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NEWS OF THE LOCAL TAPATHON FEATURING THE KM DANCE GROUP AND A STORY OF A TAPATHON ON VICTORIA STATION · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And finally Tapathon. Now what is a tapathon? I hear
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  Speaker 1: you ask, well, tapithon Tapathon keV. Yeah, Tapathon is a
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  Speaker 1: UK charity dance routine for children in need. It's an
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  Speaker 1: attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the greatest
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  Speaker 1: number of people performing the same tap routine at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. It's not something that goes on for hours
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  Speaker 1: and hours, just one song performed by tap dancers at
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  Speaker 1: different venues around the country simultaneously. That's the thing. Now locally,
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  Speaker 1: Kirsty Marie's dance group will be performing at Palmar School
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  Speaker 1: at one o'clock on Sunday. Now, Kirsty's group consists of
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  Speaker 1: six dancers, two mums and daughters. And at this point
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  Speaker 1: I want to say hello to Lisa and Blossom Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you a little bit more about that in
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  Speaker 1: a minute. And of course I want to say hello
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  Speaker 1: to Flow Flow Ska. They came in last year. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you about that in a minute. And so where
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  Speaker 1: were we, uh, two bums and daughters, an older lady
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  Speaker 1: and Kirsty herself. Now the current world record, I think,
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  Speaker 1: I hope I got this right. For all these dancers
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  Speaker 1: to dance together is seven thousand, five hundred and ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, they doing it all to the same song.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they are doing it all to the same
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  Speaker 1: song at the same time. So you could probably be
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  Speaker 1: walking anywhere in the country and think, what's that who's
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  Speaker 1: banging that hammer? You know that you could hear them? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: interesting anyway, KM dancers there and will be also performing
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  Speaker 1: at the Folks and Christmas light Switch on on Saunday
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  Speaker 1: the twenty third of November, and they're also dancing at
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  Speaker 1: the Light Up Dover on Saturday the seventh and right
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  Speaker 1: we were saying that. Now, Kirsty and Blossom and Flow
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  Speaker 1: came into the studio last year just after they'd done
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  Speaker 1: the tapathon and it was so lovely to speak to them.
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  Speaker 1: So I did find out that Lisa and Blossom are
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  Speaker 1: doing it again today, so good luck to them. And
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to get them in again into the studio
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  Speaker 1: with young children if you like, as long as they
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  Speaker 1: come in with an adult. Of course, it's difficult because
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  Speaker 1: we need to get them in where they're not at school,
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  Speaker 1: So we're working on.
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  Speaker 2: That one coming on Saturday on Saturday. Of course, visually
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  Speaker 2: it won't be that brilliant but we get to do
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  Speaker 2: something now.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to know more about what's going on
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  Speaker 1: dance wise, the user's point of contact is the km
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  Speaker 1: Dance Facebook page or their Kirstymrie Dance dot co dot
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  Speaker 1: uk website. They hold classes at the High Sports Pavilion
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday and it's a John's Church hall focused
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  Speaker 1: on on a Tuesday. Now, I'll talking to a friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine this morning about this tapathon A randomly okay
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  Speaker 1: to start at the beginning. Ray Mirrorbo is a friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine who I went to school with many many
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and we meet up sort of once a
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  Speaker 1: year and have a little chat. And he's a sprightly
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  Speaker 1: seventy four year old and only took up tap dancing
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And he and his.
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  Speaker 1: Group, I've got this right. The Shirley Tappers and Hotfoot
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  Speaker 1: Tappers are performing and there's fifteen of them in the
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  Speaker 1: area in front of the public notice board for passing
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  Speaker 1: passages on Victoria Station today. Yeah, I mean some of
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  Speaker 1: the venues I bet there is absolutely awesome.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be packed anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, you could you see what you have
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  Speaker 1: to do? Because I asked, I played back my interview
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  Speaker 1: with Kirsty last year and what they had to do
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  Speaker 1: to verify that there's so many in your class. They
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  Speaker 1: have to video the amount of people on the phone
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  Speaker 1: and send it off and then they get to clarify verification.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, I want to say good luck to the
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  Speaker 1: group leader and Maria Taylor. You've got a lovely job
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  Speaker 1: on your hands. Love to see the video this one
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  Speaker 1: that Victoria Station. And by the way, Ray is having
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  Speaker 1: the time of his life as he is the only
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  Speaker 1: fella in the group. So yeah, sneaky about that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: very nice as a chance you this morning. Okay. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the thing is they all dance to one particular song
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  Speaker 1: and so at around about twelve thirty this song will
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  Speaker 1: be playing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go. I don't even need to tell
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  Speaker 2: you what it is.
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  Speaker 1: You'll know