Hoppin Possums: Steps from the Green Grass Cloggers

When the Green Grass Cloggers formed on a whim in 1971, they used what they knew and made up the rest. It was a creative process that led to the distinctive Green Grass style that combined Western square dance figures with precision footwork based on steps they learned from mentors and steps developed within the group. Along the way, those steps took on the names of the dancers who created them.
Within the first decade of the group's existence, Green Grass steps entered folk tradition. People taught and learned steps like the Eddie, the Earl, the Karen's Kick, the Walking Step, and more...without always knowing that they came from specific people with connections to the Green Grass Cloggers.
Hoppin' Possums: Steps from the Green Grass Cloggers ties the stories back to their sources--with narrative history chapters unfolding through interviews with the sources of the steps: the GGC Basic Step, Dudley, Eddie, Earl, Karen’s Kick, Jerry, Possum Hop, Hunt Mallett, Rabie Hemby, and more from mentors Willard Watson, Hansel Aldridge, and Robert Dotson.
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[@MaureenReed-sg3ox]

that was awesome! So we need to get together all the spin off groups from Green Grass and put together the whole legacy! (from Turkeys on the Run Cloggers - Md and DC area, approx. 1977-1986).

[@HoppinPossums]

Thanks so much for watching! We do have preliminary notes for a future project highlighting offshoots, so we'll keep you in mind and try to connect online.

[@howspecial5841]

RIP brother Mike Mosseley. You did what you loved and your dancing showed it. Show them how it's done up yonder bro. BC

[@StephLadder]

Very nice! Eliza and I were art majors at East Carolina in the late '60s -- we knew Dudley, Joe and others... I played/sang in a folk group. Those were the daze! Great 'flash back' video.

[@HoppinPossums]

Thanks so much for watching and sharing your story!