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"The Bailey Mountain Cloggers brought me to MHU over 20 years ago, and it's the reason I'm still here today. This family and this home at Mars Hill University is why this team is so special. Our goal is to continue the traditions and championships of this team year after year."
-Danielle Plimpton, Director of BMC, MHU '06
The Bailey Mountain Cloggers began in 1974 and have won 31 National Championship titles. This diverse team of students has traveled across the national and to over 18 different countries spreading the traditions of Southern Appalachian dance. The Bailey Mountain Cloggers are comprised of university students from across the nation that bring various dance traditions, and represent a number of ethnic and religious backgrounds. Each student clogger becomes a unique part of the Bailey Mountain tradition, blending the old with the new into a larger mosaic for the future. Each year this long championship tradition recreates itself anew, and showcases its traditional and contemporary dance routines in an annual clogging concert each spring. These students serve as ambassadors of goodwill for the university and the folk dance traditions of the Southern Mountains. They have established a national and international reputation for clog dance excellence.