Well I was there - dancing with the Kingsmen - and I thought it was a quite good thing. The only mainstay folkies around were the 3 professional clog dancers: Laura, Tiny and Fiona, and then the 4 musicians - Paul Knox, Kevin Lees, Ruth Ball and Ali Anderson (3 of the 4 of them are part of the Kingsmen)

What impressed me most was that the vast majority of the participants in the crowd really were doing it on spec. There were so many people who turned up to learn who had not ever seen anything like this before - office workers, students etc.

You should have seen their faces when they first saw a rapper dance!

However, I don't know how many of them have actually taken up clog dancing, it would be interesting to talk to Brenda and see if her numbers have improved. - certainly we had no extra people come along to Kingsmen practice the next week...

Cheers
Tom