"Oldtime Flatfooting", Stephanie Coleman & Cleek Schrey with Nic Gareiss and Matthew Olwell

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"Oldtime Flatfooting", performed by Stephanie Coleman & Cleek Schrey (www.myspace.com/cleekschrey www.myspace.com/stephaniecolemanmusic) with Nic Gareiss & Matthew Olwell in concert at the Institute of Musical Traditions (www.imtfolk.org), Dance Exchange, Takoma Park, Maryland, USA on November 12, 2011.

Stephanie Coleman, Cleek Schrey and Nic Gareiss come together as a trio in the great tradition of Appalachian dance and double-fiddling. From Chicago, Steph fiddles with the all-female string band Uncle Earl. From Virginia, Cleek fiddles in the string band Bigfoot and both plays and flat-foots with Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble.

Originally from Michigan, Nic has danced with Bruce Molsky, Liz Carroll, and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.
Cleek and Stephanie began playing together after both moving to the unlikely old-time music hotbed of Brooklyn, NY. A reunion with Nic in Cork, Ireland spurred the trio on with the mission of exploring Appalachian fiddle and dance to its very edges. Their music eschews fusion and embraces repertoire, seeking to probe the corners, hollows and curvatures of traditional American music and dance in search of new possibilities of interpretation. IN this video they are accompied by legendary dancer Matthew Olwell.

Sound: Dave Richardson

Camera: Laura Christoplos, Ralph Lillie

Editing: Ralph Lillie

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