Bluegrass Roots
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That's my wife (with the long dark hair) starting at 2:20. As of this date, (2/20/12) , God has blessed us with being married 43 years!
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bluegrass roots = ireland
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Reading the nonsense on wikipedia about Mountain Dancing (and its variants) makes for disappointing reading. America is in such a rush to state that everything is a mixture of ten thousand cultures when this form of dancing is quite patently Irish in its entirety. Just listen to the music, the sets, the almost perfect reproduction of Irish Ceilidh movements. "Cherokee", "Dutch"...what nonsense; this is Irish folk dancing.
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this is when there were less fat and depressed kids.
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This world is alive and kicking at White News Now dot com. See you there.
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@funkoforte I grew up on this music. Proud of it too.
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@funkoforte This is true too. There are younge folks keeping it alive but, most don't know or see it usually.
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@CadillacL You are right, and I hope I will have a chance to see this before it's gone. However, beautiful things never really die. There will always be moments and places for beautiful things to arise again, sometimes in very unexpected ways surrounded by confusiuon. No real dance step ever dies, no real musical note can decay! Documents like this help to keep the eyes open for beauty.
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Apart from the dancing, which is great, there's two things I love about this clip:
1) How great it is to see people for whom it was still a big thing to be filmed. In particular, the young girl around 4.55. The look on her face is truly charming, a word not used much these days. How unlike the smart-alec kids forced on us these days by movies and TV.
2) How great it is to see young and old doing something together. When did the generations become separated from each other at work and play?
jude13 2 years ago 13
Not an Ipod, or Wii, or Gameboy in sight. And look at the fun these people are obviously having ! Thanks for posting this David, From someone who has roots in this region of America, and will never forget it.
CFMD28 1 year ago 6