Morgan and Madison Mallum | Traditional Clogging Duet 

I grew up in the southeast in a family line of Scots-Irish people who clogged, square-danced, reeled, and played in bluegrass bands. This has some clogging steps incorporated but is not technically clogging per se. Before the 1930s it was done in your normal leather-soled shoes that had no taps attached. by the 60s you could buy paten leather shoes with steel taps attached to the toe and heal so you could make louder noise on wooden floors of the barn-dances and dance-halls. Originally came from British isles as a celebratory dance style that was done at community gatherings and festivals. it's roots are in the traditional "step" dances from Ireland, Scotland, and England. The danced anywhere they could that had space and wooden floors - usually a meeting or public house (i.e. a pub). I heard one man say factories - but I find that doubtful because the factory would be studded with iron-made machinery (not movable) and supplies - I don't know if they really had room to dance in a factory when they already had public houses. (in fact to this day, the Irish, Scottish, and English still do the same thing. Pubs are used to meet for community business, for social gatherings and festivals - and they dance and have music.) I do know they also put together wooden floored dance platforms out in the open air - typically somewhere on someone's farm where they had appropriate situation and centrality to the community at large. These structures raised platforms were built at times of harvest or at big gatherings where people would have a night of dancing and music. The tradition in 19th and 20th centuries was to build a town hall (public house) or use a barn that had wooden flooring put in. Post WW2 era, they actually built a civic house to formally use as a dance hall or have a room dedicated to community dancing events like VFW hall, Elks club, etc. Dancing became more frequent. I currently live in Maryland near the Appalachians (I can see Catoctin Mountain from my home) and they have a town hall and a civic room upstairs is used both for town-hall public meetings on some nights and on other nights it is used for a dance hall. They don't clog around here as far as I know, because they are mostly German Lutherans. But they have some square-dance clubs and other dances.

Ah. were you in the ad agency that devised that great Geico insurance ad? We just love it.

Clogging descends from the entire British Isles, which geographically includes Ireland.

Yup, very sad. It's an important aspect, the music shouldn't override it.

Need to hear ytje. Tapping .

Jon Jones 🤣🤣🤣 if I count move like this girls move I will size 5 again 🤣🤣

@@tinafernandez1535 ha ha, we all could do with a bit of what they have... give it a go, enjoyment alone would be worth it, size 5 again is a bonus.

Yup, that's a big part of the attraction.

I agree that it would be nice to,have heard the clogging. The music and or the crowd drowned out the clogging tap to the point I’d ask, “did they even make any tap/clicking noise??? WTH.?

Not in the U. S. or Canada