Instructor
Director Linda Carolan, CCI
In 1833 my great-great-great-great-great grandfather came to Texas from Christian County, Kentucky, and I’ve heard tales of various relatives who either played the banjo, fiddled or danced the jig. My grandfather was a fiddle player, and he learned from his mother.
My great-grandmother taught me some of the steps which our family called jiggin’or flat footing and I would dance while Grandpa fiddled. I later learned from an Irish dance instructor that this is called Sean Nos style of Irish dance.
I have tried to pass the steps on to my own daughter and for years we've included a segment in our shows where she joined me and my dad in demonstrating jiggin’ featuring my Grandpa’s well preserved fiddle music.
Credentials
Certified Clogging Instructor:
- Certified by Clogging Leaders Organization
- Graduate of NCHC/CLOG Academy of Teaching
Fire-on-the-Mountain Cloggers® have presented hundreds of shows, and I’ve taught many, many dancers and written many routines since Rusty and I performed our first duet. Clogging is such fun and to God be the glory.
When I was sixteen years old, I accepted Christ. I became a believer and knew that I would be with Him in heaven when I died. But it took me another sixteen years to realize that I was still struggling to run my own life and be in charge. I knew I wanted a personal relationship with Him and so I asked Him to be Lord of my life.
"And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13
I know that everything that I am I owe to Him. He has given me a great gift. First, the gift of His Son, who died so that all who believe may obtain the free gift of salvation. Second, a loving family and third, my love of dance.
"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven… A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance."
Ecclesiastes 3:1–4
And now, as we say at the end of all our shows, "May God bless you real good!"