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With the popularity of the Riverdance phenomenon, the time is right for the rediscovery of traditional folk dance music and folk dancing with similar roots and style in America. 'According to `word of mouth' accounts of older dancers I've met and observed since my childhood, traditional dancing in America appears to be a synthesis of dance forms brought from other countries by the early sixties as well as some influence from the native Indians. There are many obvious carryovers from Irish jigs and stepdancing, Scottish dancing and of course English clogging. Another very prevalent influence in the South was buckdancing which came out of the early black culture.' --from the notes by Beverly Cotten