FREESTYLE BUCKDANCE, Tennessee Valley Fiddlers Convention, Athens Alabama - Chris Gray RIP 

I agree....I’m Mexican & I love this. 🇺🇸🇲🇽

He’s light on his feet!

Thought he’s was gonna kill the table

Yup, he was my favorite!

AAAMEN! to the sentiment... was just on a channel that had a whole bunch of dancing from all over the world, including some tots had a ball whatchin,' 'em all!

Don’t talk shite

@@jerrywallop5647 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_ABeKsMEHdc.html. Really ?

Big time

I have red hair maybe that's why I can dance like that easily

cumberland and wales were origin of clogging ..combined with step from Ulster and scotland gave us buck dancing

I can't 4wheel in the mountains without bluegrass or some fiddle goin

What about that dang mouth organ?!?!?! He just kep a blowin'!!! I would have passed out after 10 or 15 seconds at that pase. Love it!!! Yeeeehawwwww!!!

Let’s not forget about that harp player…

Ironwind1972 🤣🤣🤣 it’s funny because they’re fat

@Ironwood1827. That is acully true

😂😂👌👏

Ill admit, I was holding my breath for a few of those folks...them legs struggled harder than the soldiers in the winter of 1863

That's a "T.F.P.," as my Dad would say. {A tough "friendly" platform.}

Amen once we throw away our newspapers and turn off the television/facebook/instagram we can get back to loving the sheer diversity and joy of America!!!!! :)

I love this! Thank you.

Thank you for your insight. It has been so hard lately for me to appreciate this country. The USA has it's strength in it's diversity.

Y'alls comments jerked tears and melted my heart. I work construction and hunt and fish type of guy and a shed real tears over the comments about this beautiful country. I've said some negative things about it in the recent past and this brought back the love it makes me feel ashamed for down talking my country.

@@joshkitchens9884I think it's because you love your country that you may say "negative things" now and then, because you want things to be better and there's nothing wrong with that. I suppose it's a universal thing, we all do that (I'm not even from the US, I ran into this video by chance)

kelly McClain.....irish dance only started in the late 1800s after two irishmen got invited to several scots ceilidth nights in london in 1894. most likely adopted from scottish stepdance. scottish stepdance mostly went to canada alang with the original scottish fiddle reel music. they still speak scottish galic in some parts of cape breton yet. the scots introduced the fiddle to ireland where literally 100s of scottish fiddle reel tunes went. irish music only started in the late 50s when the clancies (who actually started out as actors took to singing)adopted the lively/fun nonsense scottish sangs. many famous irish sangs are actually scottish or english. many famous irish fiddle tunes are actually scottish. i would say tho, that this is from welsh or english clog dance.

@@brucecollins4729 I’m Scots/Cherokee grandfather was from Humbolt Tennessee in the hills. I agree completely. Irish are still very strong with teaching I was more referring to Celts as a whole. Thanks for the info! I love learning about origins and TRUE history.

@@kelleymcclain7380 you can type in....history ireland reinventing the boundaries of irish dance.....then...music essays traditional irish ireland.....the fiddle and reel music (alang with 100s of scottish fiddle reels)only reached ireland in the mid 1700s. you will find these many of these fiddle tunes on you tube under an "irish" title.

@@brucecollins4729 Thanks Bruce!

100% those were my thoughts exactly.

Steve come on over to Kentucky or Tennessee if you like good music. Your welcomed here.

Thanks Carl. I think it's the fact that I've been playing the violin since the 3rd grade that makes me appreciate such creative music. JAM ON!

@@skiMTB Keep on playing, nothing better than good music 🎶

@@1Whitetail Taking people from California are ya? Tennessee got my son - so he moved from California to Tennessee. At least there is water in Tennessee.

Dear, if you’ve been here that long, you’re an American! 🇺🇸

He was the best!!

Yeah, how did the harp player not pass out?

First guy little miss with electric blue sweatsuit and plaid shirt and glasses Kilt it!!

Yeah I liked the first guy too!

I did like the first guy best!

Miss Moonshine Buckdancing "Down the Road Somewhere" - Bill and the Belles - Bear on the Square 2019 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VFYetUJhm9c.html

@@Dablkwid0w2008 Yes! Agreed!

But his gut is holding him back

@@jerrywallop5647 I wouldn't say holding him back as much as possibly would shorten his performances.

@@tomlawhon6515 they’re all pretty shit to be fair…..best bit was the guy blocking the shot.

I always wonder how these dances originated

He's awesome. Period.

No you don’t lol

Yo I was sittin up here imagining someone overlaying their dance moves to salsa meringue music and also b-boy music Lol. This looks a lot similar to top-rocking.

I didn’t realize Larry David could play so well! 😂

may he rest in peace

@@MissMoonshineDance oh so sorry

Dancing hard out in heaven! Sorry for you loss, this gentleman seemed like a gem. Arohanui from Aotearoa New Zealand.

No it is culturally Scots-Irish.

@@nancyjanzen5676 Much of Appalachian culture IS Scots-Irish.

@@nancyjanzen5676 Precisely....

Nancy Janzen which we turned into something very southern American.

It's not "celtic", whatever you think that means. These step dances developed over the last few hundred years in Britain and Ireland, they don't have anything to do with the "celts." The largest numbers (and earliest) immigrants to the Appalachians were English. They took their music song and dances with them, including step dancing. I know that many people are pretty ignorant about English traditions, but they made a massive contribution to Appalachian culture. Don't make the mistake or rewriting history through ignorance.

@@andrewwigglesworth3030 Celtic people today are the current Scottish, Welsh, Irish as well as their descendants in the Americas (which includes Alabama). England was almost entirely dominated by Celts until Romans and Germanic tribes decided to make the Island home. Ancient Celts were once widespread all over Europe. Many of those "English People" you mentioned were actually Ulster and Highland Scots. A little basic research is your friend. It would have saved you from looking like, as the English would say, a "right git". No one is "rewriting history" and you are not nearly as smart as you think you are. It's funny how you mentioned my "ignorance" in a comment that literally showcases your own.

​@@andrewwigglesworth3030 Scottish people aren't English you ignorant hippie. Go sit in the corner.

​@@andrewwigglesworth3030 Scotsmen (most of the people who settled the Appalachians and a good part of the South ) are not English, and Celts (both Brythonic and Gaelic) were living in what is now England long before various tribes of proto-krauts (including the Angles which gave England its name) began settling there. What were you saying about ignorance? 😆

We are alot alike. Regardless of how much the rich, corrupt, newz, politicians, bought out tv stars and corporations try to divide us. We the ppl. Of the world. We have love.

Mexico 🇲🇽 always has amazing music...and food!

Yes, very similar, Huapango and zapateado some polka hace similar moves. A lot of the mexican northern states heritage comes from Europe.

October 4 through 7th this year. 2023... see you there!

lots o that on mi channel

he is championship calibur dancing has many awards

YES

Mr. Thomas Maupin. Probably the best flat footer in the world. Give him a square foot of plywood and music and he can dance all day.

He really was good 😊😊

Seriously I have a crush

Like my brother in-law David Hardwick from Tennessee would say ,IAM fixing too.

William Devlin - that’s exactly how I feel! I wish I grew up in TN!

Yes

I've been trying to learn how to dance like this and no joke, if you ain't from TN (I'm from Louisiana) then it might be in you to learn. Lol.

Indeed.

sadly that big guy is dead now. Be safe, London

I also loved watching Miss Moonshine dance! She’s my favorite!

You nailed it. The original settlers were Scots who settled Northern Ireland.

@@reginaweiner3817 yes 3rd of May was our 100th birthday,, from an ulster Scots,, Belfast,, northern Ireland

Fantastic Ulster Scots influence, great to watch and proud to be an Ulster Scot.

@@reginaweiner3817 Yes... and my family were some of them! Proud to be a Scots-Irish Southerner. 🍀

Makes me puke …..you have no heritage & hardly any existence……plastic people

Me too .me too. 😥

My Uncle Butch use to dance the old cotton gin jig. He'd bring a tear to my eye. He was good at it. He learned from great grand dad.

Aneokame yeah it is interesting.. i mean it made me think about dance period.. and just the movement of the human body.. etc idont know dont want to get all profound but this was cool/interesting

That's one of the great things about folk dancing, it includes all ages.

@@helenhighwater5313 You ain't justa woofin'. That was a ton of fun. No stars, just people doing a couple of moves.

So, I'm surprised that there wasn't any foot slapping. Not done in that part of the country?

@@Jeff-jg7jh when you see foot slapping that's something German men do when showing off their fancy work, if you ever watch a German festival with dance the guys will compete with fancy dancing that includes a lot of foot slapping and it looks a lot like fancy hackeysack moves, but with flatfooting and clogging I don't know that I've ever seen foot slapping.

Hello 👋 Leigh. How are you doing ? Hope are you fine. I'm Scott Clifford and am from Denver Colorado, where are you from. You seem like a real country girl

Power of the likker.

Girl in the blue is doing the sugar foot hop

Hello 👋 Eliza. How are you doing ? Hope are you fine. I'm Scott Clifford and am from Denver Colorado, where are you from. You seem like a real country girl

Amen!

Yes!

@DMHQ-Administration Hello!! Have RU-vid friends in Canada, Alberta and BC! Can't wait to visit one day!! Hugs from N.C.!!🤗

@@charlene5461 Swing by Hull, Québec when you have a chance. 🤔😀😁👍🏻 How's North Carolina doing? 🥰🤗

Darn cute, he is 🙄

Me too

@scott r we was raised from the crib to clog or buck dance, in the crib, in good ol' N.C. mountains!! My understanding of the difference, clogging was more of a stomping line dance, buck dancing is free style....just stomp your heart out! 💖

Thanks. So many people from other countries tell us we don't have any culture. Thanks again for paying attention.

@@reginaweiner3817 those are smug kind of ppl, pure projection

Hello 👋 Sylvia. How are you doing ? Hope are you fine. I'm Scott Clifford and am from Denver Colorado, where are you from. You seem like a real country girl

@@scottclifford5594 Hope you too are fine, Mr. Clifford. Yes, I grew up in the country, a small "village" that was always integrated, which made us confused by "the outside world." However, I met my husband in nearby city. We now live along Eastern Shore. Take care 🙏🏻

Exactly what I was going to say. This is the evolutionary form of Irish dancing. Love it!

No, it's more related to Irish Sean-nós dancing.

@@littlehomeinthevalley evolutionary wasn't the term i was looking for... it is the "free for all" version of it, minus the minutious choreography and just .. "Ya know what? Just do it, who cares?"

@@littlehomeinthevalley irish stepdancing only began in the late 1700s most likely taken there by the scots planters. scottish stepdance originated in the hebridean islands of scotland.

This is nowhere near a mountain...

Hush up city boy

Been camping oncthe blue ridge mountains! Fog set incthe mtns thick. Couldnt findmy way back to the campground..took al night. Not fun .but yet it was. Ty Bluenridge Mtns.

Es el halago mas insultante que eh visto.

@eric williams well said eric ,here's were it came from ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CqYQLR-5xMg.html

eric williams Not All... the beauty of keeping a culture alive is that it evolves. People who have no roots in it can love it, learn it, and continue to pass it on.

@MsPorcupinez Not really, it came from settlers from England, Scotland, and Ireland.

@MsPorcupinez You got it by standing on the shoulders of giants, the English, the Scottish, and the Irish.

@MsPorcupinez Then you are are blessed.

Look up Flat Foot dancing and this Guy D.Ray White. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8Zf7tgRbvGY.html

Look up Mathew orwell, ira berstean ,Rebecca stout

This WHAT!?

This tradition goes back hundreds of years. I'm happy to see it kept alive by these fine people. Glad it sparked your interest.

@@helenhighwater5313 where be all the blacks

This is in Athens Alabama. There’s a “Fiddler’s Convention” held annually. All sorts of contests and good times for all.

Hello 👋 Linda. How are you doing ? Hope are you fine. I'm Scott Clifford and am from Denver Colorado, where are you from. You seem like a real country girl