"Oldtime Flatfooting", Stephanie Coleman & Cleek Schrey with Nic Gareiss and Matthew Olwell

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"Oldtime Flatfooting", performed by Stephanie Coleman & Cleek Schrey (www.myspace.com/cleekschrey www.myspace.com/stephaniecolemanmusic) with Nic Gareiss & Matthew Olwell in concert at the Institute of Musical Traditions (www.imtfolk.org), Dance Exchange, Takoma Park, Maryland, USA on November 12, 2011.
Stephanie Coleman, Cleek Schrey and Nic Gareiss come together as a trio in the great tradition of Appalachian dance and double-fiddling. From Chicago, Steph fiddles with the all-female string band Uncle Earl. From Virginia, Cleek fiddles in the string band Bigfoot and both plays and flat-foots with Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble.
Originally from Michigan, Nic has danced with Bruce Molsky, Liz Carroll, and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.
Cleek and Stephanie began playing together after both moving to the unlikely old-time music hotbed of Brooklyn, NY. A reunion with Nic in Cork, Ireland spurred the trio on with the mission of exploring Appalachian fiddle and dance to its very edges. Their music eschews fusion and embraces repertoire, seeking to probe the corners, hollows and curvatures of traditional American music and dance in search of new possibilities of interpretation. IN this video they are accompied by legendary dancer Matthew Olwell.
Sound: Dave Richardson
Camera: Laura Christoplos, Ralph Lillie
Editing: Ralph Lillie
© 2011, Institute of Musical Traditions

[@aokateoleary]

I just love this smooth understated style of clogging. It blends with the music like another instrument, which it is.

[@violetnewcomb1195]

Countryneeds more of this !!So much fun .Ilove it !!,this is awesome fun video ,kick off your shoes .and throw em on thefloor!!

[@finbarmaguire5668]

how great is this,just love it ,reminds me of irish sean,noes dancing ,cheek it out .

[@davebrooks6848]

Yes Finbar you are right, early settles from Ireland took Sean nos to America and it morphed into flat foot and buck dance, dance with a fiddle and bango,fantastic

[@mimijohnson9359]

Mr. Olwell is fantastic-best flatfooter I have ever seen, and I come from the mountains of NC. Have watched this video numerous times.

[@Coaching-is3pz]

Yes, and each time I watch this it brings me more and more joy.

[@margotgorske6986]

AMEN!!

[@RFATarheel]

That was so Fantastic, I'm sitting here at my computer watching with tears in my eyes.

[@ProfileP246]

Great when something just hits you like that!

[@mikelong3702]

ok. still gotta love D.RayWhite. Boone County West Virginia. He gets down...even at old age...RIP D. Ray. Jesco was ok. Green Grass Cloggers of Appalachian State university has some talent too...check those out on you tube. Especially D.Ray White dancing and singing to the son Cindy! Awesome!

[@sandiesing8142]

Fabulous flatfooting!

[@virginiamooney4105]

they're just vibing. I love this.

[@Jigaboo123456]

BRILLIANT AND JOYFUL, in big capital letters!

[@Jigaboo123456]

PS. And Kudos to the fiddlers too!

[@conniemcmurry9589]

Awesome!!! So filled with life and JOY !!!

[@katiehendersonfiddle]

The tune is called Buffalo Girls.

[@CadillacL]

Now that's how it's done folks!

[@brucelevine6517]

Nice dancing !

[@strutt01]

There should be more emphasis on the sound of the dancing. It sounds awesome.

[@SuperEvoIX]

Wauu! Awesome cool. Thanks to you, greets from Switzerland. Great job.

[@benwitt1]

Great guys.....thanks

[@etiennettetremblay3440]

C'est vraiment super pour les musiciens et les danseurs de claquettes.

[@joedezarn3661]

brilliant all the way!

[@normagrimstad8869]

Love this

[@Mandolin1944]

Wow that was FAN-TAAAS-TICK!!! Great video!!!

[@barbara.hagofsky166]

They sure looked like they were having fun!

[@robertlemaster7525]

Takoma Park Maryland? Thats the LAST place I would expect to hear that music in the state.

[@CadillacL]

Love it!

[@wakingup5791]

Thomas sent me here!👍👍

[@TheDistar10]

WOW! Thanx!

[@spgokc78]

Very nice!!

[@egreendc]

and what a great fiddle duet! Is that tune called Brilliancy?

[@otryma]

+Edward Green The tune is called 'Buffalo Girls' (as opposed to the song, 'Buffalo Gals'). John Hatcher is the source, I believe.

[@bettyebell2835]

WOW !!

[@JohnEdwinentertainment]

Yeeah ! Wonderful !!

[@proserepair]

I think it is the tune sometimes used with "The Joviall Broome Man." The Baltimore Consort rocks the heck out of the tune (also with the text of "The Joviall Broome Man"), and they identify the tune as "Slow Men of London."

[@777teamoati]

awesome....would be so fun to learn....can do do some videos for us???

[@imtfolk]

+vivacristo rey Hi, thx for compliment - only work the DC area and mostly non-profits like IMT. Best R.

[@Mildredofscotland]

Love you guys, sooo cool! What kind of shoes do you wear for flatfooting/clogging, and where do you get them? I'd like to learn how! :)

[@SuperManning11]

I’d love to see the guy in the brown shirt doing some buck dancing. When they are flatfooting like this it’s hard for me to see the difference.

[@janedoe-hq9vn]

Delightful

[@coreysullivan5949]

jane doe bandana

[@proserepair]

Oops. Apparently the earlier name of the tune is "Jamaica" from Playford's "Dancing Master." Nice mandolin rendering on KZbin by mj10008.

[@PillCozbee]

How many years to get that good?

[@Spaceplant109]

That's some fine footin'

[@imtfolk]

Wish I knew the name of this song....

[@nothingbutcorn]

buffalo gals, Hatcher is the source.

[@areyouavinalaff]

This style of dancing was invented in 1829 when a man about to be hanged for horse thievery was observed, with a noose around his neck and hands tied behind his back, stomping on an ant nest situated underneath the tree limb from which he was to be hanged from. While waiting for his execution the ants attacked and he began a stomping, scraping the ground and skipping from foot to foot. Now the bunch of folks fixing to hang this man happened to be musicians and began to play a well known song from the time because it fit perfectly with the rhythm of the stomping, scraping, shuffling and skipping. Anyway, after they hanged him they all took turns on the ant nest trying to master those stomps, scrapes and skips. The horse thief of course was an indian fella from the flatfoot tribe and, well, flatfoot dancing was born.

[@rickihanes2532]

Bull shyt

[@glasgowbrian1469]

Very funny. Fake news just has to be believable, but this isn’t. Good try.

[@2326038]

Are you 'avin a laugh? Is he 'avin a laugh? *Good story. Thanks for sharing*.

[@mikelong3702]

that's horse crap. It's been around longer than that. It's a mix of Irish, old Celtics, and Appalachian Immigrants . Anglo-Saxon Mountain music. This was done when the colonies were barely here, before that with the Celts and Different styles in Northwest Europe.

[@johnwhite2454]

Are you 'avin a laugh? Is he 'avin a laugh? l

[@321minder]

That's proper flatfooting, needs some gravel and dust..

[@CatholicBeardReviews]

+321minder and some spoons a playin

[@JaimeBooher]

You can wear tap shoes :)

[@TheWrensHouse]

Sean nos dancing ....

[@bobclarke2705]

I think this is called tap dancing...like fred astaire???

[@garymelnyk9370]

Nope!

[@OzarkRose]

Flat footing is older than tap.

[@sazji]

What's the name of the tune?

[@margotgorske6986]

Clogging can't compare to this; either born with it or you ain't

[@slantsix6344]

Flatfooting is from the British Isles originally, the settlers from there brought it with them.

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[@stranraerwal]

They should have given the dancers a platform-half of their steps cannot be viewed by the audience there and on the monitor at home.

[@swoons631]

A whole bag of potatoes was awarded to his family . But a mule ate it, he later received a fine Cole of cabbage.. Anyone the McGuire family killed the o'shaughnessy family.. Over the best sausage!

[@Coaching-is3pz]

Interesting to compare with David Hoffman's video from 50 years ago, "Best Bluegrass Clog Dancing Video Ever Made." Here is where the two gentlemen are dancing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maSVm2ucbK1ljbsm43s.

[@3lackdog]

Seems like in that old clip they are just doing similar moves but don't really seem to be dancing WITH the music. These guys here also seem to be flailing their arms about quite a bit and have more moves.

[@0boardcertified0]

Could have done without that................but I'll not snuff your 1st amendment right even it if was classless.

[@conniemcmurry9589]

Oboard: What's a complete a d total snob you are..and filled with so much fear.