Largest Clog Dance

The Pella Tulip Festival has a rich Dutch heritage. It comes around the time when thousands of Tulip flowers bloom to their fullest   throughout the city. If you are to visit the gardens of the Scholte home you would be lucky enough to find beautiful tulips bloom beyond imagination.  The Pella parade comprises of the   colourful floats, marching bands,  klompen dancers  which light up the atmosphere in the place. It is one of the fantastic times of celebrating Spring with your friends.

This time during the Tulip Festival  in Pella town  we had 2604  persons   doing a  clog dance for more than six minutes  thus bring Holland alive  in the state of Iowa. And the striking part of the performance was that most of the dancers had worn wooden shoes.

The previous world record for the largest clog dance was set by 475 people in Netherlands in 2006. Each year during the first weekend in May, Pella, Iowa celebrates their Dutch heritage as dancers perform in wooden shoes beneath windmills and the air is thick with the smell of baked goods for sale.     Some dancers stuffed their wooden clogs with sponges or wore thick socks. 

 Amy VanHaaften, a member who served the steering committee was delighted with the response. When the vent was at the planning stage the committee members along with her wondered whether they would ever reach 500 or even get near to 1000. But as the time came close the numbers only got bigger and bigger to only make the event so successful.

The largest clog dance counted to 2604 persons and was set by the Pella Tulip Festival at Pella, Iowa, United States of America on May 31, 2010.