Reading Cloggies Festival Videos
 

A unique record of clog & step dancing

Professionally filmed videos of the Reading Cloggies Festival performances

Featuring many well known clog and step dancers and dance groups

Each Video  or DVD includes the Performers Show which is a fantastic historical record of the talents of many exceptional clog and step dancers

The Workshop Show was filmed at the end of the day when the workshop participants showed what they had learned.  These dances are usually shown at slower than normal performance speed and were intended as a reminder to allow workshop members and other dancers to learn the dances from the film.

All the videos except 1994, 1996 and 2002 also include a lecture

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1993 Festival

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Performers Show 1993

Pat Pickles -  jig dolls

Ross Allen -Appalachian freestyle flat-footing

Greenwood Clog- Clog Waltz to Welsh tunes

Cloverleaf Clog -Priest in His Boots, Jackie's Broom Dance

Melanie Barber -Sam Sherry's Clog Polka

Cobblers Awl -Welsh Clog Hornpipe

Val Knight -Jig Dolls Duet

Rachel Hitchcock -Traditional Dartmoor steps

Green Ginger -Clog Waltz for Six

Deborah Kermode -16step Lakeland Exhibition Hornpipe

Alex Woodcock & Kay Nightingale -1930s Tap Steps

Madeliene Inglehearn & National Early Dance Group

 Richmond or Sailors Hornpipe, The New Female Saylor, The New Female Saylor a la Nancy Dawson

Camden Clog - Clog Sailors Hornpipe, Lancs/Irish routine

Pat Tracey -Old Lancs Heel & Toe routine

Tankerton Steppers- Ermintrude's Waltz

Mick Mulkerrin -Irish traditional sean nos from Connemara

Workshop Showcase

Northumberland & Durham Hornpipe -Alex Woodcock & Kay Nightingale

Lakeland Clog Hornpipe -John Walford

Irish Traditional Sean Nos Steps-Mick Mulkerrin

Flowers of Edinburgh- Colin Robertson

Clog Waltz Old Lancs Heel & Toe Style - Pat Tracey

Northumberland & Durham Clog Hornpipe  - Geoff Hughes

Adamson's Clog Hornpipe - Lesley Gowers

Clog Waltz in Northumberland & Durham style - Sue Jenkinson & Rose Fletcher

Marion Cowpers Pedestal Hornpipe - Ian Dunmur

Old Irish Single Time from Dan Furey - Chris Brady

Bert Bowden's Schottische- Melanie Barber

Appalachian freestyle flatfooting - Ross Allen with Penny & John Allen

Clog in or Sean Nos session - Musician Jackie Rawlinson

LECTURE: Reminiscences of Collecting Traditional Dance in the British Isles, by Joan Flett

1994 Festival

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Performers' Show

Cape Breton Strathspey & Reel Steps - Chequered Flag

Ottawa Valley Steps -  from Eastern Canada

Jig Dolls -  Jenny Foster / Julie Franklin

Clog Waltz - Cloverleaf Clog

Shepherd's Dance -  Cloverleaf Clog

A Job of Journey-work -  Céline Tubridy  Irish traditional set dance in the old style

Lakeland Clog Hornpipe -  Ian Dunmur

Cheshire/North Lancs Competition Clog - Jennifer Hill

Mrs. Willis's Rag - Jennifer Hill

Traditional Northern Clog Hornpipe Steps -  Alex Boydell

Clog Steps in Slip-Jig Time in free-style form - Alex Boydell

Northumberland & Durham Championship Clog - Lynette Eldon

Military Drumbeat Clog Old Lancs 'heel & toe' style - Pat Tracey

Bill Gibbons' Irish Jig -  Camden Clog  A social dance from the Leeds & Liverpool Canal

Appalachian Clogging -   Touchwood Clog

American Tap Routine - Chaplin's Stage School

Professional Pedestal Clog  -  Ronnie Collis

Workshop Showcase

Beginners' N.E. Clog Waltz from Alec Woodcock - Kay Nightingale

Beginners N.E. Clog Hornpipe - Mike Cherry

Beginners Lakeland Clog - John Walford

Bill Gibbons' Canal Steps - Melanie Jordan

Lakeland Clog in Ragtime - Ian Dunmur & Leslie Gowers

Dartmoor Competition Steps - Jennifer Millest.

Northumberland & Durham Championship Clog - Lynette Eldon

Old Style Irish Hornpipe Steps from Co. Clare -  Céline Tubridy

Scottish Sailor's Hornpipe - Colin Robertson

Lancashire/Irish Jig Steps - Pat Tracey

Marley Buck & Wing Clog - Tony Barrand

Appalachian Clogging - Jay & Geoff Cubitt

Additional Footage

Marley Buck & Wing Clog as recorded at a workshop with Anna Marley and Tony Barrand, in Rockville, Connecticut, USA, in 1993

The New Dancing Marleys

Workshop "Show-n-Tell"

 Barn Dance Displays

Newcastle Cloggies

Diddy Dixon's Exhibition Lakeland Steps

Lakeland Three Hand Reel

Veronica Ryan's Buck & Wing Steps

Reading Cloggies

Miss Gayton's Hornpipe - Lesley Gowers

The Priest in his Boots from Dan Furey, Co. Clare Céline Tubridy / Chris Brady / Leslie Gowers

Sam Sherry's Lancashire Hornpipe - Padiham Clog

Marian Cowper's Pedestal Clog - Francis Allison

1995 Festival

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Performers Show

Marley Buck & Wing - New Dancing Marleys

Advanced Clog Waltz - Alex Woodcock

Marley Soft Shoe - New Dancing Marleys

Lakeland Clog - Ian Dunmur

Marley Clog Waltz - New Dancing Marleys

Marley Pedestal Clog - New Dancing Marleys

Sam Sherry’s Hornpipe - Harry Cowgill

Marley Military Drum Roll - New Dancing Marleys

Northumberland & Durham Clog - Lynette Eldon

Marley Staircase Dance & Tambourine Overture - New Dancing Marleys

Lancashire & Cheshire Championship Clog - Jennifer Hill

The Marley Jump-rope Waltz - New Dancing Marleys

English Music Hall Items - Pat Tracey & Camden Clog

Marley Irish Jig - New Dancing Marleys

Workshop Show

Northumberland and Durham Clog Hornpipe - Lesley Gowers

Quickstep Routine - Alex Woodcock & Kay Nightingale.

Lakeland Clog - John Walford

Sam Sherry's Exhibition Clog Hornpipe - Peter Clifton

Lakeland Clog - Ian Dunmur

Cape Breton Step Dancing - Jo & Simon Harmer

Northumberland/Durham Championship Clog Hornpipe - Lynette Eldon

Welsh Clog Broom Dance - Trevor Monson

Marley Military Drum Roll - Kari Smith

Mixed Rhythm Lancashire Clog Routine - Pat Tracey

Marley Family Buck & Wing Clog - Tony Barrand

Appalachian Step & Mountain Dancing - Jay & Geoff Cubitt

Lecture 
‘How the History of American Wooden Shoe (Clog) Dancing was Discovered’ - Rhett Krause & Tony Barrand.

Camden Clog

1996 Festival

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Performers Show

The Northampton Four - Honeysuckle & Bee

Stage Tap - Ronnie Collis

None So Pretty – Jack Brown

Improvised Scottish Step Dance -Cape Breton, Canada – Frank McConnell

Miss Gayton’s Hornpipe - Lesley Gowers

Dance Tunes from New Forest – Stan Seamen

Yorkshire Clog Dance – Gwen Naylor

Northumberland & Durham Clog – Peter Brown

Modern Style French Canadian Step Dancing - Ross Allan

Workshop Show

Northumberland & Durham Clog Hornpipe – Peter Brown

Lakeland Clog – Gill McNab

English Social Dances with Stepping – John Walford

Sammy Bell Exhibition Hornpipe – Tony Sever

Run o’t Mill – Theresa Hindle & Deborah Riley

Lily of Laguna – Gwen Naylor

Irish Set Dance – Val Knight

The Dirk Dance - John Wesencraft & Jane Lloyd

Jig Steps – Peter Clifton

Appalachian Clogging – Ross Allan

Old Lancs Heel & Toe – Pat Tracey & Katherine Tattershall

Adamson’s Clog Hornpipe – Ian Dunmur

Peter Brown

1997 Festival

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Performers Show

Military Routine - Ossy Cloggers

Broom Dance- Shuttlers Clog 

17 Lakeland Steps-- Ian Dunmur  

South African Boot Dance - Ira Bernstein

Strathspey & Reel Steps Cape Breton style - Jo Harmer & Nina Barrel

Mixed rhythm unaccompanied routine - Alison Hargreaves & Carrie Davies

Quebecois Step Dance - Ira Bernstein

English Clog & Jazz Tap - Penny Brookman & Dennis Victory

Seven Slip jig steps - Ednie Wilson

Ira Bernstein - Durham Style Hornpipe

Old Lancashire Heel & Toe - Pat Tracey

Workshop Show

Irish Jig from Burscough - Madeleine Smith

Old Lancs Heel & Toe Steps - John Walford

Northumberland & Durham Clog Hornpipe - Peter Brown

Bacca Pipes & Other Jigs - Jack Brown

Dutch Dance - Theresa Hindle & Deborah Riley

Miss Gaytons Hornpipe - Lesley Gowers

Elsie Brooks' Schottische Steps - Ednie Wilson

Cape Breton Reel & Strathspey Steps - Jo Harmer

Ivy Sands Exhibition Steps - Chris & Alice Metherell

Appalachian Flat Footing - Ira Bernstein

Lecture  ‘The Anomaly of Appalachian Clogging in the United Kingdom’ - Ira Bernstein
 

1998 Festival

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Performers Show

3 Dance Routine – Knickerbocker Glory

Her y Dafern / Tavern Contest – Osian Evans & Aron Davies

Waltz Medley – City Clickers

Rhythm Tap – Ira Bernstein

Country Dance Medley – Maids Morris, Subriny’s Minuet, Northern Nancy - Ladies Maid

Cowper’s Pedestal Dance – Ian Dunmur

Sauerländer 5 & Kruz König – Reading Cloggies

Quebecois Waltz Clog – Ira Bernstein

3/2 Hornpipe, Modern, Ragtime – Jane Pollitt

Footnotes & Trocadero – Puffin Billy’s

10 Best Rhythm Blues & Jazz – Dennis Victory

Appalachian Flatfooting – Ira Bernstein

Workshop Show

Lakeland Clog Steps & Dances – John Walford

Sammy Bell’s Waltz Steps – Julie Williams

Morris Jigs – All the Winds & Shepherd’s Hey – Jack Brown

Scottish Reels c. 1800 – Anne Daye

Musicians Workshop – Chris Jewell

Carmarthenshire Contemporary Clog – Ossian Evans & Aron Davies

British Jazz Tap – Dennis Victory

Lancashire Irish Party Dance – Pat Tracey

Anna Marley Soft Shoe Clog - Carol Nutter

Lancashire & Cheshire Competition Hornpipe – Jane Pollitt

Appalachian Flatfooting – Ira Bernstein

Lecture  The Strathspey Reel – Strictly National & Peculiar to Scotland – Anne Day
 
Ian Dunmur

1999 Festival

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Performers Show

Cumberland Sword Dance – Allenova School

Sheepskins - Isis

Dance for Five – Woodfidley

Step Dancing in 6/8 from Outaouais Region – Pierre Chartrand

Hit the Road, Jack – Allenova School of Dance

Jig Steps from Sam Sherry (1970s) – Peter Clifton

Westmoreland Steps to Ragtime Tunes – Pennyroyal Clog Dancers

Step Dance in 3/2 from Saguenny Region – Pierre Chartrand

A Capella – Broken Ankles

North East Reel & Additional Steps – Jane Pollitt

Music of the Mills – Pat Tracey & Camden Sharp Steppers

Step Dancing in 2/4 – Pierre Chartrand

Workshop Show

Musicians Workshop – Jack Brothwell

Waltz, Hornpipe, Reel & Jig – Mike Cherry

Mrs. Marhoff’s Single Hornpipe – John Walford

Westmoreland/Lakeland Clog Hornpipe – Jennifer Millest

Manx Dances – Nigel Close & Woodfidley

Northumberland & Durham Clog Hornpipe – Peter Brown

Music Hall Routines: Lily of Laguna & Narcissus – Lesley Gowers

Earl of Erroll, Hill Manuscript – Colin Robertson

Five Step Reel – Jane Pollitt

French Canadian Step Dancing from Saguenay Region – Pierre Chartrand

Lecture

The Origins of Step Dancing in Quebec, the Saguenay Region and its Style – Pierre Chartrand.

Jane Pollitt

2000 Festival

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Performers Show

Open Ring Appalachian Clogging – Broken Ankles

Pat Tracey’s Slow Hornpipe – Crosby Lake Clatterers

Hambone Percussion – Julie Young

Welsh Clog – Annie Moore & Mike Cherry

Steps Collected in North East - In Step Research Team

Ontario Waltz – Jo Harmer

Rapper Sword dance – High Spen Blue Diamonds Rapper

High Spen Blue Diamonds

Workshop Show

Appalachian Clogging Routine - Penny & Anthony Allan

Musicians Workshop & Assembled Musicians - Jack Brothwell

The Sailors Hornpipe - Bob Parker

Lakeland Clog - John Walford

Rapper Sword Dance - Alex Fisher

Liverpool Hornpipe & Cumberland Sword Dance - Jennifer Millest

Old Lancs. Heel & Toe Routine B - Kathryn Tattershall

Woodland Flowers Routine - Geoff Hughes

Welsh Clog Step - Carol Loughlin

Jig Steps from Sam Sherry - Peter Clifton

Rapper Sword dance - High Spen Blue Diamonds

Lecture

21 Years Collecting Clog – Chris Metherell 

Jo Harmer

2001 Festival

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Performers Show

Durham Hornpipe – Young Miscellany

Irish Hard & Soft Shoe – Heneghan Dancers

Sam Sherry Exhibition Steps – Chas Fraser

A Musical Mudley – Paul Hutchinson

North Country Clog – Brenda Walker

Rag Time Band – Simon Harmer

Rapper Sword Dance – East Saxon Sword

Chas Fraser

Workshop Show

Musicians Workshop – Paul Hutchinson

Devon Broom & Al Bal Whenney – Rachel Hitchcock

Sam Sherry Lancashire Hornpipe – Chas Fraser

Westmoreland Memory – Chris Coe

East Fife Hornpipe – Leslie Thackeray

Song Bedlam (I Love My Love) - Karen & Colin Cater

Ontario Waltz – Jo Harmer

Northumberland & Durham Jig Steps – Brenda Walker

Rapper Sword Dance – East Saxon Sword

East Saxon Sword

Lecture

Collection of Traditional & Step Dancing and Clog Revival over the last 50 years – Jennifer Millest

Brenda & Bridie Walker

2002 Festival

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Performers Show

Fran’s Dance – Oracle, Newport

Lakeland Steps – Ian Dunmur

Elsie Brooks Steps – Sam Steele - Ridgeway Revellers

Manx Fisherman’s Jig – Ian Craigs & Jean Smith – Brenda Walker’s Reels

Reel-Jig-Hornpipe Medley – David James

Sam Sherry’s Waltz Steps – Carol Nutter

Old Lancs - Lancashire Irish – Camden Clog

David James

Workshop Show

Musicians Workshop - Ian Dunmur

The Nutting Girl, Morris Jig – Mike Garland

Pat Tracey’s Beginners Waltz – Kathryn Tattershall

Moving Feet – Simon Harmer

The Blackbird – David James

Marley Military Roll – Carol Nutter

Elsie Willis’ Double Hornpipe – Ian Craigs

Sam Sherry’s Schottische - Melanie Barber

Melanie Barber

Ian Craigs

 
Camden Clog