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JCB Dancing Diggers

The JCB Dancing Diggers are an iconic live performance team, they have curtsied for the Queen; pirouetted for TV and thrilled thousands all over the world. Showcasing power, precision and performance, the JCB Dancing Diggers execute a variety of choregraphed moves set to music. The performance combines the engineering excellence of JCB machinery with entertainment, making it a crowd favourite at public events worldwide.

Below, you can meet the team behind the legendary JCB Dancing Diggers.

Dancing Diggers demonstration team with Backoe Loaders
Dancing Diggers - Matthew Lucas

Matthew Lucas

Favourite Machine: JCB GT

  • No of Licenses: 19
  • Years of Service: 20
  • Countries Visited: 61
  • Celebrities Met: 39
  • Embarrassing Moments: 1
Dancing Diggers - Guy Sutton

Guy Sutton

Favourite Machine: Fastrac

  • No of Licenses: 9
  • Years of Service: 9
  • Countries Visited: 9
  • Celebrities Met: 11
  • Embarrassing Moments: 2
Dancing Diggers - Jack Fowkes

Jack Fowkes

Favourite Machine: HMEE (High mobility engineer excavator)

  • No of Licenses: 11
  • Years of Service: 4
  • Countries Visited: 19
  • Celebrities Met: 40
  • Embarrassing Moments: 0
Dancing Diggers - James Sewell

James Sewell

Favourite Machine: 437 wheeled loader

  • No of Licenses: 19
  • Years of Service: 20
  • Countries Visited: 41
  • Celebrities Met: 5
  • Embarrassing Moments: 2
Dancing Diggers - Laure Ashton

Laure Ashton

Favourite Machine: 370X excavator

  • No of Licenses: 13
  • Years of Service: 4
  • Countries Visited: 1
  • Celebrities Met: 4
  • Embarrassing Moments: 3
Dancing Diggers - Mark Griffiths

Mark Griffiths

Favourite Machine: 3CX Backhoe Loader

  • No of Licenses: 10
  • Years of Service: 9
  • Countries Visited: 14
  • Celebrities Met: 1
  • Embarrassing Moments: 3
Dancing Diggers - Mathew Tolley

Mathew Tolley

Favourite Machine: 3TS-8W Teleskid

  • No of Licenses: 6
  • Years of Service: 2
  • Countries Visited: 8
  • Celebrities Met: 23
  • Embarrassing Moments: 6
Dancing Diggers - Nigel Walker

Nigel Walker

Favourite Machine: Rotating telehandler

  • No of Licenses: 24
  • Years of Service: 27
  • Countries Visited: 40
  • Celebrities Met: 8
  • Embarrassing Moments: 1
Dancing Diggers - Phil Turner

Phil Turner

Favourite Machine: Wheeled excavator

  • No of Licenses: 7
  • Years of Service: 16
  • Countries Visited: 36
  • Celebrities Met: 3
  • Embarrassing Moments: 3
Dancing Diggers - Sam Bryant

Sam Bryant

Favourite Machine: 145XR excavator

  • No of Licenses: 15
  • Years of Service: 3
  • Countries Visited: 7
  • Celebrities Met: 4
  • Embarrassing Moments: 0
Dancing Diggers - Harvey Williams

Harvey Williams

Favourite Machine: 245XR excavator

  • No of Licenses: 6
  • Years of Service: 2
  • Countries Visited: 1
  • Celebrities Met: 2
  • Embarrassing Moments: 1
Dancing Diggers - Richard Matthews

Richard Matthews

Favourite Machine: 220X excavator with tiltrotator

  • No of Licenses: 8
  • Years of Service: 12
  • Countries Visited: 60
  • Celebrities Met: 5
  • Embarrassing Moments: 2
Dancing Diggers - Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison

Favourite Machine: 3CX Backhoe Loader

  • No of Licenses: 7
  • Years of Service: 38
  • Countries Visited: 18
  • Celebrities Met: 7
  • Embarrassing Moments: 2

See the JCB Dancing Diggers in action

Behind the scenes of the JCB Dancing Diggers

See behind the scenes of the JCB Dancing Digger team working together on a brand-new routine for 2025.

JCB Dancing Diggers: Behind the Moves

Ben O’Hara, Creative Director, gives a behind the scenes look at three new Dancing Digger moves for this year’s routine.

The history of JCB Dancing Diggers

JCB’s iconic Dancing Digger routine began in 1977 and is still performing around the world to this day.