This looks like the country buck dancing we have in America .Old rural southern people still dance this way , black and white ,its great to know where this dancing comes from come - I think Irish bring it to America when they settle in the Southern American states .
Bianca Britt yes, but not only old! I'm seventeen years old, brought up in the rural Appalachians of North Carolina along the Tennessee border in a Scots-Irish family. My siblings and I were taught clog dancing from a young age, and it's always a joy to share when I leave the Appalachians and find people unaware of the dance style :) My youngest sister is nine years old, and she's a better dancer than I am. It brings me joy to see that young people still do it here.
Yeah, Buck dancing came from the dance styles of the British Isles from immigration. You had English and Welsh clogging, and Irish Sean Nos as you see here. Those dancers moved over and it became Buck dancing in the US with slightly different musical rhythms that developed in the rural South, but remained quite pure to it's roots. Where as Tap dance or "Hoofing" which gained far more fame on the big screen, came from Sean Nos dancers and cloggers sharing their steps with African American slaves, who at the time were dancing in their own way, using their feet to make music after thier instruments were taken from them. When they mixed their African steps and rythms with the Irish steps, Tap dancing was born, which lead to the sub-styles of "Rhythmic tap" and "Jazz tap" (in black communities) and "Broadway tap" when it hit places like Hollywood.
quality the best step dancer I ever saw my grandfather used to dance like this he was from Clones Co Monaghan it was handed down over generations unfortunately he passed away in the 1980s many a night I watched him dance infront of a big turf fire great memories thanks for posting this it takes me back
😿 In ainm Dé! The best of the best to me with Róisín Ní Mhainín. Did some of his family members dance as well too? I wish I’d had some rince lessons by him. Beannachtaí Dé air! Amen.
Very late, I learn of him-- it is 2023 now .. My deep condolences as to you loss, of your dear Tom.. thank you for letting us know.. 😢.. thank you, to the video uploaded--- I am so VERY much, richer, now, in dance, due to Tom🏆🏆🏆..*thank you, tom, for being you, in life... go raibh MILE maith agat..❤
Wow, this looks so much like the "clogging" type of traditional dance they do in Appalachia in the U.S. where my family is from. I guess I now know where my people got their dancing style from originally.
Tom is a very good friend of mine, cant believe he is on youtube, doubt he even would know what youtube is!! He is still dancing and a member of the Tara Ceili Band
Huge numbers of European immigrants to Appalachia were also from England (mostly northern England). The English played (and still play) similar music and danced (and still dance) similar styles of step dancing. Do you not think it possible that these traditions also informed Appalachian music and dance? I know it's not fashionable to acknowledge English traditions in the popular imagination these days, but these people did exist and they danced, sang and played music.
Abiezer Coppe, I didnt know that, I'd say lots of others dont either. Any tips on what we could search for (or direct links) ? Would love to hear and see anything related. I know a lot of Northern Irish (Scotch-Irish) ended up in Appalachia. Apparently they were mainly originally of Scottish lowland stock (sorry, I dont know the correct terms here). So Scottish would have been a big influence too, maybe even more so than the Irish.
@@sdrtcacgnrjrc well I'm 3 years late to this comnent, a wee correction, Sean Nós is irish, Ulster Scots were British colonisers, we called them "planters", settlers sent to colonise in Ireland (l won't go into the cruel history), our culture rubbed off on them as they were a minority, any scot that then moved on to the Appalachian mountains would have taken this dance with them and from there it evolved to buck dancing, it's still called Sean nós here in Ireland and way more a complicated step structured dance that you cannot just wing. As a proud irish l felt it was only right to inform...lol.
Thats because Ireland is where it came from Clyde! Er yes it is REAL Irish dancing. A direct result of old Real irish dancing that you can still witness in Ireland expescially the Irish speaking parts of Ireland, to this day. See Sean Nos dancing for the old style. Sean Nós Dance Devane Sean Nós - Galway July 2013 Roisin Ni Mhainin & Johnny Connolly It is ironically real Irish dancing, the stiff arm style that more kniow of and riverdance adapted, all came from this simpler older irish peoples dance! not the other way around. Clogs are not a dutch thing, nor are they from gthe mills of england, execpt via Irish immigrants. Clogs were the usual brogue of the Irish people, expecially of the west and peat land As for cockburns idea on whiskey! Whiskey is in facta word from the Irish language! For good and mostly bad, Ireland (Irish monks) first brewed whiskey in Munster and then to the rest of Ireland and onto Scotland and the world. In English langauge The Irish do spell it whiskey as so, and seen as we invented the stuff, have some respect! The Irish settled Nova Scotia since the 16th Century as did later scots firstv from the Highlands of Scotland, people who were culturally of Irish ancestry and more identity. Even the scots language was known for centuries as Erse (phonetic for Irish).
+irishaware Yes, this is real irish, as you say. The modern style of Irish competition dancing originates from the US. However ... you have to realise that this step dancing was a variant of the different related styles of step dancing from all over the British Isles. There were professional Lancashire clog dancers on US vaudeville stages and the different types of English clog and step dancing influenced US traditions as well as those from Ireland (not forgetting Scotland too).
@@abiezercoppe8886 Clog dancing originated in Ireland and was brought to parts of England and Scotland by Irish immigrants. Fancy flat foot in the u.s originate from Irish Sean Nós Dance. Iv'e been to Virginia many times and they all think they're Irish over there. Also Whiskey originated in Ireland the oldest evidence of whiskey is found in Ireland from the annals of clonmacnoise. The word Whiskey comes from Irish. It's not impossible that Irish could have invented whiskey during the dark ages as Irish monks had contact with far traders, and then brought it to Scotland. Here is the quote from Wikipedia. English clog dancing began in 18th century England during the Industrial Revolution.[9][10] It is thought to have developed in the Lancashire cotton mills where wooden-soled clogs were preferred to leather soles because the floors were kept wet to help keep the humidity high, important in cotton spinning. This would have been the sametime when Irish where immigrating to Lancashire.
shon masha chal ach gaelic? chalemoni strangulus. j/k lol. not making funof you. I just wanted to see if anyone would believe I spoke a foriegn language if I just made something up lol.
quality the best step dancer I ever saw my grandfather used to dance like this he was from Clones Co Monaghan it was handed down over generations unfortunately he passed away in the 1980s many a night I watched him dance infront of a big turf fire great memories thanks for posting this it takes me back
quality the best step dancer I ever saw my grandfather used to dance like this he was from Clones Co Monaghan it was handed down over generations unfortunately he passed away in the 1980s many a night I watched him dance infront of a big turf fire great memories thanks for posting this it takes me back
