegringobandito6346]

🚨 Mammy's little babys loves short'nin bread!

[@tejaml]

id love to see more dancing with the male..he is good and skinny !!