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The residents and visitors of Galway City were amazed when they saw an amazing dance routine in their city center. And the internet is just as impressed.

It all began when a young woman walked into the middle of a busy high street in Ireland. The woman, Lisa McHugh, then started singing one of her own songs, Hillbilly Girl.

She turned to the camera, clapped and danced. Then she started singing the opening lyrics to the song, “Well, I don’t mind if I ain’t got time, but that don’t bother me.”

The people around her were delighted.

Then a group of different people ran behind McHugh and started joining in with the dance. They were members of Struttin Stars, an Irish dance group.

They were all women and girls, and their ages ranged from being young children to middle-aged. But they all synchronized with McHugh and made the performance something really special.

Then even more dancers joined the women on the impromptu dancefloor. And then more.

Pretty soon, a large crowd had gathered around the dancers to see them strut back and forth.

When everyone had finished their routine, a large clap came from the gathered crowds. Clearly, they had loved seeing this unexpected performance.

McHugh uploaded the video to her YouTube channel, where it soon went viral. To date, it has managed to gain over 10.4 million views. It also has 27,000 likes. That makes it McHugh’s most popular video of all time. Her next most popular video has 4.3 million views.

Lisa McHugh is clearly a talented musician. She is 31 years old and has to date released seven different albums of country music.

And what’s even more impressive is that 11 of her 13 singles have managed to reach number one of the iTunes Irish country chart. She has toured Ireland, the UK and the rest of Europe extensively.

Many people online have been organizing flash mobs all around the world for almost 20 years now.

Some may be confused by their popularity. But the appeal of seeing an impromptu dance performance in public is clear to many others.

You may be wondering where flash mobs came from. Well, they date back to the year 2003, when Bill Wasik, the senior editor of Harper’s Magazine came up with the idea.

Wasik started it by emailing 50 people, asking them to meet and dance in a store in Manhattan. However, this first attempt at a flash mob was unsuccessful, as the store had heard about the impromptu dance plan and stopped it from happening.

Wasik still wanted to create a flash mob, so he tried again. This time, 100 people went to Macy’s in Manhattan, and they successfully danced away in the middle of the premises.

After that first successful flash mob, people all across New York City started flash mobbing. Then flash mobs started sprouting up all across the USA, then Europe and then Asia.

Just think, flash mobs can be traced back to one event in New York almost 20 years ago, and today they are still going on strong and have become the stuff of thousands of YouTube videos!

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Source: Lisa McHugh, Wired, CNN