Traditional Dutch Folk Song @ MiddFest

Middletown, Ohio has an annual international festival called MiddFest. This year featured The Netherlands, so there was a plethora of traditional Dutch folk songs and clog dancing. This particular troupe is from Holland, MI who you can see each year at the Tulip Festival

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• The Netherlands
• Middfest
• Middletown
• Ohio
• Clog
• dancing
• Traditional
• Dutch
• Folk
• Songs
• Singing
• October
• 2007

[koast2koast]

This is awesome, they have something a little like this in Holland, Michigan

[bmcirillo]

this group is actually from Holland, MI and take part in the tulip festival each year

[QueenCoCoKid]

beautiful!!!!!

[valinapolka]

@demammoet I wish I could afford to go over there and get copies of this stuff!

[valinapolka]

@sitithesecond Thanks for clearing that up - I've actually never looked that particular word up in my Dutch / English dictionary. I've listened to the countless times my born & raised Dutch father said "These wooden shoes, or Klompen, are not normally worn by dancers, they are worn in the fields to keep feet warm and dry", "but we like dancing on them". I guess I took for granted that the translation he was using was subjective & not literal. I hope we've been able to help our teacher friend.

[Athlon2o0o]

This has nothing to do with the Netherlands, for me as a Dutchmen it sounds like a song from the American countryside. Which, well, it is.

[4chan3]

Volgens mij hebben die amerikanen een heel verkeerd beeld van ons.. Ik lach me verot hier. :")

[pyromaniaknl]

Goodthing there's a little Dutch culture in America never knew that. Cheers!!

[sitithesecond]

@betsukoy This may be a bit late to help you, but I can give you the text of some simple songs in Dutch.

[sitithesecond]

@valinapolka "klompen" zijn "clogs" in het Engels. Niet "wooden shoes".

[sitithesecond]

@palm1dhk definitely not the same level as Xalkiadakis and Manolioudis ... you have such fabulous music in Crete!

[demammoet]

@valinapolka Vervolg: In het Gemeente Museum in Den Haag, ook 's Gravenhage genaamd (Nederland) ligt een schat aan oude muziek, liederen en dansen. Recent is er nog muziek ontdekt. Liedboeken: A. Valerius, Nederlandtsche gedenck-clanck (1626) F. van Duyse, Het oude Nederlandsche lied (1903) D.F. Scheurleer, Van varen en van vechten (1914) F.R. Coers, Liederen van Groot-Nederland (ca. 1920) Veldkamp en De Boer, Kun je nog zingen (1938) Pollmann en Tiggers, Nederlands Volkslied (1977) Groet