Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks

Subject: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Gervase
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 06:30 AM

It's one of those addiction things. My other 'arf has been bitten by the Appalachian flatfooting bug and is now desperate to find a team/side/group of like-minded individuals (or even an individual teacher) in or around the Bucks and Berks area of the UK.
If anyone knows of any resources, all will be gratefully recieved. Many thanks....
GW

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: nickp
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 06:45 AM

Yes - PM me - assuming you can get it to work. My wife & I maintain the Clogging List whish is the list of UK App. Clogging teams. It's fairly up to date and we ought to be able to find something to help. Was she at Towersey, if so she may have talked to us there.

Nick

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Hawker
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:06 AM

Gervase,
My friend Sara Marshall is a cracking Appalachian Dancer and teacher, she lives in the Reading area, her website

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Hawker
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:09 AM

disappeared! try here: PRESS! has her infor & contact details. Regards,
Lucy

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Hawker
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:11 AM

BUGGER!!!
Try once more........
,a href="www.any-web-address.co.uk/flatfoot">PRESS

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Hawker
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:12 AM

HELP!!!!!!!!!! PRESS!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Hawker
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:14 AM

HELP!!!!!!!!!! PRESS!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Hawker
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:17 AM

RIGHT! FOR THE LAST TIME......
PLEASE WORK! PRESS HERE!
Lucy

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Hawker
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:18 AM

HOORAH! - and the morale of the story is... don't try to post when your holiday weary kids are fighting over ice cream!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:21 AM

This is a great thread! for me. If my old brain serves me well - Reading in the Royal County - was the very place where in 1984/5 the American Banjo became the City's latest and greatest revolution, not overtaking Mick Jagger another local product. There were at least two folk bands providing bloggle. Later - 87 I think, there arrived one duet from the west, a genuine US Fiddler and a local lad - gone wrong through the acquisition of a SS Stewart Banjo: whenandwerever they played folks wanted to dance so later - muuuch later - other oh I am hacked - ok - better bands arose and so began the great invasion of 'Jiggle Dancin' also known in the local millieuxs - Appalasian and Ozark Mtns as 'Chigger Stomping'.

Happy then am I to learn that the seed of Pete Seger's books' students' miss thumbing hath borne cloggie fruit in the city of Cook kooo - and the Doe which fartheth!

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:29 AM

And I forgot to add I too would like a chigger stomper to help erradicate the bugs in my yard!

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: nickp
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:31 AM

Yup, Sara would be good if that's the area, her 'team' (Oracle) is a teenagers team but she does teach adults on (currently) a non-team basis.

Other links to UK teams in general - well those that I know have a web site - can be found at the links page of www.bluefields.org.uk

Gervase, if PM-ing gives problems there's an email link on the Bluefields site.

Nick

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Venthony
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 12:48 PM

Bucks and Berks! -- sweet little ol yankee me, I thought this thread was about what kinda shoes to dance in!

LOL Tony

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: M.Ted
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 05:02 PM

And I thought it was about the Bucks and Berks that are not far from Reading,PA--

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 04:43 AM

Gervase - what about Haddenham Hoofers? They're good, and good fun (and Lonnie Donegan is a fan of theirs since he saw them at Sidmouth last year!).

Kitty

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: nickp
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 05:23 AM

Kitty, depends where exactly Gervase (and, of course his wife) live. If he PMs me I'll try and find his (her) nearest team. If the PM doesn't work I'll put an email here in suitably 'expanded' form.

Nick (on behalf of the Clogging List)

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: nickp
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 06:53 AM

Thanks for the PM Kitty, sorted - we hope!

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: Gervase
Date: 02 Sep 02 - 06:28 AM

Many thanks for messages and PMs. I fear I may be about to become cuckolded by a hard wooden floor and a fiddle!

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: nickp
Date: 02 Sep 02 - 06:38 AM

Yes, but it's worth it to keep them happy!

And better a fiddle than a banjo (OOOPS did I really say that!). If you need any oldtime music influence to help check out FOAOTMAD (Friends of American Old Time Music and Dance), UK based enthusiasts, web site at www.pillard.demon.co.uk/foaotmad

Nick

Subject: RE: Help: Appalachian flatfooting in Bucks/Berks
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 05:38 PM

There is a new team in London Colney, just south of St Albans "Tappalachian"

Practice on Wednesday evenings at the White Lion .

Hadenham Hoofers are based in Haddenham, Bucks, between Aylesbury and Thame, and rehearse on Thursday evenings




Also there are Monthly classes on Saturday mornings in Pirton, starting in late September, Teacher is Kerry Fletcher.

Also a new Monthly Monday class starting in Pirton on 8th September (possibly)

Mail me if you want details of any of these [e-mail].