

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Flatfooting workshop with Phil Jamison (USA) and live music
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 am – Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 02:15 am (+10:00)
- **Event Description**: Flatfooting Workshop with Phil Jamison (USA) and hot live old-time fiddle tunes by Ross Smithard and Up Jumped Trouble

11:00 for 11:15am-12:15pm, Saturday 11th April, Hobart

St James' Church Hall, 462 Elizabeth St, New Town (off Rupert Ave, enter behind church)

Flatfooting is a traditional form of percussive step dance from the southern Appalachian Mountains of the United States. With roots in earlier dances from the British Isles and Africa, this American dance form is the ancestor of tap dance as well as modern clogging, but as a solo social dance form, it is a way to participate in the dance music with your feet. We will start out with the basic steps and movements of the dance. No prior percussive dance experience is expected or required to participate. No special footwear is required, though smooth, hard soled shoes work best and make the steps easier.

This is part of Dare to be Square Down Under, a weekend of old-time US square dancing, flatfooting, music, history and more, with Phil Jamison - dance caller, old-time musician, flatfoot dancer, author, scholar of traditional Appalachian dance and music (USA), with great Tasmanian live old-time musicians.

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Info: https://folktas.org/daretobesquare

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Phil Jamison is nationally-known within the USA as a dance caller, old-time musician, and flatfoot dancer. He has called dances, performed, and taught at music festivals and dance events throughout the U.S. and overseas since the early 1970s, including over forty years as a member of the Green Grass Cloggers. His flatfoot dancing was featured in the film, Songcatcher, for which he also served as Traditional Dance consultant. From 1982 through 2004, he toured and played guitar with Ralph Blizard and the New Southern Ramblers. He also plays old-time fiddle and banjo. Over the last thirty years, Phil has done extensive research in the area of Appalachian dance, and his book Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance (University of Illinois Press, 2015) tells the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. A 2017 inductee to the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame and a 2022 inductee to America’s Clogging Hall of Fame, Phil taught traditional music and dance at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina for close to thirty years, where he also served as coordinator of the Old-Time Music and Dance Week at the Swannanoa Gathering.

Now he’s coming to Lutruwita/Tasmania for a weekend of dancing, music and history. He’ll give a presentation on the roots and development of Appalachian music and dancing, a concert of old-time music, ballads and dancing, run dance workshops in flatfooting and southern square dancing, run a dance callers’ workshop, call for several square dances, lead an old-time music workshop and an old-time session. He likes to be busy!

Phil’s dances are always great fun, accessible, family friendly and there’s plenty to learn if you wish.

He’ll be joined by experienced local dance callers Sarah “Twinkletoes” Lewis and David “Oddsocks” Wanless, plus veteran local old-time musicians Ross Smithard and Up Jumped Trouble and the Rusticators.

Phil’s the real deal when it comes to Appalachian music and dance.  He’s done extensive research in the area of Appalachian dance, and his book Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance tells the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. Experiencing a Southern US dance and music aficionado like this really is an immensely special opportunity that doesn’t come round often so don’t miss it!
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- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: North Hobart
- **state**: TS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: St James Hall, 462 Elizabeth St, New Town
- **lat**: -42.86853
- **long**: 147.31154
- **full address**: St James Hall, 462 Elizabeth St, New Town, 462 Elizabeth St, Mount Stuart TAS 7000, Australia, North Hobart

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- **organizer**: Folk Federation of Tasmania Inc (https://allevents.in/org/folk-federation-of-tasmania-inc/1790112)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 am (+10:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** St James Hall, 462 Elizabeth St, New Town, 462 Elizabeth St, Mount Stuart TAS 7000, Australia, North Hobart
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Folk Federation of Tasmania Inc
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  - **A:** music, entertainment, workshops, live-music, festivals, dance, concerts, art, literary-art, music-festivals
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