Now I knew what flat foot dancing was (Cajun and Zydeco you betcha!) but I never knew what a floy floy was! AAAAAaaaanyhoo . . . . . you still dancin’!? I know I am!
Alphonse ‘Bois Sec’* Ardoin dancing
Clark Kessenger accompanies on fiddle
‘Leather Britches'
Flat foot dancing legend
Eh Tois!
West Virginia old-time fiddler Clark Kessinger playing "Leather Britches." Captured by Alan Lomax at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island 1966. Video courtesy of @stefangrossmanguitarworkshop youtube page!
* Bois Sec’
a curious nickname from childhood meaning literally ‘Dry Wood’
as he was renowned as a child to be the first
to run in from the plantation fields when it rained! (Go figure!?)
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