WHY is it that when it comes to ethnic dancing England is always represented by Morris dancing? Nothing against Morris dancing, there's not much you can say about it really. Its just that we have better.
It's called tap dancing, you might have heard of it? Betcha thought it was American eh?
Well it's not. It was born, created, originated on the cobbled stone streets of good old Lancashire. A mixture of Irish dancing and Lancashire (and Yorkshire) clog dancing. So why on earth hasn't some enterprising Lancashire cotton town claimed it and used it to make money? Like an annual international tap dance jamboree.
Look what the big-thinking Yanks have done with Graceland, the Grand Ol' Opry, and birth-of-the-blues New Orleans.
"Come to Manchester?, Blackburn, Burnley?, home of Tap". Go to it, Lancashire, before Yorkshire or, worse, Ireland beats you to it. It could go well with Liverpool's "European city of culture."
E FIRTH, Wellington Street, Wilsden, Bradford.
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