Alphonse ‘Bois Sec’ Ardoin accompanied by Clark Kessinger - "Leather Britches" filmed by Alan Lomax at the Newport Folk Festival 1966.

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!?)