{"id":7462,"date":"2024-12-01T08:15:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T08:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/?p=7462"},"modified":"2024-12-01T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T08:15:31","slug":"he-uses-her-feet-for-a-beat-whilst-playing-an-infectious-melody-on-the-violin-the-coordination-required-to-execute-these-dance-moves-while-playing-the-fiddle-is-truly-off-the-charts-but-she","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/?p=7462","title":{"rendered":"he uses her feet for a beat whilst playing an infectious melody on the violin \u2013 the coordination required to execute these dance moves while playing the fiddle is truly off-the-charts but she makes it look easy.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Hillary Klug is one of those musicians who makes her talents look super simple when really it\u2019s almost humanly impossible. She is an exceptional buck dancer (aka tap dancing\/clogging) and violinist. When she mixes the two together the results are extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary plays the violin whilst dancing on a wooden platform, using her feet for a beat and her violin for the melody, she creates extremely entertaining music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"rll-youtube-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3lNkCt1CDc0\" data-id=\"3lNkCt1CDc0\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-alt=\"Hillary Klug - Cotton Eyed Joe\">\n<div data-id=\"3lNkCt1CDc0\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3lNkCt1CDc0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/3lNkCt1CDc0\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Klug - Cotton Eyed Joe\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hillary was born and raised in Fayetteville, Tennessee where she lived for 18 years and she lived in Lynchburg, Virginia for 7 years. She has now moved back to Nashville to busk and continue to pursue her music career.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary started dancing at the age of 8 when she joined a clogging class which is where her artistic journey began. It wasn\u2019t until she was 13 years old that she first picked up a fiddle (violin). Even though her family wasn\u2019t particularly musical, her mum supported her with her musical ambitions helping her to buy her first violin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b-r b-r--middle_content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rll-youtube-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cSSs4KUCEDE\" data-id=\"cSSs4KUCEDE\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-alt=\"Hillary Klug - Cotton Eyed Joe - Triplets\">\n<div data-id=\"cSSs4KUCEDE\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cSSs4KUCEDE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/cSSs4KUCEDE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Klug - Cotton Eyed Joe - Triplets\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She started attending group violin lessons which didn\u2019t go as well as she would have liked, taking over 3 months to learn Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Not wanting to let her mum or herself down by quitting, she explored other routes to continue learning her instrument. She met a fiddle teacher at a local contra dance who started to shape her musical style and ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting her new fiddle teacher, Hillary started to mix with people from the old-time music scene in her area. She said,\u00a0<i>\u201cNobody in my family plays music or dances, and I had no idea that the world of old-time music and dance existed, but the more I learned, the more I was drawn to it. \u201c<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"rll-youtube-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XsHQQ2BYaCQ\" data-id=\"XsHQQ2BYaCQ\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-alt=\"Hillary Klug - Oh! Susanna\">\n<div data-id=\"XsHQQ2BYaCQ\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XsHQQ2BYaCQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/XsHQQ2BYaCQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Klug - Oh! Susanna\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hillary was now playing weekly square dances and also went on to become a National Buck Dancing Champion (\u201cBuck Dancing\u201d is also known as Clogging, a type of folk dance practiced in the United States). She was also Kentucky State Dance Champion.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary is now touring, showcasing her incredible talents to the world via live shows, and building her online presence. She opened her YouTube channel in 2018 and has already amassed over 18 million views.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Klug is one of those musicians who makes her talents look super simple when really it\u2019s almost humanly impossible. 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