Clogging is an American dance form that started down south in the Appalachian mountains by the Irish, Scottish, English and Dutch-German immigrants, and has evolved over the years, combining tap dancing, Irish and Canadian
step dancing, country/western line dancing, and other dance styles that immigrants to this country brought with them.

The word "Clog" comes from Gaelic, and means "time". Clogging is a dance that is done in time with the music - to the downbeat, usually with the heel keeping rhythm. Like other cloggers around the country, the Yankee Doodle Cloggers dance to a variety of music styles: Country/Western, Irish and Scottish, Big Band music, Cajun, Bluegrass, modern pop, pretty much anything with a good beat!

Wooden shoes???

People often think of large wooden shoes when clogging is mentioned. Cloggers actually dance with a tap shoe that has a special type of tap attached called a “jingle tap”.

Unlike the taps on traditional tap shoes, jingle taps have two pieces of metal, loosely attached, that make noise when they strike each other. The noise that you hear while they are dancing is not really the taps striking the floor, but the two metal pieces of the tap striking each other.