# dancevideo

created: 2022-04-27 09:09:28.214523+00
last_modified: 2022-04-30 09:57:26.227849+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: da3y6mgwhCQ
comment:
  RSCDS Toronto's Volunteer Appreciation Dance, 2017.  One very small mis-step, quickly corrected right at the end of the dance


created: 2022-05-02 10:19:05.17652+00
last_modified: 2022-05-07 08:20:50.712862+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: ipJwy4KGIak
comment:
  Katharine Barber Country Dancers, Kirkcudbright Scottish Night, 2018.  Danced in a 5-couple set, with modification to permit the dancing couple to dance to the foot.  On bars 9-16 the dancers take nearer hands, whereas the instructions have lead back up.


created: 2022-05-08 21:05:07.933754+00
last_modified: 2022-05-08 22:35:57.453084+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: E90GS6fXmRo
comment:
  Danced in San Francisco April 2022.Start Your Engines was devised in 2012 by Ellen Ternes of Frederick, Maryland, commemorating the life and career of world-famous Scottish race-car driver Dario Franchitti.  It is published in a 2015 book named StrathsBabes which includes dances of hers and fellow deviser Pam Stephens, the latter whose Memories of Mary Ann (S32) was published by the RSCDS in its 2013 Book 47.  The SCDDB lists eleven dances by her, the majority in the aforementioned publication.
   
  Dario Franchitti was born in 1973 in Bathgate, West Lothian, (today somewhat an Edinburgh outer suburb, pop. 23,600, just a twenty-mile drive to the west from its city center).  He is a former race-car driver and now a motor-sports commentator, four-time IndyCar Series champion (2007-2011 except 2008), three-time Indianapolis 500 winner, and the 2008 winner of the "24 Hours of Daytona."  He was married to American actress Ashley Judd from 2001 to 2013 and now married to Englishwoman Eleanor Robb, and they have two young daughters born in 2015 and 2019.  Dario Franchitti may now use the suffix MBE with his name having been named a Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth among her Birthday Honours of 2014....

  In this performance only 1st couple turn RH in bars 21-24 though the instructions suggest all three couples should turn.
   


created: 2022-05-08 13:13:30.039507+00
last_modified: 2022-05-08 22:41:56.668023+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: EQYrAUqQTfM
comment:
  Members of the Waltham Scottish Country Dance Group dancing at the 40th ASCDS Dance Festival in Retford, 07 May 2022.


created: 2022-05-08 22:48:40.699034+00
last_modified: 2022-05-08 22:54:39.223249+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: puBnWa2EnLY
comment:
  One person (a relative beginner) makes a mistake in the fourth repetition of the dance during the Rights and Lefts, but no-one panics and the dance just flows on - brilliant! 


created: 2022-05-11 08:35:25.903564+00
last_modified: 2022-05-11 22:26:35.414241+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: ISkJSTQq0HQ
comment:
  Danced once through. Note that the music used in this video (being music for the dance, The Quaich, played by  Hanneke  Kassel and Dave Wiesler) is not the suggested music.


created: 2022-05-11 18:47:12.486477+00
last_modified: 2022-05-24 21:40:38.788954+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: c8ikdnt_e1k
comment:
  Potters Pairs Weekend in Oberlethe 2022. Twice through, just once each couple so two couples are dancing to the bottom at the start instead of just one.


created: 2022-05-10 18:58:56.47385+00
last_modified: 2022-05-11 22:16:32.60191+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: LI3Iku0B62M
comment:
  Budapest Scottish Dance Club
  Caledonian Pub, Burns Night, Budapest, Jan 26, 2014
  Live music: Greenfields band


created: 2022-05-13 14:32:40.107173+00
last_modified: 2022-05-15 08:41:35.718251+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: FPuQiMBz91A
comment:
  RSCDS Edinburgh Branch Demonstration Team, Dancing Forth, 2009.  Two sets back-to-back.  Once through (with the end of the allemande adapted to lead into the next dance in the demonstration).

  Dancing is Demonstration quality, however video downgraded, since in bars 17-24 the dancers pass right shoulder in the middle, while the instructions have left shoulder.


created: 2022-05-15 12:19:06.602555+00
last_modified: 2022-05-15 17:48:34.546768+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 24nV-BONEV8
comment:
  RSCDS Edinburgh Branch Demonstration Team, Dancing Forth, 2011.  Modified lead-in to the dance and adaptions for 3-couple set.  Two sets back-to-back and the sets swirl around to position the sets across rather than length-wise prior to the next dance in the set.


created: 2022-03-25 18:42:46.739532+00
last_modified: 2022-05-15 18:37:04.21998+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: Cjk94RQyk2o
comment:
  Kathy's Fascinator is a Scottish Country Dance devised by Lydia Hedge to celebrate Kathy Warren's love of dance and friendship. It's a jig and is danced here by some of Kathy's friends in the RSCDS Nova Scotia branch in Halifax. The wonderful music is by Muriel Johnstone. The tunes are called "Kathy's Fascinator" and "The Halifax Treasure".


created: 2022-05-15 18:30:40.451913+00
last_modified: 2022-05-15 23:07:48.776185+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 9bFfMBVnKm4
comment:
  Sharon’s Strathspey is a Scottish Country Dance devised by John Drewry for Sharon Brannon. It was first published in New Dances by John Drewry 2005, and reprinted in Spark O’ Water, Dances of Nova Scotia in 2017. The tunes by Muriel Johnstone are Mira River; Eric’s Return to Tine; The Iceberg; Anne Carter’s Fancy. The dance was performed by the Thistle Scottish Country Dancers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May 2022.


created: 2022-05-17 13:05:43.774161+00
last_modified: 2022-05-17 15:57:22.077419+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: -iaWUrGDIHg
comment:
  15th Annual Bluebonnet Ball, San Antonio, Texas, 2012.  The music is fast and the dancers mostly keep up.  Sometime dancers take right hand in right hand, when the instructions have nearer hands.  Good elevated camera position.  Last dance on the programme.


created: 2022-05-16 08:39:54.560165+00
last_modified: 2022-05-18 22:36:04.098481+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: FuxJF3UV4bY
comment:
  RSCDS Belfast, 2016.  Camera in a good elevated position.  Clothing worn by dancers makes for easy identification of the couples.


created: 2022-05-17 15:46:54.757441+00
last_modified: 2022-05-18 22:41:17.711911+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: JoLIQMCBeYc
comment:
  Red Thistle Dancers, Pleasanton Highland games, 2018.  Dancing is demonstration quality, video is downgrade as danced twice through in a 3-couple set, with the ending, first time through, modified to cater for the 3-couple set.


created: 2022-05-19 12:55:30.631532+00
last_modified: 2022-05-19 22:48:06.39255+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 2tQRZ7Ca0j8
comment:
  Spice It Up is a Scottish Country Dance devised by Merrill Heubach. It was first published in Eight by 32, and reprinted in Spark O’ Water, Dances of Nova Scotia in 2017. The music is by Muriel Johnstone and Keith Smith. The tunes are The Nova Scotia; Anselm Lingnau; The Three Bernadettes. The dance was performed by the Thistle Scottish Country Dancers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May 2022.


created: 2022-05-13 15:58:28.640904+00
last_modified: 2023-01-21 13:14:38.955948+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: OCwGVlRB7O4
comment:
  Russia, 2018.  Dancing with flourish.  Minor confusion near the end corrected.

  Was Good, now unavailable.


created: 2022-05-23 01:12:36.146225+00
last_modified: 2022-05-23 07:48:39.879952+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: lSafdf-9tkM
comment:
  Northern Virginia Branch Snowdrop Dance, April 2, 2022
  Musicians:  Terpsichore - Elke Baker, fiddle and Liz Donaldson, piano
  Tunes: 
  Panmure Gardens by Marian Anderson
  Peter Barnes' Trip to Skye by Barbara McOwen
  Calum's Road by Donald Shaw


created: 2013-09-25 08:50:46.291489+00
last_modified: 2022-05-23 17:56:55.12075+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: 3bXI78THD3I
comment:
  St. Andrew's Day Ceilidh, Budapest, 2012;
  Performed by the Budapest Scottish Dance Club

  First few bars missing. Four times through.

  Now removed or private, was DemQuality.


created: 2022-05-24 12:50:38.715986+00
last_modified: 2022-05-24 17:57:56.877977+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: vk7rPZ9v--Y
comment:
  Budapest Scottish Dance Club, St Andrew's Day Ceilidh, 2014.  The men progress by dancing right hand 3/4 to face a new lady, which is not in the original instructions.


created: 2022-05-25 13:32:15.936958+00
last_modified: 2022-05-25 17:22:29.215125+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: cfaf4jvYifc
comment:
  Bill and Rajeev’s Wedding Jig is a Scottish Country Dance devised by Suzanne Lajoie. It was published in Spark O’ Water, Dances of Nova Scotia in 2017. The tunes are The Island of Mull; Dougal Campbell Esq. of Ballinby’s Jig; Dr. James Hamilton’s Reel. The dance was performed by the Thistle Scottish Country Dancers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May 2022.


created: 2022-05-25 13:31:12.100517+00
last_modified: 2022-05-25 17:25:59.686801+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 5fgBhgK3k9g
comment:
  The Rossington Strathspey is a Scottish Country Dance devised by Bill Libby in honour of Mrs. Ethel Mary Moss. The tune, composed by James C. Aulenbach, also bears her name. The dance was first published in Island Games, then reprinted in Spark O’ Water, Dances of Nova Scotia in 2017. It was performed by the Thistle Scottish Country Dancers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May 2022.


created: 2022-05-28 09:39:07.20359+00
last_modified: 2022-05-28 09:50:39.540627+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: ZVmx3qNLulg
comment:
  Airyhall Dancers, Newcastle RSCDS Festival, 2014.  Once through as part of a longer demo. There seems to be a small video glitch in the first few bars.


created: 2022-05-20 21:30:15.367466+00
last_modified: 2022-05-21 07:45:59.856888+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 3HHXF02_QaA
credit: Leicester RSCDS at the ASCDS Festival, 2022
comment:
  Twice through as the first part of a longer display with a slight adaptation to end in a longwise set.


created: 2022-05-20 21:41:08.921123+00
last_modified: 2022-05-20 21:47:04.617519+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: LevT8F2TXpM
credit: Stonnington Scottish Country Dancers, Melbourne, Australia 2022
comment:
  Danced five times, then from 3:00 once again with subtitle instructions. The youtube video comments give the full instructions.


created: 2022-05-23 01:12:15.540681+00
last_modified: 2024-03-05 17:27:50.876672+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: Z9UjTiI1ikk
credit: Northern Virginia Branch, 2022.
comment:
  2 repetitions
  Northern Virginia Branch Snowdrop Dance, April 2, 2022
  Musicians:  Terpsichore - Elke Baker, fiddle and Liz Donaldson, piano
  Ellie's Jig by Murray Shoolbraid
  Miss Ann Monro by Robert Mackintosh
  All the Rage by Larry Unger (a small bit at the end of the video)


created: 2022-05-28 10:12:16.345432+00
last_modified: 2022-05-31 17:50:25.430045+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: m8YUhSJYyGs
comment:
  South American Piping Association Ceilidh, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018.  Tight shot.  Bystanders momentarily pass the camera.


created: 2022-05-29 10:08:02.210139+00
last_modified: 2022-05-31 17:48:00.182403+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: uo7m_A_ZsDw
comment:
  Johnsonville SCD Club's final night for the year, 2017.   Last dance on the programme. This clips starts with the dancing, the video starts with a recap.


created: 2022-05-31 10:58:33.157989+00
last_modified: 2022-05-31 17:55:30.826252+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: _BCT10pD9JA
comment:
  Bluebonnet Scottish Country Dancers, San Antonio, Texas, 2013. Danced in a 3-couple set.  On bars 17-24, some couples dance down nearer hands and turn both hands which is not in the dancing instructions


created: 2022-05-31 11:33:42.528745+00
last_modified: 2022-05-31 18:14:22.851646+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: bV50ll1bXBs
comment:
  Toronto RSCDS Demo Pool, Christmas Market, Toronto's Distillery District, 2015.  Danced once each couple.


created: 2022-06-01 14:43:44.926116+00
last_modified: 2022-06-03 09:16:13.195362+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: EKWiM8z9D6A
comment:
  RSCDS Toronto's Beginners' Night, March 2017.  There's a brief video glitch a little before the 3 minute mark. 


created: 2022-06-07 18:39:07.270592+00
last_modified: 2022-06-07 18:59:29.707104+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: kKLyHN0aFdQ
comment:
  Dancers of the Munich Scottish Association, 2022. The deviser and dedicatee start as 1st couple and the music is played by the composer of the original tune.
  (Camera angle very close to the set, consequently only part of the set is visible/dancers are "beheaded" at numerous times during the video.)


created: 2022-06-08 15:01:45.055296+00
last_modified: 2022-06-12 17:44:53.899946+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: VWsxd-FFr2Q
comment:
  RSCDS Summer School in St. Andrews, week 4, 2018.  Once through, with modified beginning and end :- during the first 8 bars, the other dancers swirl into place; the last four bars are modified to lead into the next dance.

  The dancing is excellent but given the modifications and the availability of other good videos its probably best to block this one.


created: 2022-06-08 07:17:44.663945+00
last_modified: 2022-06-12 17:46:53.329183+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: GCIDX_yOYUI
comment:
  Colchester Scottish Dance And Ceilidh Club, 2015.  Danced as a single 2-couple set with modifications :-  Circle and back, dancers add a twirl.  Both couples dance out and back (and with nearer hands joined, not right hands).


created: 2022-06-09 13:43:44.298252+00
last_modified: 2022-06-12 17:50:47.071243+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: -rfC-msB-04
comment:
  Scottish Party At The Festival "The Breath Of Siberia", Tomsk, Russia, 2017.  At the end of the first 8 bars the 3s make a full RH turn, rather than a half turn.  The 3M becomes a lady for the interlocking reels.  Swapping back occurs with the RH turn at the end of bar 16. The music is on the slow side.


created: 2022-06-08 11:15:14.717898+00
last_modified: 2022-06-12 17:56:02.551913+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: VWsxd-FFr2Q
comment:
  RSCDS Summer School in St. Andrews, week 4, 2018.  Danced twice in a 3-couple set.  Second time through ( bars 21-24 ), supporting couples chase halfway around the set.


created: 2022-06-08 15:19:59.982636+00
last_modified: 2022-06-12 17:59:55.191197+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: VWsxd-FFr2Q
comment:
  RSCDS Summer School in St. Andrews, week 4, 2018.  Dancing is excellent, but video is downgraded due to departure from the original instructions.  Five-couple version, with 1s and 3s dancing :- Right hands across in the centre and at the ends; modified corners pass & turn; Double Triangles at both ends; big circle.  On the second time through – special ending.


created: 2022-06-09 15:05:04.292326+00
last_modified: 2023-01-21 12:02:20.640956+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: dgZcPnEslrI
comment:
  This video has two dances.  The first is the strathspey "Groundhog Day".  The second dance was subsequently withdrawn.


created: 2022-06-13 16:32:58.059883+00
last_modified: 2022-06-13 19:54:02.38334+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: SdSd7eQkLWo
comment:
  RSCDS Gleneagles Scottish Country Dance Club, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2020.  Alternate views: elevated camera position and level views.


created: 2022-06-13 13:44:47.610139+00
last_modified: 2022-06-13 20:10:24.1459+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: uGXt8nh-1qg
comment:
  Thistle Scottish Country Dancers, 2012.  Danced as a 4-couple dance (instead of 3-couples in a 4-couple set). Bars 25-40 are danced with 3rd and 4th couples rather than 2nd and 3rd couples.


created: 2022-06-21 16:10:40.334448+00
last_modified: 2022-06-21 18:32:37.403508+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: e6Mlpdk8J5U
comment:
  Scottish Dance Group ART, Feira Da Luz, Carnide, Lisbon, 2015.  Danced from 2nd place and then again from 1st place.


created: 2021-01-12 18:52:45.477509+00
last_modified: 2022-06-19 10:25:16.441806+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: o3dR4QF0hQQ
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh Dancing Forth 2009
comment:
  Twice through. Good view from above.

  Original video no longer available. Parts 1-3 of the Dancing Forth 2009 set were replaced by new youtube videos but seemingly not this one.


created: 2022-06-13 19:44:36.555082+00
last_modified: 2022-06-13 20:13:55.042071+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: UHgn1LYNovA
credit: Gleneagles SCD Club, 2022 Bridge Festival (West Vancouver)
comment:
  Here done once and to the bottom, also with all four couples taking part in the setting and crossing at the start.


created: 2022-06-13 20:28:44.030474+00
last_modified: 2022-06-14 22:21:28.734854+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: Z9Vr563H-vU
credit: Youth Demonstration team, RSCDS AGM 2018
comment:
  Twice through in two back to back sets as part of a longer display (viewed from afar). The last 8 bars are adapted to lead into the next dance.


created: 2022-06-14 22:47:55.28761+00
last_modified: 2024-01-14 13:00:29.25908+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: EtZIbIaGyz0
credit: Russian Spring School, 2022
comment:
  Beautifully danced - with an inadvertent partner change at the end of the reels the 3rd time through which is neatly corrected during the 4th repeat, the whole team having smoothly carried on in between.


created: 2022-06-14 22:54:48.710239+00
last_modified: 2022-06-16 00:51:56.460156+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: EtZIbIaGyz0
credit: Russian Spring School, 2022
comment:
  Four times through. After their second time, the first 1st couple dance the first few bars again to end in 4th place.


created: 2022-06-14 23:42:23.656292+00
last_modified: 2022-06-16 18:26:24.479681+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: fVy3lFnh7X4
credit: Russian Summer School, 2022
comment:
  Once through as the first part of a longer display with the last 4 bars adapted to end in a square set for the next dance.


created: 2022-06-14 23:54:44.038673+00
last_modified: 2022-06-16 18:27:24.560983+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: fVy3lFnh7X4
credit: Russian Summer School, 2022
comment:
  Once through as part of a longer display. The last 4 bars are adapted to end in a longwise set for the next dance (half figures of 8 instead of turning partner RH).


created: 2022-06-19 15:24:41.682408+00
last_modified: 2022-06-19 18:08:52.194895+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 5kgqp2zMOeQ
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh, Strictly Scottish 1994
comment:
  This clip shows twice through the standard version. In the full video this is preceded (from 57:07) by a slightly modified version where each couple dances on in turn for the fugal part.


created: 2022-06-23 13:37:49.776843+00
last_modified: 2022-06-23 19:18:28.859277+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: dcHVeG2SWJI
comment:
  RSCDS Toronto Family Ceilidh, 2015.  Dancing is demonstration quality, only rated as good as the dance has been adapted for a 3-couple set.  The last 4-bars modified to turn right and cast.


created: 2022-06-25 13:07:36.753155+00
last_modified: 2022-06-26 09:02:12.07069+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: OkBka50_2e0
comment:
  RSCDS Stirling, 2018.  On-screen and spoken dancing instructions.  Slow motion segment during first time through.


created: 2022-06-26 15:01:54.498064+00
last_modified: 2022-06-27 08:52:55.63328+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: u6UOmcHEpyg
comment:
  1st woman forgets how to dance under her partner's arm to change sides and some corners are a little hesitant in the corner pass and twirl.


created: 2022-07-04 14:55:20.575968+00
last_modified: 2022-07-05 07:51:51.757029+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 3SS-ihpLqoI
comment:
  RSCDS Hamilton and Clydesdale - Spring Dance, 2017.  One minor mistake noted, in one case ( bars 17-24 ), 1M goes down instead of up, dancing with the 4s instead of the 2s.  The music is good, the camera position is elevated and the dancers are easily identifiable. 


created: 2022-07-09 09:59:30.268619+00
last_modified: 2022-07-09 09:59:49.742581+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: vev82QTbxHw
comment:
  Devised specifically for the 1987 RSCDS Toronto Gala Day. Danced by Emmerson's University of Western Ontario Scottish country dancers.


created: 2022-07-08 13:23:53.930253+00
last_modified: 2022-07-09 10:03:56.836131+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: _6UOQeRyDSY
comment:
  Katharine Barber And Her Country Dancers, Harbour Square, Kirkcudbright, 2016.  Danced in two 3-couple sets.  Initially, the camera is in long shot, then the camera zooms in on one set for a while before switching to the other, then the camera settles on a long shot containing both sets.


created: 2021-01-08 22:56:56.082582+00
last_modified: 2022-07-04 08:32:32.817858+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: wUMmpgWYY7E
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh Dancing Forth 2009
comment:
  Three times as the last part of a longer demo. There are a few minor adaptations for demonstration purposes. The 1st repeat ends with a slow RH cross instead of full RH turns to switch the top and bottom of the set, the 2nd repeat has some diagonal turns, the last repeat ends facing the audience. Clear view from above.

  As is traditional in Edinburgh, the two hand turns are here done with skip change rather than pas de basque.


created: 2022-06-23 19:12:06.238694+00
last_modified: 2022-06-23 22:36:37.889588+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: DeJ2nL5czy0
credit: Leeds, 2022
comment:
  Once through.

  This video follows the original version of the dance, before Rod changed the way the third and fourth couples started the double figure of eight.   The change was made to allow third couple to enter the Rose Progression more easily.


created: 2022-07-08 12:54:03.134729+00
last_modified: 2022-07-09 10:03:37.755197+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: D11b8uBB_dY
comment:
  Ochil Scottish Country Dancers, St Ninian's Church Hall, Stirling, Scotland, 2017.  On-screen and spoken dancing instructions.  Does not completely conform to the instructions, which have the 1s on the second time through casting to 4th place, giving a neater ending.


created: 2022-07-16 01:19:48.393308+00
last_modified: 2022-07-16 08:45:00.813041+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: NTPn6GQMg54
comment:
  One of the dancers goes wrong on time 1.42. but corrects it elegantly.  The bright windows in the background and the low camera position make it difficult to follow the dancers clearly.  Eric


created: 2022-07-16 20:20:03.933583+00
last_modified: 2022-07-16 22:35:41.76077+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: Kgc2Y4bUIkA
comment:
  Scottish Party At The Festival "The Breath Of Siberia", Tomsk, Russia, 2017.  Animated dancing.  At one point a dancer sitting out, suddenly races across and joins in the reel at the top.


created: 2022-07-17 15:18:34.285243+00
last_modified: 2022-07-17 15:21:28.795603+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: tzJ-cFkz-M4
comment:
  Julie Young Dancers, Aberdeen Festival, 2018.  The camera position is rather low and the view is partially obscured by spectators.  The lighting is good and the spectators are in the dark so present minimal distraction.


created: 2022-07-18 10:38:46.545749+00
last_modified: 2022-07-18 14:49:04.329141+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: GBcXl1a5FUA
comment:
  RSCDS Stirling Branch, Drummond Castle, Perthshire, Scotland, 2006.  On-screen and spoken dancing instructions.


created: 2022-07-13 13:00:42.193089+00
last_modified: 2023-09-12 08:04:24.874597+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: cU7eosHzkMU
credit: Spring Dance, Genève, 2019.
comment:
  Dedicated to Vanessa de Schoene who has been faithfully caring for the Scottish Country Dance group in Lausanne almost since time immemorial.


created: 2022-07-24 15:11:15.405345+00
last_modified: 2022-07-25 17:01:09.832959+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: LdtlT3WPRAc
comment:
  RSCDS Stirling, Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling, Scotland, RSCDS Archive, 1999. Starts and ends with a dance on and off.


created: 2022-07-24 15:24:53.413381+00
last_modified: 2022-07-25 17:06:27.124616+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: AiQ9xUBJXYA
comment:
  Upper Hutt Scottish Country Dance Club Annual Tea Dance, 2014.  This clip skips over the first repeat which should Just be regarded as the practice, reels ( bars 9-16 ), there are some mistakes.  After that, the dancers settle down.


created: 2022-07-25 15:54:13.811373+00
last_modified: 2022-07-25 17:10:50.79375+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: alMjKTiz6YQ
comment:
  Budapest Scottish Dance Club, St Andrew's Day Ceilidh Demonstration Dance, Scottish Mission Church, 2019. Excellent dancing but not to the original music.


created: 2022-07-27 17:02:48.147386+00
last_modified: 2022-07-27 21:16:07.144022+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: ydR37w4T3rc
comment:
  Oxford University Scottish Dance Society, BBC Country File Live, Blenheim Palace, 2017.  This clip is once through.


created: 2020-03-28 19:29:43.386551+00
last_modified: 2022-08-12 17:58:47.790681+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 2Ne1KM3vajg
comment:
  Twice through, as the final part of a longer demonstration, in four sets arranged in a cross shape. Dem quality dancing, but in the last 2 bars of the poussette the instructions have turn RH while the dancers here set to partners. The 2nd repeat, in a cross shape, has other variations (switching sets in the reels) to finish the demo.


created: 2022-08-01 21:40:36.427461+00
last_modified: 2022-08-05 11:09:15.825738+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: zhRfKQFUf5k
credit: Port Adelaide Caledonian Society: Birthday Celebration 2011
comment:
  The first part of a longer demonstration. Only visible on youtube.

  Although the dancing is good, this is a cut down version of the dance omitting bars 17-48 and using RH in bars 49-64.


created: 2018-12-11 19:12:52.241109+00
last_modified: 2023-11-08 00:53:49.90858+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 6AK4dZX2y9I
credit: Demo in Tallinn, Estonia, 2018.
comment:
  The video starts part way through the first repeat (around bar 17 of 48). The second (complete) repeat starts at 1:15. Top and bottom are to the left & right, side couple is nearest the camera.


created: 2012-12-17 14:17:57.134001+00
last_modified: 2024-01-15 15:04:43.858964+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: jIOHpGSwvcw
credit: Houston RSCDS, 2011.
comment:
  Houston RSCDS 2011. Good, though on the 1st time, one of the 2nd corners crosses rather than turns (and recovers after the circle).


created: 2022-08-24 16:26:09.881504+00
last_modified: 2022-08-25 06:41:15.637418+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: hgL1JR8n93M
comment:
  From the Blue Ridge Scottish Dance School July 2022
  live music by Mara Shea, Liz Donaldson, Terry Traub


created: 2022-09-08 09:28:36.010049+00
last_modified: 2022-09-08 09:31:39.029399+00
quality: C
source: V
external: 747135576
comment:
  Johnsonville/Capital City Combined Annual Dance 2022
  Music by Strings Attached
  Video by Aline Homes
  Due to a camera problem, last three repeats only


created: 2013-02-18 22:31:49.585554+00
last_modified: 2022-09-10 19:37:59.677428+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: H-P9E56PHuc
comment:
  Edinburgh RSCDS mens team at the 2013 Newcastle Festival.
  Here 1st couple dance the variation used in some areas and end back on own sides at the end of bar 8.


created: 2013-08-18 10:47:49.618454+00
last_modified: 2022-09-10 19:38:48.323686+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: EZbihVCTTR4
comment:
  Newcastle 2013, Edinburgh Men's team. View from the side.
  Here 1st couple dance the variation used in some areas and end back on own sides at the end of bar 8.


created: 2014-02-18 04:21:05.343092+00
last_modified: 2022-09-10 19:40:24.470102+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: vvSXnxiX-oc
comment:
  Edinburgh RSCDS mens team at the 2014 Newcastle Festival.
  Here 1st couple dance the variation used in some areas and end back on own sides at the end of bar 8.


created: 2022-09-17 23:40:57.862203+00
last_modified: 2022-09-18 07:21:25.149207+00
quality: D
source: V
external: 750632653
comment:
  Johnsonville/Capital City Combined Annual Dance 2022.  
  Music by Strings Attached. Recording by Aline Homes.  
  The video starts around bar 17.


created: 2022-09-05 11:32:20.245871+00
last_modified: 2022-09-05 12:01:05.584472+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: D3t06FpVj-k
credit: Aurora at their 2018 festival
comment:
  Twice through as part of a longer demonstration, here adapted for a 6 couple set instead of the expected 4 couple set. The final allemande is also changed to lead into the next dance in the display.


created: 2022-09-19 19:37:10.025688+00
last_modified: 2022-09-19 20:18:09.328802+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 8G5of05WM08
credit: Mickel Scottish Country Dancing Club, 2022
comment:
  The instructions suggest 1st couple should turn right hand between the two reels but all possibilities are explored here.


created: 2022-10-18 20:53:11.199895+00
last_modified: 2022-10-19 13:59:36.357623+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: zkmEMGGG6zc
comment:
  Jacqui's Lib. 4x32J by Morton Jay, danced at Southern Fling, Sydney Oct 2022, music by The Black Bear Duo.


created: 2022-10-21 13:20:23.64925+00
last_modified: 2022-10-24 08:37:43.765432+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 0ew1ynB-PHY
comment:
  Delaware Valley Branch RSCDS Friday class in Moylan PA, USA. Music by Mara Shea and Dave Wiesler, Album Heather Hills 909 - SCDDB

  Very good dancing. The instructions for bars 25-32 include a turn with both hands between dancing out each side and casting round. That is omitted here.


created: 2022-10-27 21:26:21.475741+00
last_modified: 2022-10-28 08:08:12.706957+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: IrFCQOK1ooU
comment:
  Danced at a party to celebrate the birthday of the deviser, Ruth Beattie (1st Woman).   1st couple dance twice through but the other three couples just dance once each and the progression was changed.  There was little space but great fun at a very happy event.


created: 2022-09-28 00:39:42.102446+00
last_modified: 2022-09-28 00:41:36.275124+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: r0lWaMKS83k
credit: SCD group Hong Kong, 2022
comment:
  Nicely danced (with a few hesitations) though with a couple of variations from the original instructions. In bars 5-8 the dancers here do two left hands across (at each end) rather than one in the middle. And in the final mirror set and links, the central two couples dance through the middle rather than casting to the ends. The first variation works well but the second looks slightly more awkward than was intended.


created: 2022-09-28 00:51:35.956221+00
last_modified: 2022-09-28 01:04:42.411043+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: VXSf9MgChKE
credit: SCD group Hong Kong, 2014
comment:
  The first part of a longer demonstration medley with the final circle changed to lead into the next dance in the display. The clip starts with the dancing. The whole video has a longer introduction about the group.


created: 2022-09-28 01:00:21.853904+00
last_modified: 2022-09-28 01:06:01.032841+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: VXSf9MgChKE
credit: SCD group Hong Kong, 2014
comment:
  The second part of a lovely demonstration - though the slow crossing RH and back at the start of the reel section are here replaced by quicker turns, perhaps to make a livelier display.


created: 2022-10-24 22:34:39.651312+00
last_modified: 2022-10-24 22:35:16.937047+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: uY9UvnyrH2U
credit: London Gay Gordons & Friends, 2022
comment:
  There are some hesitations and missed shoulder passes here and there but generally the choreography of the weasel reels is correct.


created: 2022-02-12 09:54:41.097078+00
last_modified: 2022-10-31 23:31:33.962968+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: 9t8ahQ2DKCk
comment:
  Russia, 2018.  Dancing is good.  The camera position is between two sets making it more difficult to follow the formations.

  No longer available.


created: 2022-11-02 00:05:29.30537+00
last_modified: 2022-11-02 07:09:04.14683+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: 6GptpuyX2nI
comment:
  The Mystic Scottish Country Dancers on Nauset Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, December 2020.
  Danced one time through. The progression is not accurate. (wind noise in the audio)


created: 2022-11-20 23:30:28.499207+00
last_modified: 2022-11-21 00:04:00.307776+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: FEjbmRYAFio
comment:
  Deviser says: "Only minor glitches, hardly visible. Deviser dances as fourth man. Video shows first repeat, then fades out."


created: 2022-11-21 10:00:41.882141+00
last_modified: 2022-11-21 10:40:27.374451+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: M7Yt6nidzPo
comment:
  Deviser says: "Only minor glitches during first repeat during the 'Mystic Knot' central figure - strictly one step in, change partner and then one step out to the sides makes the figure work in perfection. Deviser dances as first man."


created: 2022-11-21 18:12:20.167786+00
last_modified: 2022-11-21 20:31:58.434826+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 3AGd7LaEIR8
comment:
  Deviser says: "Only minor glitches at some twirls and occasional hesitations during the 'Mixer Chain'. Deviser dances as fifth man in the center." 


created: 2022-11-21 18:27:15.153331+00
last_modified: 2022-11-21 20:32:11.849675+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: q1P241-HM_g
comment:
  Deviser says: "Two quite perfect repeats before the video fades out. Dance is shown in an alternative 3 couple setup, but originally meant to be danced in a 4 couple set, eight times through. Deviser dances as first man."


created: 2012-12-17 14:18:04.804369+00
last_modified: 2022-11-24 19:15:55.160594+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: Ql15qg4egtQ
comment:
  Very well danced - with lots of exuberant variations, eg couples dancing poussettes instead of allemande, etc.


created: 2022-11-27 13:33:19.999838+00
last_modified: 2022-11-27 19:01:17.118001+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: PxMbhzGICPI
comment:
  RSCDS Paris, 2022.

  To finish the Reel of 3 in second place, 1c makes a loop (Rsh back for 1st man as in the video but a big loop Lsh back for 1st woman), before starting dancing the figure of love.


created: 2022-11-17 10:54:48.767048+00
last_modified: 2022-11-17 11:03:27.362369+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: M32Tyoefq9M
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh, Halloween 2022
comment:
  Excellent dancing but this 4 couple dance is here adapted slightly for 6 couples so not quite the original choreography. Its generally best to watch the top four couples.


created: 2022-11-23 23:37:15.429232+00
last_modified: 2022-11-23 23:43:51.278566+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: G3lbwyF91AA
credit: Crieff Hydro Weekend Demonstration
comment:
  Once through with slight adaptation at the end to lead into the next dance in the display. The camera veers off to show the audience for part of the dance. So not ideal for learning the dance.


created: 2014-05-05 19:20:38.05394+00
last_modified: 2022-12-01 17:50:36.254802+00
quality: Z
source: V
external: 89897918
comment:
  Click on the link to play this video on VIMEO: the automatic link is disabled.

  Educational video to help everyone to take the floor and participate in the commonwealth ceilidh on the 21st June 2014

  Previously classed as Reasonable, now unavailable on Vimeo.


created: 2022-12-09 15:03:10.229089+00
last_modified: 2022-12-09 15:38:47.257238+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: zoIFwWDv_5M
comment:
  Danced at the Atholl SCD Club, Edinburgh, April 2022, in a five-couple set (though the dance is intended for a four couple set). The dance devisor is dancing first lady.


created: 2022-12-12 09:24:16.593737+00
last_modified: 2022-12-12 11:26:19.332146+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: SF2GV92EPZA
comment:
  The challenge comes from the frequent changing of feet and is where most mistakes occured.
  The Rechberg dancers learnt both the Waltz Hold Poussette and Dances on the morning of the video.

  Here danced, 3 times, in the original 24 bar version.


created: 2013-12-08 16:22:09.822391+00
last_modified: 2022-12-16 18:13:53.430144+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: 0eUPvjo3sqs
comment:
  Budapest, Scottish Dance House for Beginners, 2013. XII.

  Instead of returning to 2nd place, the dancing couples stops in 3pl on bar 24


created: 2022-12-12 09:30:16.360547+00
last_modified: 2022-12-12 11:43:11.849295+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: oMot8bXjfmg
comment:
  The challenge comes from the frequent changing of feet and is where most mistakes occured.
  The Rechberg dancers learnt both the Waltz Hold Poussette and Dances on the morning of the video. 
  PDB is used and not SCS.

  Here danced, 3 times, in the default 24 bar version.


created: 2022-12-12 09:28:17.80708+00
last_modified: 2022-12-12 11:45:52.608189+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: rUreNZcm5cs
comment:
  The challenge comes from the frequent changing of feet and is where most mistakes occured.
  The Rechberg dancers learnt both the Waltz Hold Poussette and Dances on the morning of the video. 


created: 2022-12-12 12:07:20.447699+00
last_modified: 2022-12-13 10:25:22.340186+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 5nhaE4DmQGM
comment:
  Excellent dancing but to sung music with an extra two bars at the end of each repeat (the end couples make additional turns while the central couple set - neither of which is part of the original instructions).


created: 2022-12-12 11:56:25.945761+00
last_modified: 2022-12-13 10:25:44.842735+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 5nhaE4DmQGM
comment:
  Excellent dancing but here the corners are setting all the time when not otherwise involved which is not part of the original instructions.


created: 2020-10-09 08:58:54.99876+00
last_modified: 2022-12-19 22:49:19.424643+00
quality: C
source: V
external: 464658893
comment:
  Tawa SCD Club Annual dance 03 October 2020. Recorded by Aline Homes. Music by Aileen Logie, Hilary Ferral, and Jason Morris.


created: 2020-11-07 05:33:10.79618+00
last_modified: 2022-12-19 22:50:47.997601+00
quality: C
source: V
external: 476537986
comment:
  Tawa SCD Club Annual Dance 03 October 2020 (near Wellington, NZ). Music by Aileen Logie, Hilary Ferral, and Jason Morris.


created: 2022-12-21 08:31:13.721652+00
last_modified: 2022-12-21 15:13:56.52074+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: d4qWXXJl0x8
comment:
  Birthday party december 2022, Budapest.

  Tunes played (by Phill Jones) included:
  My Nannie O,
  Humours of Castle Comer,
  A Land for All Seasons (R Cass / R Climies),
  Mrs Nanie McKay,
  Peace and Plenty (Brian McNeil),
  Cleveland Park (Ivan Drever),


created: 2022-12-22 23:34:01.064175+00
last_modified: 2022-12-22 23:50:00.089068+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: ptwO_thTRCA
comment:
  Danced by members of the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles, and Orange County Branches in Southern California


created: 2020-09-05 09:40:39.547971+00
last_modified: 2022-12-22 17:47:21.373298+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: 6vz33dZ3X3Q
credit: "Dream Team" from "Ural Teapot" SCD festival, Russia
comment:
  This is the second dance in their display and starts from 2nd and 3rd places.

  Was Dem Quality, now blocked by youtube.


created: 2022-12-05 23:59:18.48287+00
last_modified: 2022-12-06 00:02:18.325165+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: MkD_63xFDMs
credit: Méaudre Reel, 2022
comment:
  Lively performance, generally good though with a few hesitations in the first repeat and a false start later on.


created: 2023-01-10 19:59:08.213947+00
last_modified: 2023-01-10 21:56:05.007817+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: lqgKYAyN8ng
comment:
  The dance is being danced to the original tune, written by Vincent McCourt at a dance on 12 November 2022 to celebrate 60 years of the Headington SCD class. The dance deviser, Lesley McCourt is dancing as 1st Lady in the second set.

  This clip starts with the dancing. The whole video has an introduction to the history and a recap.


created: 2023-02-05 20:55:00.84616+00
last_modified: 2023-02-07 10:23:33.532517+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: XSYdQRMCafY
comment:
  Budapest Scottish Dance Club, dance house for  beginners, 2023. 
  One time through, part of a larger video


created: 2023-01-05 19:35:50.904787+00
last_modified: 2023-01-05 19:41:06.876979+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: Px0hO8zn7GQ
credit: Méaudre Reel, 2022
comment:
  Generally clear though with some errors here and there (eg in the first tourbillon, neatly corrected in the subsequent poussette).


created: 2023-01-05 23:15:50.190055+00
last_modified: 2023-01-06 11:25:20.997176+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: Sp6ft9Uyu_g
credit: RSCDS Los Angeles, 2022
comment:
  The youtube video title is "Laich of Moray" but it actually seems to be the adaption of that dance by Mary Shoolbraid Brandon called "The Mormaer of Moray". The strathspey part is fine but there are a few mishaps in the reel section.


created: 2023-01-19 13:34:09.426343+00
last_modified: 2023-01-19 13:38:47.525966+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: dVhqrTHAKDU
comment:
  Budapest, Dance house for beginners, 14.01.2023
  mistake: 2 bars/hand instead of 1 bar/hand
  Two times through...


created: 2023-01-20 23:35:04.899509+00
last_modified: 2023-01-21 00:15:19.843763+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: vc0134ml4Vw
comment:
  Shows three variations of the dance, each once through. First the basic dance, then with a 4th couple active at the bottom, then at the top.


created: 2023-01-26 17:11:01.519654+00
last_modified: 2023-01-26 21:17:32.44382+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: OQdl-BJbKD8
comment:
  Here danced as a reel (the dance may also be done as jig or strathspey). The first 2 bars are missing.


created: 2023-01-26 15:56:21.514728+00
last_modified: 2023-01-26 21:18:38.428201+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: uPxCLlKT9fM
comment:
  Newark's Welcome, a 32 dance for three couples in a three couple set devised by Chris Ronald.  It can be danced as a reel, jig or strathspey.  Chris dances as second man in this strathspey version.


created: 2020-07-18 10:29:40.19921+00
last_modified: 2023-01-22 20:01:20.145637+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: EgZ92GeITWA
credit: Kirov Winter Social 2018
comment:
  Good dancing but the camera view is between two lines of sets with neither of them completely in view so its not always easy to follow the dance.

  Was Reasonable, now unavailable.


created: 2023-01-18 18:19:18.507946+00
last_modified: 2023-01-18 18:54:17.764384+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 65IzoIoYIRs
credit: Montreal Branch, Hogmanay 2022
comment:
  The video starts about 3 or 4 bars into the first repeat. Ckear, albeit with some brief hesitations here and there.


created: 2023-01-21 00:00:55.648524+00
last_modified: 2023-01-21 00:16:47.24759+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: IlnV1tFNVqw
credit: NZ Summer School 2022-2023
comment:
  Twice through, starting with middle couples, then all four couples. This clip starts with the dancing. The whole video also has an introduction to the dance. This explains the symbolism of passing a flag across the strait between north and south islands.


created: 2023-01-21 21:27:08.411115+00
last_modified: 2023-01-24 07:39:10.617709+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 8SSP_eSXzgM
credit: Verona Christmas 2022
comment:
  This clip shows the dance once through, to music from a pipe band. The demo continues with two repeats of Pelorus Jack, then returns to Miss Dumbreck to finish (from 1:54).


created: 2023-01-23 18:15:13.817498+00
last_modified: 2023-01-24 07:41:30.941687+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: oNM0l97qbrc
credit: RSCDS Seattle, Fort Worden, 2011
comment:
  This clip just shows the first repeat. After that the camera moves to close ups of other sets, the band, etc.


created: 2023-01-24 14:06:55.202211+00
last_modified: 2023-01-25 10:45:26.927413+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 9FogfpwYKh0
credit: Scottish Festival, Cheboksary, Russia, 2020
comment:
  This clip shows twice through (the first repeat on the video starts a few bars into the dance). The camera is close up so some dancers are out of view at times.


created: 2023-01-25 17:54:04.293205+00
last_modified: 2023-01-26 16:24:06.536613+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: GmkO5j7AbAA
credit: Glenview social group, Toronto, 2016
comment:
  The turns in bars 9-10 are here done with both hands (instead of right hands as per the original instructions).


created: 2017-06-29 21:55:02.317318+00
last_modified: 2023-02-02 17:46:09.573423+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: clj32P-mrbs
comment:
  The Berkeley CA adjudication Team led by Bruce Herbold performing Struan Robertson's Reel at the Pleasanton Highland Games 2012 Greg Wilcox, Madge Tsang, Gary Knox, Witsie MacElvey, Bex Clark, Amanda Whitehead, Paula Buell, Jane Samuelson.

  Was Reasonable, now unavailable (private on youtube).


created: 2023-02-05 21:08:50.075116+00
last_modified: 2023-02-07 10:03:21.912936+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: XSYdQRMCafY
comment:
  Budapest Scottish Dance Club, dance house for  beginners, 2023. 
  Twice through, part of a larger video
  Bar 19: 1C cast to the 3rd place (3 couple set)


created: 2023-01-31 21:52:09.410248+00
last_modified: 2023-01-31 22:21:13.947094+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: RMHUEemJfK8
credit: Budapest Scottish Dance Club, Burns Night, 2023
comment:
  Here done twice, as part of a longer demo, in three 2 couple sets which join in a triangular star for the balance in line.


created: 2023-01-31 22:06:18.554828+00
last_modified: 2023-01-31 22:15:15.218856+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: RMHUEemJfK8
credit: Budapest Scottish Dance Club, Burns Night, 2023
comment:
  Here done twice, as the last part of a longer demo. The group are doing a 32 bar version of the dance omitting the final grand chain.


created: 2023-02-01 23:25:20.554801+00
last_modified: 2023-02-01 23:33:12.671397+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 9cqi4IGypC4
credit: Budapest Scottish Dance Club, 2023
comment:
  Twice through in three 2 couple sets in different orientations as the last part of a longer demo. Here the dancers add an extra cross before and after the allemande which is done starting "down".


created: 2023-02-02 18:58:33.243118+00
last_modified: 2023-02-02 19:12:19.253117+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: R1JIqK5Ge2c
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh Strictly Scottish 1996
comment:
  This clip shows the dance just once through in two back to back 3 couple sets. The 1st place in each set (at the ends) is out of view for the first few bars. The demo continued with a variation of the dance for 4 couples.


created: 2023-02-03 13:26:31.345317+00
last_modified: 2023-02-04 10:50:41.31225+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: CEXidDat5ws
credit: Newcastle Festival 2020 Demonstrations
comment:
  This clip shows an adapted first half of the dance as part of a longer demonstation medley. It is roughly the first 48 bars but passing right shoulder and clockwise in bars 33-48 instead of left shoulder and anticlockwise (and then leads into a circle). At least it gives a flavour of the dance.


created: 2023-02-03 15:04:12.64581+00
last_modified: 2023-02-04 10:48:38.382096+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: CEXidDat5ws
credit: Newcastle Festival 2020 Demonstrations
comment:
  Twice through as the last part of a longer medley. The end of the 2nd time is adapted for the final bow.


created: 2023-02-04 10:48:20.231399+00
last_modified: 2023-02-04 10:51:37.41458+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: CEXidDat5ws
credit: Newcastle Festival 2020 Demonstrations
comment:
  Nearly once through as the first part of an excellent longer display. However the last few bars are adapted to lead into the next dance as extra couples dance in.


created: 2023-02-05 20:43:00.802137+00
last_modified: 2023-02-07 10:33:43.455016+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: XSYdQRMCafY
comment:
  Budapest Scottish Dance Club, dance house for  beginners, 2023. 
  Twice through, part of a larger video


created: 2023-02-05 20:51:46.023064+00
last_modified: 2023-02-07 10:27:07.648219+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: XSYdQRMCafY
comment:
  Budapest Scottish Dance Club, dance house for  beginners, 2023. 
  Twice through, part of a larger video


created: 2023-02-05 16:21:51.727442+00
last_modified: 2023-02-07 09:59:52.492238+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: o2UfaYpMhao
comment:
  RSCDS Country Dancers, RSCDS Archives, 2006.  Alternates between close-up and a view of the entire set.  The dance is shown twice, normally at first and walked in rhythm the second time.


created: 2015-03-30 22:54:06.820868+00
last_modified: 2023-02-14 16:14:14.930664+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 1o8ySmm6sWw
comment:
  Scottish Flowers, Hildesheim. The version in the video has been adapted for 3 couples. This clip shows the last two repeats (the video starts part way through the first one).


created: 2023-02-07 13:22:34.897228+00
last_modified: 2023-02-08 11:40:27.083746+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: a50Xrg7xlZM
credit: Chekboksary Festival of Scottish Culture, 2022
comment:
  One or two minor glitches, but impressive continuation to spontaneous clapping and singing when the recorded music suddenly fails towards the end.


created: 2023-02-07 13:45:30.738427+00
last_modified: 2023-02-08 11:39:15.236545+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: K0YQmjeU69A
credit: Cheboksary Festival of Scottish Culture, 2023
comment:
  As in many other videos, in bars 9-12 all turn right hand rather than both hands (which are mentioned in the instructions).


created: 2023-02-08 12:13:53.721131+00
last_modified: 2023-02-09 09:47:50.446617+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: wUEucMjEktA
credit: Tay Dancers, 2023
comment:
  As is commonly danced in Mairi's Wedding, the team here pass right shoulders between all the half diagonal reels, though the instructions specify left shoulder.


created: 2023-02-08 15:57:34.280562+00
last_modified: 2023-12-09 16:43:30.075111+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: DlWq8Q07rU8
credit: Lyon mixed team, Newcastle Festival, 2014
comment:
  Note that on bars 17–20, the dancers cross right hand then left hand. This should be left hand then right hand.


created: 2023-02-08 23:46:07.676067+00
last_modified: 2023-02-09 09:52:50.388938+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: otTyo4yxsQg
credit: Berkeley RSCDS, Pleasanton Games, 2013
comment:
  Twice through, once each couple in a 3 couple set. Very good dancing but after turning corners 1st couple consistently do their half figure of 8 found the same couple rather than at the other end.


created: 2023-02-12 21:44:42.457598+00
last_modified: 2023-02-13 10:16:34.411255+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: v4FKQVq6r3g
credit: Montreal, 2017
comment:
  This clip shows last two repeats. Here danced as a strathspey as originally intended (it may also be danced as a jig).


created: 2023-02-15 16:57:27.967348+00
last_modified: 2023-02-15 17:09:33.984016+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: JoLIQMCBeYc
credit: Red Thistle Dancers, 2018 Pleasanton Games
comment:
  Twice through as the first part of a longer display. Here danced in 3 couple sets with 1st couple crossing to the bottom at the end of the reels.


created: 2023-02-16 18:41:10.127915+00
last_modified: 2023-02-16 18:53:51.751895+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: zFTQ3QtrA2o
comment:
  The set in the middle dances without errors.  There are some creative reels in the other visible sets.


created: 2023-02-16 13:48:00.871058+00
last_modified: 2023-02-16 18:54:32.192225+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 8mHnRemJnGI
comment:
  Once through demonstration by two couples with the deviser as 1st man. The video starts about one bar into the dance.


created: 2023-02-21 20:24:33.847896+00
last_modified: 2023-02-21 22:10:31.127182+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: VtpEVw4zYuw
comment:
  Twice through as part of a longer display.
  St. Andrews and Glasgow Dancers, Newcastle Festival 2023
  (Slightly unfortunate camera angle in that the set fully in view is the one at the far end of the hall.)


created: 2023-02-22 01:46:00.996115+00
last_modified: 2023-02-22 02:16:57.933112+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: ol9ZqJQvJqI
comment:
  Video begins with an instructive "walk" thru, then it is danced twice with a walking step and three times with skip change to a jig set played by Dave Mullen on fiddle. A small Mardi Gras party dance in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


created: 2023-02-17 21:38:27.58351+00
last_modified: 2023-02-17 22:51:30.286556+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: J4DDl6vyvWE
credit: Seaforth SCD, Nova Scotia, 2023
comment:
  Danced with one additional very young dancer in the set.

  Unfortunately you can only watch this directly on youtube.


created: 2023-02-22 16:48:10.05157+00
last_modified: 2023-02-23 00:12:51.758064+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: QiH65xO5fQk
comment:
  I, the devisor, was teaching this from a crib on scddatabase (had several beginners and needed an easy RR dance).  The crib was not correct and I adlibbed.  Thus the first 16 bars of the video do not follow the original instructions.  The crib has now been corrected to match the original instructions.  I am adding the video for two reasons.  One: dancing the way I adlibbed it works well.  Two: the last 8 bars are easier to 'see' than to describe and they are done correctly in the video.  Permission granted to dance it either way !


created: 2023-02-22 16:54:20.364159+00
last_modified: 2023-02-23 10:34:55.554338+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 7jeKDg1XKgk
comment:
  This video starts part way through the dance but I left it because everyone finishes in the correct position at the end of that one but on the last one the dancers overshoot their places and don't end correctly.


created: 2023-02-23 15:03:04.268389+00
last_modified: 2023-02-23 17:26:18.384297+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: DnJ1Pb3eAmM
comment:
  January 2023 - Tokyo 

  "To Be A Wind" (J32-5C) devised by Masako Okada Naitoh.
  It is published in "To Be A Wind" book, the 25th anniversary book of Tokyo Scottish Bluebell Club.

  This is to clarify the complicated part, bars 1-14, a series of various half reels on own sides: 
  half reels of three in tandem(5 dancers)/half reels of four/half reels of three/half turn(2 bars)


created: 2022-02-09 16:29:10.743821+00
last_modified: 2023-03-02 00:33:44.717688+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: F5XtB_Fp9e4
comment:
  Russia, 2018.  There is excellent dancing with a lot of flight, but can only be rated as reasonable due to the number of times dancers take a wrong turn passing out between the 3s at various times throughout the dance.  Occasionally, spectators with cameras come into view, particularly at the start.

  Was Reasonable, now unavailable.


created: 2023-02-24 18:03:13.424391+00
last_modified: 2023-02-25 18:13:18.156568+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: DlRJyOHhlMY
credit: Edinburgh RSCDS, Dancing Forth 2009
comment:
  Twice through as the last part of a longer display (the previous dance had a sixth couple who dance off at the start here).


created: 2023-02-27 17:28:00.896773+00
last_modified: 2023-02-27 17:39:34.240372+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: sbNQBgkk3SI
credit: RSCDS Centenary 2023
comment:
  Montage of very brief clips of many groups around the world doing the dance. A fun celebratory video - but not for learning the dance!


created: 2023-02-27 17:35:57.63673+00
last_modified: 2023-02-27 17:40:40.840296+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 4TnlOJg00JA
credit: RSCDS Richmond Branch and Mowden Junior Dancers, 2023
comment:
  Youngsters doing the dance (with sound effects and only a few minor hesitations) in front of a steam locomotive as part of the RSCDS Centenary celebrations.


created: 2023-03-03 10:41:21.803538+00
last_modified: 2023-03-03 18:32:12.2787+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: A_flAIf42S0
credit: RSCDS Centenary celebrations 2023
comment:
  South Morningside Primary School & Edinburgh University New Scotland Country Dance Society at Waverley Station


created: 2023-03-05 19:12:35.500302+00
last_modified: 2023-03-05 22:18:29.654243+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: iNqqSRr1gEY
comment:
  Twice through, with a handful of camera angle changes. 
  Dancers of the York and North Humberside Branch at the Harrogate Weekend 2023. 


created: 2023-03-19 23:30:51.157675+00
last_modified: 2023-03-20 08:55:47.747295+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: VtpEVw4zYuw
comment:
  Twice through as part of a larger display - Start and End with transitions as part of display. St Andrews and Glasgow Dancers, Newcastle 2023. 


created: 2012-04-04 15:55:53.242421+00
last_modified: 2023-03-20 08:51:44.165419+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: ifcMgPgetc0
comment:
  International Branch weekend in Dunfermline, 2009.

  Good dancing, however the deviser notes that the reels of bars 25-32 should be 8 bar reels. Here the corners only dance 6 bars.  
  On bars 31-32 the corners should dance into place the long way round (as if casting) as 1st couple cross RH.  
  Also dancers should give nearer hands to their partner during the reels.


created: 2023-03-23 01:35:31.632537+00
last_modified: 2023-03-23 01:35:31.632537+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: gGqJbDn3Qmk
comment:
  From John W. Mitchell's Whetherly Book 3. Recorded at the FSCDC e.V. weekly class on 28 November 2022.


created: 2013-08-18 00:52:25.739788+00
last_modified: 2023-04-03 15:52:35.711624+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: T1F8V7ZyF5c
comment:
  The first half of the video mostly shows the band only, at the end some full turns through are shown, but hard to follow as the camera pans around.


created: 2023-04-07 01:29:38.565104+00
last_modified: 2023-04-07 20:39:31.432929+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 6Y1xb8bHABE
comment:
  Montreal, 2023. A little gender confusion in the tournée and one almost forgotten H/G but recovered.


created: 2023-04-07 01:24:38.04593+00
last_modified: 2023-04-07 20:53:39.179667+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: LSUPTcQxzGc
comment:
  Montreal 2023. One misdirection in one of the reels but recovered. This clip just shows the last time through the dance.


created: 2023-04-07 02:01:33.133059+00
last_modified: 2023-04-07 20:57:13.119431+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: SaUhyQq1EJE
comment:
  Montreal, 2023. The end of a long class so some 'tired' dancing but the basic moves are there. This clip just shows one time through the dance.


created: 2023-04-07 02:08:13.56997+00
last_modified: 2023-04-07 21:01:38.111539+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: JSE5kOAgc9I
comment:
  Montreal, 2023. A few wrong handed turns but recovered.  Tricky remembering to go from the last LH turn into the grand chain.


created: 2016-12-13 15:55:48.406707+00
last_modified: 2023-04-09 10:27:06.748667+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: TVmyrqdFBuc
comment:
  RSCDS Vienna Branch - dem at Christ Church Bazaar, 19.11.2016

  Part of a Medley: preceded by The Duke of Atholl's Reel (J32 - 2/4L), followed by Montgomeries' Rant (R32 - 3/4L)

  Third time through the last eight bars are modified to move back to a longwise set for the next part of the medley. Camera point-of-view less than ideal.

  Was Good, now Private in youtube.


created: 2023-04-19 03:04:13.993982+00
last_modified: 2023-04-19 11:42:46.32192+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 3g0qLPHsPc0
comment:
  Devised by David Queen for his daughter. Danced here by the Berkeley Monday night class with the band led by Patti Cobb at the piano with Barbara Judd and Jeff Schier on violins and Betsy St Aubin on flute


created: 2023-04-24 06:28:28.565004+00
last_modified: 2023-04-24 06:28:28.565004+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: F5sp2E3RsfQ
comment:
  "Noup of Ness", a 8x32 Hornpipe devised by John W. Mitchell, taken from "The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, Number 7"

  DANCERS
  Participants of the 8th Bonn Spring Workshop class
  "The More, the Merrier, the Mitchell: From John W. Mitchell’s collection of 800 Dances"

  CLASS TEACHER
  Viktor Lehmann

  Video recorded by Michael Schillo, 22 April 2023


created: 2023-04-24 14:00:23.97396+00
last_modified: 2023-04-24 14:00:23.97396+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: Xlg9YQr5vN0
comment:
  "Cork Hornpipe" (SCDDB: 1345), a 8x32 Hornpipe devised by John W. Mitchell, taken from "The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, Number 2"

  DANCERS
  Participants of the 8th Bonn Spring Workshop class
  "The More, the Merrier, the Mitchell: From John W. Mitchell’s collection of 800 Dances"

  CLASS TEACHER
  Viktor Lehmann

  Video recorded by Michael Schillo, 22 April 2023


created: 2023-04-25 06:54:17.982979+00
last_modified: 2023-04-25 06:54:17.982979+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: SsC2PWkRmgw
comment:
  "Caerlaverock Castle" (SCDDB: 913), a 3x40 Strathspey devised by John W. Mitchell, taken from "The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, Number 10"

  DANCERS
  Participants of the 8th Bonn Spring Workshop class
  "The More, the Merrier, the Mitchell: From John W. Mitchell’s collection of 800 Dances"

  CLASS TEACHER
  Viktor Lehmann

  Video recorded by Michael Schillo, 22 April 2023

  COMMENTS
  Due to limited time, we never managed to show the three couple tournée fully as intended for the last three bars. The overall phrasing is 1-4-3 (1 to step in, 4 for a half reel of three incl. body adjustment to face own side, 3 to turn 1 1/4 round to places).


created: 2023-04-25 06:54:18.033989+00
last_modified: 2023-04-25 06:54:18.033989+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: M91op_4Wd0M
comment:
  "Victoria Reel" (SCDDB: 7787), a 160 bar Reel devised by John W. Mitchell, taken from "The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, Number 8"

  DANCERS
  Participants of the 8th Bonn Spring Workshop class
  "The More, the Merrier, the Mitchell: From John W. Mitchell’s collection of 800 Dances"
  This was our second trial with a limited set of dancers.

  CLASS TEACHER
  Viktor Lehmann

  Video recorded by Michael Schillo, 22 April 2023

  COMMENTS
  There is a central "meanwhile figure" for 8 bars with men and ladies dance different things, anticlockwise in the beginning, clockwise at the end. Both versions have flaws; please refer to the dance diagram for further details.


created: 2016-06-07 09:50:46.666634+00
last_modified: 2023-04-28 17:09:04.423498+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 968aGEVDhNU
comment:
  German Team at the 2016 Newcastle Festival. The Carnforth Book 2 instructions for 9-16 indicate dancers turn BH almost once round and “open out” into 4 hands round to the left. In this performance they release hands between the two figures.


created: 2023-04-27 21:19:43.697931+00
last_modified: 2023-04-29 11:02:22.572092+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: l3ErFyWYFd8
credit: Heathermix dancers, Ribble Valley, 2023
comment:
  A good view, but only the first 32 bars (of 40) in strathspey as the middle part of a longer demo. The last 8 are replaced to lead into the next dance and are not included in this clip.


created: 2023-04-27 21:26:17.722316+00
last_modified: 2023-04-29 11:02:28.614662+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: l3ErFyWYFd8
credit: Heathermix dancers, Ribble Valley, 2023
comment:
  Once through as the last part of a longer demo. The double ladies chain of bars 9-16 is being done with LH across in the centre.


created: 2023-05-03 13:26:46.777511+00
last_modified: 2023-05-03 13:26:47.979826+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: gPxpC9M_eMQ
credit: Manchester/Edinburgh/London Gay Gordons, Manchester Tartan Day 2023
comment:
  Danced by members of the Manchester, Edinburgh and London Gay Gordons at the Manchester Tartan Day Dance, 2023


created: 2023-05-04 09:18:17.717604+00
last_modified: 2023-05-05 13:42:02.891923+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: T3BM5ggB-P8
comment:
  Video from 1950 ;-) 
  "The music is not synchronised with the dancing and it is not the original La Russe tune; it is a medley of traditional tunes, presumably added during the editing"


created: 2023-05-11 21:38:22.746285+00
last_modified: 2023-09-12 09:46:38.01258+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: QfUlGFWUdJw
credit: Gay Gordons at Cober Hill, 2023.
comment:
  Those wearing bands are dancing the men's role. Fairly clear in the part of the set nearer the camera (but there is a shoelace problem later on in the further half of the set). Here danced as a medley of reel and jig.


created: 2018-10-02 19:46:08.906621+00
last_modified: 2024-03-24 18:52:57.758883+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 3CEuB_OKaO8
credit: Erin Mills group, Toronto, 2018
comment:
  Due to an earlier mistake in the database (now fixed) the video attributes this dance to "L Reid" but its actually by Trish Reid.

  And Trish Reid comments that hands should not be given in the Inveran Reel (whereas in this video couples are giving hands).


created: 2023-05-18 04:44:30.281645+00
last_modified: 2023-05-18 10:56:00.220696+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: pbs8zytlXzk
comment:
  Thistle Scottish Country Dancers, Halifax/Nova Scotia, April 2023.

  This video shows the updated version of the dance with all couples making an extra half LH turn at the end of the Knot (instead of omitting the half LH turn).


created: 2023-05-21 17:39:04.088745+00
last_modified: 2023-05-21 17:39:05.384566+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: gcyVDlD2Y08
credit: Caledonian Club, Czech Republic, 2023
comment:
  Well danced, as part of a longer demonstration, but here only doing the first 80 bars of the dance (after that the women dance off and the men do an adapted figure leaving two for the next dance in their demo).


created: 2023-05-23 22:41:27.153522+00
last_modified: 2023-05-23 22:41:28.624583+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: AoIa70VGDxQ
credit: London Gay Gordons, 2023
comment:
  The dance is slightly adapted to include a regular dancer in a wheelchair while recuperating from a serious accident.


created: 2023-05-21 18:57:38.029549+00
last_modified: 2023-05-21 20:02:02.405666+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: EAUC6ThKPzM
comment:
  This dance was my introduction to Mel Briscoe's "Turbolink." A nice variant in a nice dance.

  The 1st couple here are taking right hands in bars 29-32 rather than dancing round right shoulder.


created: 2023-05-21 18:29:34.448604+00
last_modified: 2023-05-22 17:38:30.522849+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: IICqwjQre5Q
comment:
  Corrievreckan (64S/64R), danced at the 2023 ASCDS Festival at Retford, Nottinghamshire, by members of the Waltham Scottish Country Dance Group.


created: 2023-05-24 11:45:23.567167+00
last_modified: 2023-05-24 12:19:04.107281+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: qkIkfjeJw9s
comment:
  Danced here once and to the foot in a three-couple set (normally a 3C dance in a 4C set). The dance was filmed by the deviser of the dance


created: 2019-10-10 18:11:52.855815+00
last_modified: 2023-05-26 09:05:07.427527+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: iF4Cz0H1Q6Y
comment:
  One or two hesitations but the coloured shirts make the choreography clear. At the end of the video there is an explanation about the origin of the dance.


created: 2013-08-18 10:55:38.623696+00
last_modified: 2023-05-29 08:53:58.670391+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: ZLZlzaoTj3U
comment:
  Once through, preceded by and followed by Culla Bay in the full clip. To make the transition work, the last 4 bars have been slightly altered.


created: 2023-05-28 09:23:56.818216+00
last_modified: 2023-05-29 07:59:30.700793+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 7t3A-zeWPuQ
credit: Lower Hutt, NZ, 2023
comment:
  Bars 25-32 have the formation "D's in Tandem" which is illustrated separately in <<https://youtu.be/tLA9LGLEB0c>>.


created: 2023-05-31 09:39:55.708539+00
last_modified: 2023-05-31 10:42:35.682327+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 9QmnoAlsZls
comment:
  View from the bottom of the set.
  This was the encore of the dance 4c through. First few bars are missing!!!

  From the Munich Scottish Association Whitsun Weekend, 2023.


created: 2022-02-10 11:57:41.128253+00
last_modified: 2023-06-01 08:44:19.033015+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: R-PB5w-kUMw
comment:
  Russia, 2018.  The dancing is generally to a demonstration standard, but on a couple of occasions dancers travel too far down the set in bars 1-8 and then there is a scramble to reach 2nd place for the half-turn and twirl.

  Was Good, now youtube channel unavailable.


created: 2023-06-05 08:36:26.030984+00
last_modified: 2023-06-05 08:36:27.801824+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: eFIxlDPoCOU
credit: Wellington, NZ, 2023
comment:
  One of a set of dances from the early days of SCD in Wellington. This clip starts with the dancing. The whole video includes introduction and tuition by Elaine Laidlaw.


created: 2023-06-05 08:43:14.561508+00
last_modified: 2023-06-05 09:11:59.751417+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: IJX7DfFF5b4
credit: Wellington, NZ, 2023
comment:
  One of a set of dances from the early days of SCD in Wellington. This clip starts with the dancing. The whole video includes introduction and tuition by the deviser, Romaine Butterfield.


created: 2023-06-05 09:10:12.118344+00
last_modified: 2023-06-05 09:10:13.398459+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: mFHZxa-TUkk
credit: Johnsonville class, NZ, 2023
comment:
  This clip shows the last 3 times (skipping a minor problem the first time and an introductory recap).


created: 2023-06-12 09:13:43.456599+00
last_modified: 2023-06-12 09:13:44.714939+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: hcp66WkV1ek
credit: Oxford University Scottish Dance Society, 2023
comment:
  Traditional May Day performance of Radcliffe Square in Radcliffe Square. This video just has the complete reel part, preceded by the last few bars of the strathspey part.


created: 2013-08-18 10:55:50.666218+00
last_modified: 2023-06-21 09:56:36.580923+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: S_6xmqAc9RE
comment:
  The dancers are seen passing right shoulders between the diagonal reels.  They should pass left shoulders


created: 2012-10-17 02:57:41.486368+00
last_modified: 2023-06-21 10:03:02.001878+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: Ggec5kkmLxM
comment:
  Polharrow Burn performed at the RSCDS Manchester Annual Ball 2007.  Dancers are seen passing right shoulders between reels, this should be left shoulders.


created: 2023-06-25 08:56:29.852023+00
last_modified: 2023-06-25 08:56:31.168355+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: HCjsuD7aGFs
credit: Gleneagles SCD Club at the 2023 West Vancouver Festival
comment:
  This shows the choreography as per the instructions (unlike video #1) - with one quickly recovered glitch the 3rd time though.


created: 2017-01-17 18:12:12.435456+00
last_modified: 2023-06-28 08:08:34.650623+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: W0Bud2HTxK4
comment:
  Dem quality dancing, but missing a few of the details in the original instructions. Also the music seems out of sync with the dancing.


created: 2023-06-27 03:56:49.180114+00
last_modified: 2023-06-28 08:09:47.566903+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: jPVg8tt7OYQ
comment:
  Stricly Scottish Vancouver, 2023. This performance follows all the details in the original instructions. About one and a half times through.


created: 2023-07-05 08:46:35.58107+00
last_modified: 2023-08-16 09:21:32.673503+00
quality: A
source: S
external: avYKUWSWf7tkaqTrxc21Co
embed_path: /videos/embed/4d11cb8a-d03a-4ea4-a73f-f47401e10a36
thumbnail_path: /static/thumbnails/bf7ab967-dd72-4e95-941e-b83c5157ad69.jpg
credit: RSCDS Tokai Branch, June 2023
comment:
  “Rowan's Welcome” performed beautifully by dancers from the RSCDS Tokai Branch, Japan. Video courtesy of Yoshiki Oyama.


created: 2023-06-29 08:19:28.949219+00
last_modified: 2023-06-29 08:19:30.424585+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: zC5cCVkbV1Y
credit: Caledonian Club Czech Republic, 2023
comment:
  Beautifully danced, but with a completely different figure in bars 17-24 from that in the original instructions.


created: 2023-06-29 08:30:09.098414+00
last_modified: 2023-06-29 08:30:10.335224+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: mZ5MMK8LIAQ
credit: Caledonian Club Czech Republic, 2023
comment:
  Lovely performance with just two couples - but also showing a simultaneous side view on a large screen behind.


created: 2023-06-29 23:21:33.788989+00
last_modified: 2024-01-21 23:27:45.870387+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: EML15ichhYI
credit: Méaudre Reel, 2023.
comment:
  In the last 4 bars the RH turn should be 3/4 into promenade hold facing clockwise to then chase round one place clockwise. Here the chase is anticlockwise.


created: 2021-05-12 21:19:54.704685+00
last_modified: 2023-06-30 08:17:31.673564+00
quality: X
source: Y
external: v6_9f6FtU98
comment:
  (Contrary to standard SCD diagram notation men are represented by rectangles, women as oval-ish shapes and some of the terminology is not standard SCD).


created: 2023-07-02 09:46:19.33385+00
last_modified: 2023-07-03 10:11:24.292791+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: RsmlqSGt_kU
credit: RSCDS Los Angeles, 2023
comment:
  This clip just shows the first strathspey section. The LA dem team continue with their own, very different, version of the quicktime section (in reel time).


created: 2023-07-03 08:12:55.164501+00
last_modified: 2023-07-03 08:12:56.385804+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 11oONMvP7Ws
credit: SCD Group Hong Kong, 2023
comment:
  Lovely dancing - just of the strathspey part (skipping the slow jig part of the medley).

  Note that the team here have adapted bars 33-40. Instead of set, half circle and 4 bar turn they do set, cross, half circle and half turn. So not quite as in the original instructions.


created: 2023-01-16 01:40:07.06398+00
last_modified: 2023-07-05 03:05:23.378013+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: NOmhUcfIW0A
comment:
  "Cocktails at Hogmanay", a 5×40 Jig, devised by Viktor Lehmann. Animation & Video Production by Viktor Lehmann, 15 Jan 2023, using "Dance Animations" by Keith Wood.

  This animated version gives a first impression of the dance.

  Full dance description can be found here: 
  https://www.scd-germany.de/de/schottentanzen-in-deutschland/publikationen/

  Minicrib version can be found in the SCD Dance Database (SCDDB):
  https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/20034/

  Follow me on YouTube for more SCD Videos:
  https://www.youtube.com/@viktorlehmann


created: 2023-07-05 03:05:23.38445+00
last_modified: 2023-07-05 03:05:23.38445+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: U8IX0_AivX4
comment:
  "Cocktails at Hogmanay" (SCDDB: 20034), a 5×40 Jig, devised by Viktor Lehmann, danced and recorded by the SCD Group Hong Kong.

  I wrote this dance for a group of 5 dancers who I celebrated New Year‘s Eve with. Person#5 is the straw to mix everything, on the last four bars this dancer adds the half orange to the glass.

  Full dance description can be found here: 
  https://www.scd-germany.de/en/scottish-dancing-in-germany/publications/

  Minicrib version can be found in the SCD Dance Database (SCDDB):
  https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/20034/

  Follow me on YouTube for more SCD Videos:
  https://www.youtube.com/@viktorlehmann


created: 2019-01-29 09:24:24.317237+00
last_modified: 2023-07-06 08:05:59.206048+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 2M8RVwtNEwk
comment:
  Burns Supper 2019, Budapest

  The dancing is of demonstration quality, but as the music is reels, instead of the expected jig time, the video has been downgraded to "good".

  The lead tune is <<ddt:Tommy's Tarbukas#3074>> in the recording at <<https://youtu.be/ofajr_HJsBk>> (see also <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3178/|issue 3178>>).


created: 2023-07-05 21:16:48.105318+00
last_modified: 2023-07-07 09:25:26.280193+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: JH1rQScLrIs
comment:
  Video recorded by Berkhamsted Strathspey and Reel Club demonstration team with dance devisor and his wife as first couple.


created: 2023-07-14 10:05:16.719415+00
last_modified: 2023-07-14 11:21:37.139171+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: oLGOYil5Ffk
comment:
  This is an old video from 2008, hence the less good quality.
  The whole video starts part way through the first time through. This clip starts with the 2nd time.


created: 2023-07-14 10:02:36.110598+00
last_modified: 2023-07-14 11:25:54.809394+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: hYx3HC5227I
comment:
  This is an old video from 2008, hence the less good quality.

  The first view of sets dancing is from 0:55 (2nd time through).


created: 2023-07-14 14:26:09.558451+00
last_modified: 2023-07-14 21:25:50.11678+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: sfUwV4euBrA
comment:
  It's an old video from 2007, hence the less good quality. But it seems to be the only video of the dance so far.


created: 2023-07-18 07:49:37.566633+00
last_modified: 2023-07-18 09:04:38.23396+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: kocac7mTh7w
comment:
  View from the side.
  This was the 1st performance of the dance, at last evening of the Easter Course at the "Kuckucksnest" in April 2009.


created: 2023-07-18 07:48:38.885563+00
last_modified: 2023-07-18 09:06:41.030312+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: O7vYZEMBI0A
comment:
  View from the bottom of the set.
  This was the 1st performance of the dance, at last evening of the Easter Course at the "Kuckucksnest" in April 2009.


created: 2023-07-20 10:26:53.335643+00
last_modified: 2023-07-20 11:43:23.777875+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: QUbhOKAxE9Y
comment:
  Recorded at a class during the "Thistle Club Eindhoven" Dayschool and Ball on 15.10.2005 at "De Landing" in Einhoven/NL.

  The video shows the dance once through, but unfortunately about four bars are missing at the beginning. 
  The full first 8 bars are:  
  1c cross down RH to between 2c | set to P ; dance up and cast to 2plx (2c up) (2,1x)

  Rik wrote this dance for Anne Scobie (Dance Scottish Brussel) on the occasion of her wedding.


created: 2023-07-20 11:08:07.654406+00
last_modified: 2023-07-20 11:46:07.706337+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 0VwJz9u6t-k
comment:
  An old video from the Nunspeet WE 2006, where the deviser of the Dance taught the dance at the workshop. 
  Danced once through only!


created: 2023-07-26 09:19:05.277748+00
last_modified: 2023-07-26 09:33:55.600374+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: QbUrrZmGHjE
comment:
  This YouTube comes from the Canterbury Region Weekend School Advanced Class in Kaikoura over Matariki Weekend (the Maori New Year) in July 2023


created: 2020-02-19 19:54:23.81987+00
last_modified: 2023-08-03 21:03:14.76244+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: WRLgd-CbN1Y
comment:
  Toronto, 2019. The poussette here is danced in the standard way. However the notes in the RSCDS manual specify an unusual poussette phrasing for [25–28] : 1M+2W starting on own sidelines, with Partner: ¼ turn, move | move, ¼ turn ;


created: 2020-04-02 14:30:11.728927+00
last_modified: 2023-08-03 21:12:24.045118+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 8GyxFiErrws
comment:
  Twice through in a two couple set.  Note the unusual poussette phrasing for [25–28] : 1M+2W starting on own sidelines, with Partner: ¼ turn, move | move, ¼ turn (see the RSCDS manual).


created: 2023-07-31 05:42:19.782728+00
last_modified: 2023-08-03 21:35:17.572692+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: hBxJgrGsHJI
comment:
  Potters Pairs, 2023. Here danced as 2x40S then 2x40R with one quickly recovered hesitation in the last repeat.


created: 2023-08-09 21:58:37.131356+00
last_modified: 2023-09-11 23:21:25.283241+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 7xg5_hR_QG0
credit: London Gay Gordons and friends, 2023
comment:
  This performance omits the optional extras and is not quite as exuberant as it might have been if the dedicatee had been present.


created: 2023-08-05 17:49:33.241482+00
last_modified: 2023-08-05 17:49:34.67354+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: oS8dRNJRu60
credit: Strictly Scottish, British Columbia Highland Games 2023
comment:
  Twice through as the 1st part of a longer display. Lovely dancing though omitting some details from the instructions which suggest 2nd & 4th couples should move up slightly on bars 3-4 and also that the dancing couples cross up right hand in bars 25-26.


created: 2023-08-06 06:51:56.422081+00
last_modified: 2023-08-06 06:51:57.721323+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: xFL3lT_oJI0
credit: Strictly Scottish, British Columbia Highland Games 2023
comment:
  Twice through as the first part of a longer display starting with a dance on instead of the opening circle and with the men doing the petronella and set the second time through.


created: 2023-08-09 21:32:45.249136+00
last_modified: 2023-08-09 21:32:46.607376+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: O5-FguYh7sI
credit: SCD Group Hong Kong, 2023
comment:
  Twice through. The team here are dancing the version from the revised edition of Whetherly Book 4 published in 2020.


created: 2023-04-14 06:45:14.995892+00
last_modified: 2023-08-06 10:00:12.764719+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: _E-6psqvAqM
comment:
  RSCDS Montreal Branch, A+P Social, April 2023.

  A clear demonstration, though the dancers here do not take nearer hands when advancing and retiring in bars 25-26 (whereas the instructions state that they should).


created: 2016-09-26 19:30:25.040519+00
last_modified: 2023-08-13 22:17:41.984191+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: 1E7ky0m9TF8
comment:
  2. Austro-Hungarian Weekend - Győr, Hungary, 2016.09.25
  Teacher: David Hall

  Was Good, now unavailable.


created: 2012-10-04 07:22:46.219544+00
last_modified: 2023-08-13 23:06:08.287481+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: rbJrORRqsp0
comment:
  NOTE: Since the original publication of "Dancing on Air" in 2011, bars [13-16] and [21-24] of this dance have been modified.  The formation is now "set to corner; turn corner BH".  The diagrams are correct. 

  In this video, these turns are made incorrectly with RH instead of BH.

  Was Reasonable, now private in youtube (maybe due to dance being changed?).


created: 2022-02-04 09:40:00.200052+00
last_modified: 2023-08-13 23:09:43.131186+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: LQlzWYgpfOA
comment:
  The Swan And The Tay - Russia, 2018.  This clip shows the 2nd & 3rd times (the 1st time has some distracting persons in front of the camera).  The camera position gives a clear view - only the first lady's position is out of shot.

  Was Good, now unavailable (youtube account terminated).


created: 2016-04-21 22:20:49.156354+00
last_modified: 2023-09-11 22:17:16.176553+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: Mn3E55dmj4w
credit: Geneva Spring Dance (in Dardagny), 2016
comment:
  A few hesitations but otherwise choreographically fine.

  The selected video clip starts with the dancing. The complete video starts with a walkthrough (introduced by the deviser) and the band playing the two tunes composed for the dance by Muriel Johnstone.


created: 2018-10-02 15:28:54.017962+00
last_modified: 2018-10-02 19:32:07.207823+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: G_3pDGJOtBA
credit: RSCDS Toronto 2014 Gala Day.
comment:
  Three couple set with modifications in bars 17-24 to allow a 231 progression instead of 213 as expected for a four couple set. The instructions say 1st couple should cross up above 2nd woman and cast to 2nd place. Here they cross straight over and cast to 3rd place.


created: 2018-10-09 22:46:58.646165+00
last_modified: 2023-08-03 21:02:05.245751+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 1HthmC_UccM
credit: Toronto, 2015
comment:
  The poussette here is danced in the standard way. However the notes in the RSCDS manual specify an unusual poussette phrasing for [25–28] : 1M+2W starting on own sidelines, with Partner: ¼ turn, move | move, ¼ turn ;


created: 2019-09-05 12:06:56.949912+00
last_modified: 2022-11-13 18:55:05.227686+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: zW61sP440Lg
credit: 2017 Spring Fling
comment:
  Excellent set in a close up view with some dancers out of view at times. Was considered Good but now unavailable.


created: 2019-09-18 12:41:30.64551+00
last_modified: 2022-06-13 08:34:43.980719+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: T5dhj3NhEbs
credit: Woodbridge SCD Group, Bredfield Village Hall, 2019
comment:
  Performed by members of the Woodbridge Scottish Country Dance Group on 14th August 2019 at Bredfield Village Hall, Suffolk UK.  
  Dance is from RSCDS Norwich Branch 50th Anniversay Book, and music is Captain McBride's Hornpipe played by Green Ginger.


created: 2019-09-26 11:05:33.331497+00
last_modified: 2022-02-24 17:15:34.028814+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 5cq7_TKdne8
credit: Leicester RSCDS, 2019 ASCDS festival
comment:
  Once through clip from a longer display. The video continues with another repeat of this dance but the end is modified to lead into the next dance.


created: 2019-09-26 11:13:46.955366+00
last_modified: 2022-02-24 17:16:22.986949+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 5cq7_TKdne8
credit: Leicester RSCDS, 2019 ASCDS festival
comment:
  Once through clip from a longer display. Danced in a five couple set (instead of seven). View from the side.


created: 2019-10-10 19:17:03.933517+00
last_modified: 2022-09-28 00:07:35.825478+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: bO3RmxirvVI
credit: SCD group Hong Kong, 2018
comment:
  Twice through (almost). 1st place is not always in view. Good dancing but some differences from the instructions, eg 1st & 3rd couples ought to end the reels with nearer hands joined for petronella in tandem. Here the dancers petronella into the corners rather than staying together.


created: 2019-10-11 20:18:29.8395+00
last_modified: 2019-10-12 12:23:46.444131+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: O96XWcNCRIc
credit: 1993 Toronto International Festival Tattoo
comment:
  Not useful for learning the dance, but an impressive display at what is claimed to be the largest ever demonstration of SCD involving 960 dancers (120 sets).


created: 2019-11-29 18:59:40.507668+00
last_modified: 2022-12-08 11:08:14.750648+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: pe4TnvPbAnQ
credit: Little Rock, Arkansas, 2011
comment:
  Once each couple in a 4 couple set with 1st couple casting off to the bottom at the end of the promenade as Drewry recommends.


created: 2019-12-15 12:27:42.260381+00
last_modified: 2019-12-17 11:05:30.886265+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 2MoNEdkx_Bo
credit: RSCDS Helensburgh & District 41st Weekend School Dance
comment:
  Generally good, albeit with a few hesitations, but the music track seems to get progressively out of sync with the dancing. Devised by Anne Thorn to celebrate RSCDS Helensburgh & District's 40th Weekend School, danced at the 41st Weekend's Dance. Music played by Glencraig (Nicol McLaren)


created: 2020-02-29 11:34:20.271314+00
last_modified: 2023-05-03 13:22:26.473961+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 1Pr5MZ6zlEg
credit: Manchester Gay Gordons
comment:
  Danced by the Manchester Gay Gordons in a 3 couple set, each couple dancing as if their 2nd turn.Those wearing sashes are the ladies.

  Here danced as  a reel (the dance was previously described as such in the database, but is now known to be a jig).


created: 2020-03-29 20:04:36.475582+00
last_modified: 2020-11-07 14:12:49.305477+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: pCE2eqy3V-A
credit: Aberdeen RSCDS
comment:
  Second of two demonstrations of this dance on the same video. Twice through (with a recovered little glitch in the reels the 2nd time).


created: 2020-04-09 16:34:30.790332+00
last_modified: 2020-04-09 22:08:53.922069+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: PTAz97GHkGk
credit: Arkansas SCD Society, Russellville, 2011
comment:
  This is a demonstration of a Scottish Country Dance by the Arkansas ScottishCountry Dance Society, Little Rock, AR. This was performed at the Little Rock "Greek Food Festival," May 17, 2014.  

  Dancers at this event were: Ursula Chandler, Sandy Furrer, Nita Herrick, John Johnson, Bernadette Lange, Edith Miller, John Miller, Pat Pennington, David Peterson, Donna Peterson, Susan Posnar, Macy Purtle, and Mary Schlatterer.  Directed by Judy Robinson.


created: 2020-05-16 11:07:26.51529+00
last_modified: 2023-08-13 22:14:53.570726+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: DbXSOAWH5L4
credit: Bellingham SCD Spring Ceilidh, 2017
comment:
  Bellingham Scottish Country Dancers Spring Ceilidh, at the Littlefield Celtic Center, Mount Vernon WA. April 30, 2017  

  Music by Up In The Air. Jimie Gregory on fiddle, Beverly Porter on flute, John Borso on guitar, Pam Borso on guitar, and Tom Tonge on bass.   

  https://bellinghamscd.org   

  Video by Bob Olson

  Was Informal, now unavailable.


created: 2020-06-21 22:02:57.210791+00
last_modified: 2020-06-22 23:13:59.047617+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: _isARpo3kds
credit: RSCDS Summer School 2005
comment:
  A closer and lighter view of the same performance as video 1. There is a small glitch in the figure of 8 at the start of the 4th repeat.   
  Country Dance display from RSCDS Summer School 2005


created: 2020-07-14 20:32:00.993665+00
last_modified: 2020-07-14 21:00:44.007949+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 4Lx9rAcJ6RA
credit: Newcastle RSCDS, Newcastle Festival 2019
comment:
  Part of Newcastle RSCDS display at the 2019 Newcastle festival. The first 32 bars is done in a single set. The rest of the dance is continued with extra dancers reformed into two sets. The end of the final circle is adapted to lead into the next dance in the demo.


created: 2020-07-17 17:13:39.363285+00
last_modified: 2020-10-16 22:33:49.863824+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: Wab3nv1PjZU
credit: St Petersburg, February 2015
comment:
  Once through in two back to back 3 couple sets. Extract from a demo practice session in St Petersburg (taught by Anselm Lingnau).


created: 2020-07-26 11:27:56.839109+00
last_modified: 2020-07-27 12:50:27.359468+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: z_uWUfIGZsY
credit: Danced by Derek Haynes
comment:
  Extract from a longer RSCDS archive compilation. This clip starts with a short introduction. The dancing starts at 9:56.


created: 2020-07-27 20:26:54.751158+00
last_modified: 2020-07-27 21:22:02.699939+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: uPCVWSMXLtQ
credit: Newcastle RSCDS, Newcastle Festival 2015
comment:
  Once through as part of a display. The top of the right hand set is out of view for the first couple of bars. To lead into the next dance 1st couple cross LH at the end instead of RH.


created: 2020-07-27 20:49:22.424004+00
last_modified: 2020-07-27 21:02:55.943244+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: uPCVWSMXLtQ
credit: Newcastle RSCDS, Newcastle Festival 2015
comment:
  Once through as part of a display. The last two bars are slightly adapted (advancing to the centre) to lead into the next dance. Sources seem to differ as to whether to touch hands during the reels.


created: 2020-08-07 20:44:12.237837+00
last_modified: 2021-01-31 11:17:06.096003+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: hJvoYB6QL1E
credit: 1930s film by Ion Jamieson
comment:
  Silent and shaky extract from 1930s film, by Ion Jamieson,-    of dances from the borders. The <<https://youtu.be/hJvoYB6QL1E|youtube comments>> have lots of additional information.

  Unfortunately this video can only be played directly on youtube, so you will need to click "watch on youtube". This dance starts at 2:27 into the video.


created: 2020-08-09 08:39:33.877541+00
last_modified: 2020-08-09 08:41:45.547218+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: eIic49dkXmg
credit: RSCDS Hunter Valley Branch instructional video
comment:
  One couple and 3 pairs of chairs. This clip just shows once through the first turn of the dance with 1st couple ending on opposite sides. The whole video begins with detailed teaching and walkthroughs. The 2nd turn starts from opposite sides. This is described in detail from 8:21 and danced from 11:02.


created: 2020-10-05 11:48:52.800063+00
last_modified: 2020-10-05 18:00:27.96148+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: F8OORiTtq0o
credit: Red Thistle, Pacific Grove Concert, 1988
comment:
  Extract from the concert. Excellent dancing, but the version of the dance being done here differs in some details from the version published in <<ddpub:#1558>>. The published version has women dancing 4 hands round in bars 1-4 and the last 8 bars is also different. <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dancevideo/7615/|Video 1>> shows the published version.


created: 2020-10-17 15:45:00.985021+00
last_modified: 2020-10-17 15:46:08.735481+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: 0XPd8jYwkrE
credit: Class, 2017 Kazan SCD School (Russia)
comment:
  Taught by Malcolm Brown. The video starts with a recap however the two Weasel reels in this dance (up/down and across) and the transitions between them prove a challenge.


created: 2020-12-29 00:01:08.674198+00
last_modified: 2022-02-18 10:37:24.039692+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: OWa8aRC6UUM
credit: Torino (Clivis) 2016 SCD Ball
comment:
  Three repeats. The video starts about 2 bars into the first repeat.

  Now private in youtube (was graded Reasonable)


created: 2021-01-03 22:04:47.03392+00
last_modified: 2021-01-03 22:04:58.429851+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: FPuQiMBz91A
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh dem team
comment:
  This clip is part of a longer medley. It shows the first 80 bars of the dance. Then, from about 19:52, the last 16 bars (hands across & casting then circle) are replaced with other choreography to link into the next dance in the demonstration.


created: 2021-01-06 17:34:58.630971+00
last_modified: 2022-07-04 08:31:10.885645+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: eDPEiicOfW0
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh Dancing Forth 2007
comment:
  Danced once each couple in two 3 couple sets, on and off stage with different orientations and the camera switching between them. The final turns are adapted to get 1st couple to 3rd place.

  As is traditional in Edinburgh, the two hand turns are here done with skip change rather than pas de basque.

  NB the sound track is out of sync with the dancing.


created: 2021-01-07 20:47:12.918505+00
last_modified: 2021-01-07 21:11:27.108535+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: j8WgQOlePF8
credit: Comhlan (Krakow, Poland)
comment:
  A clear demo, though it looks as though the dancers do not dance down for all of bars 9-12, perhaps due to restricted space.


created: 2021-01-07 21:11:13.596383+00
last_modified: 2021-01-07 21:12:16.980537+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: Jk4eBwlHIy4
credit: Auld Comhlan (Krakow, Poland)
comment:
  Demonstration performed in formal gardens "in the time of coronavirus plague, 2020". The dance is recommended as a medley of 64 bars of minuet and 64 bars of jig. Here, after the 64 bars of minuet (to 2:34) they continue with the first 24 bars again as minuet.


created: 2021-01-09 17:26:39.549905+00
last_modified: 2022-06-19 09:43:47.217082+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: MUd8Ng5nGAM
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh Strictly Scottish 1993
comment:
  Twice through as part of a longer demonstration. The end of the 2nd repeat is slightly adapted to lead into the next dance. Good demonstration but rather dark video.

  Original video was replaced by another youtube upload. But probably best to keep this blocked as its really too dark to follow and there are other videos.


created: 2021-01-14 20:36:03.449778+00
last_modified: 2022-01-27 20:04:33.207093+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: A3zVbjl5Ljo
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh Dancing Forth 2010
comment:
  Twice through as part of a longer demonstration. The last 10 bars of the 2nd repeat are heavily adapted to lead into the next dance in the demo.


created: 2021-01-14 20:50:07.029363+00
last_modified: 2022-01-27 20:09:48.72784+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: A3zVbjl5Ljo
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh Dancing Forth 2010
comment:
  Twice through as part of a longer demonstration. The dance would normally be done in longwise sets but is here done as a round the room dance. The end of the 2nd repeat is slightly adapted to lead into the next dance in the demo.


created: 2021-01-17 23:34:50.006632+00
last_modified: 2021-01-17 23:35:30.180462+00
quality: X
source: Y
external: tGLZ5t1IXic
credit: George Williams animation
comment:
  Men are here represented by rectangles and women by ovals (roughly the opposite of the usual SCD diagram convention). The video shows several repeats of the dance. The first one in slow motion, the rest faster.

  There are a few minor infelicities in depiction of casts and stepping down, but the overall form of the dance is clear.


created: 2021-01-31 17:27:01.487142+00
last_modified: 2022-03-24 22:06:03.569578+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: wfxPeNXvx_8
credit: Teenagers from the Méaudre Reel Club, France
comment:
  Twice through. Here the dancers pass right shoulder on bars 7-8 instead of half turning right hand. On the last two bars of the 2nd time the team  change places on the sides instead of setting.


created: 2021-02-05 21:23:59.353954+00
last_modified: 2021-05-19 17:55:01.73846+00
quality: X
source: Y
external: QT9HGKgZwLg
credit: Animation
comment:
  A rather surreal attempt at an animation using top hats for the men and teapots for the women (inspired by the Wonderland theme). It seemed too odd to have upside down teapots, so the images are always facing the same way, rather than turning round. This unfortunately makes it harder to follow which way a dancer would really be facing - though normally they face the way they are moving, except when setting in the Bourrel. The twirl (cast) away after the first two hand turn in the Bourrel is replaced by a kind of funny turn video effect. Hopefully the subtitles help to make the choreography clear.

  The attempt to synchronise animation with music resulted in a not very smoothly flowing movement.


created: 2021-03-22 16:45:02.731643+00
last_modified: 2021-03-22 16:58:12.428894+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: a42G9iRlBoM
credit: Santa Cruz group from San Francisco RSCDS
comment:
  Good dancing but rather limited view. Twice through in a 3 couple set with 1st couple turning to the bottom between chain progression and circle.


created: 2021-03-31 18:06:27.094481+00
last_modified: 2021-04-01 20:01:12.438806+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: NaC3nWINHSU
credit: Singapore Ball 2015
comment:
  All male demo with highland style setting at the Singapore ball 2015. Six times through in a three couple set.


created: 2021-04-01 17:05:51.752427+00
last_modified: 2021-04-01 17:07:39.306527+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: XdqsvOr3THc
credit: RSCDS San Diego Branch 45th anniversary, March 2020
comment:
  Demonstration of a dance for Ward Fleri presented at the    San Diego Branch 45th anniversary in March 2020. Danced to the newly composed tune, Ward Fleri of San Diego.

  This clip shows one complete repeat of the dance (the video starts part way through an earlier one).


created: 2021-04-01 22:38:04.554678+00
last_modified: 2021-04-02 10:46:16.991621+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: n7RajlYOqc0
credit: New Haven
comment:
  A bit less than twice through. The video starts around bar 4 of one repeat and ends before the closing rights & lefts of the second repeat but is a pretty clear rendition.


created: 2021-04-06 20:23:25.143827+00
last_modified: 2023-01-14 23:38:43.524537+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: iH2dIk5UbII
credit: Novisibirsk 2018
comment:
  Some mishaps, especially in the first grand chain, but generally improving as the dance continues.

  Was Reasonable: now unavailable (youtube account terminated).


created: 2021-05-04 16:29:07.616702+00
last_modified: 2021-05-04 16:31:26.08966+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 9KOTM12AP4Q
credit: Unigarka Sole Dance (Omsk, Russia)
comment:
  Demo in a bar with roving camera so rarely showing the whole set. The back to back is often just two bars after extra setting.


created: 2021-08-23 23:06:44.179449+00
last_modified: 2021-08-23 23:11:53.25907+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: QIO7hggYwuc
credit: TAC Summer School 2016
comment:
  Introduced by the deviser who is then playing the music he composed for the dance. There seem to be a couple of unexpected shoulder passes in the mirror reels.


created: 2021-09-26 12:07:11.050111+00
last_modified: 2021-09-26 12:10:41.015763+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: OZxwoA1Q_jk
credit: Dawlish Warren holiday, September 2021
comment:
  Danced, to live music from Marian Anderson and her band, by participants at the Dawlish Warren dancing holiday organised by the deviser, Amanda Peart, in September 2021


created: 2021-11-28 09:33:56.375524+00
last_modified: 2021-12-01 23:12:28.413396+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: VUJrWYJ89G8
credit: Berkhamsted Strathspey & Reel Club 2021
comment:
  Dance in memory of former club member Stuart Anderson. Danced three times to music by Ken Martlew.

  NB the piano in the hall was being played for the first time since the end of lockdown and was in need of tuning.


created: 2021-11-29 17:48:34.691625+00
last_modified: 2021-11-29 17:55:13.853959+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: rsn1YSwNVew
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh Dancing Forth 2011
comment:
  Middle part of a longer display. Twice through in three 2 couple sets. Here done with the ending preferred by the deviser (as published in the Oriole Book).


created: 2021-12-03 21:57:24.617159+00
last_modified: 2021-12-04 23:57:06.370869+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 5ULSt8bfRz0
credit: Caledonian Club at the 2007 Sychrov Highland Games
comment:
  The last 8 bars are here done in the original version (all turn RH, then LH). The instructions suggest the women should go first, but here the men start each time.


created: 2021-12-07 22:09:02.472302+00
last_modified: 2021-12-07 22:15:41.623052+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: vGK0N2Gad4A
credit: Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, 2021
comment:
  Excellent dancing with a few little glitches. The instructions suggest 2nd & 3rd couples step up together on bars 23-24 but here 2nd couple step up earlier.


created: 2021-12-16 12:37:22.897732+00
last_modified: 2021-12-16 12:52:06.134752+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: snuv9TeWGRY
credit: Cambridge University Strathspey & Reel Club 75th Birthday 2021
comment:
  Twice through as the first part of a longer display. The first repeat starts with just two couples for the first 8 bars. The second repeat has the expected three couples throughout. Dancers are sometimes outside the camera view.


created: 2021-12-16 12:44:37.50165+00
last_modified: 2021-12-16 12:52:49.4494+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: snuv9TeWGRY
credit: Cambridge University Strathspey & Reel Club 75th Birthday 2021
comment:
  Twice through as part of a longer display. Excellent dancing but in both repeats the final rights and lefts is adapted to change the orientation of the set or to end in a square set. Dancers are sometimes outside the camera view.


created: 2022-01-14 23:19:23.640085+00
last_modified: 2022-01-14 23:22:59.719527+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: zkSjlktuwK0
credit: Northern Italy Scottish Country Dancers, 2012
comment:
  A class being coached through the dance. The first half circle is here danced to the right rather than to the left. And the meanwhile figure in bars 57-72 (half reels and turns) goes a little awry.


created: 2022-01-20 23:09:20.88566+00
last_modified: 2022-01-21 10:43:23.946881+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: ESGXuGYkmEE
credit: Madrid Iberian Weekend 2015
comment:
  The strathspey section goes well, but the reel section is more of a challenge, especially the interesting "Iberian Knot" figure.


created: 2022-02-02 23:21:09.965557+00
last_modified: 2022-02-03 17:54:49.588868+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: UIh6hRKJr-o
credit: Auld Comhlan, Krakow, Poland, 2022
comment:
  With spoken instructions (in Polish) and highlighted display of the diagram. This clip starts with the dancing. The whole video has a longer introduction. The 2nd couples are not stepping in before the poussettes.


created: 2022-02-20 00:16:22.064295+00
last_modified: 2022-02-20 00:17:52.497175+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 9HoZbRozwng
credit: RSCDS Leeds, White Rose Festival 2012
comment:
  This clip shows the last two repeats (earlier ones are not quite as clear with some minor false starts). The dancers here chose the option of turning LH twice before the final reels.


created: 2022-02-21 20:04:55.666929+00
last_modified: 2022-02-21 22:47:40.975529+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: pd3XXuLhC_s
credit: RSCDS Leicester, 2003 ASCDS festival
comment:
  This clip shows once through the dance in two 4 couple sets as part of a longer display. [NB the video continues with an 8 bar transition into the next dance but this is not part of Silver Threads which ends with the Tournee].


created: 2022-02-24 20:20:54.734801+00
last_modified: 2022-02-24 20:27:51.673314+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: TNhLDHVED2A
credit: Leicester RSCDS, ASCDS Festival 2018
comment:
  Twice through in 3 couple sets as the first part of a longer display. The end of the 2nd time is slightly adapted to lead into the next dance in the demo.


created: 2022-03-21 22:05:51.557618+00
last_modified: 2022-03-21 22:09:18.445389+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 8yEy2VAHfjc
credit: RSCDS Leicester, ASCDS festival 2005
comment:
  This is part of a longer demo. The last 8 bars (starting at 3:35), which should be a circle and back, are here replaced with promenading to reform for the next dance in the display.


created: 2022-04-09 10:05:30.054131+00
last_modified: 2022-04-12 19:20:34.645477+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: 7VKCUTnGTtI
credit: Méaudre Reel 2021
comment:
  Shows the revised version of the dance. There are some problems with the Rose and transitions, also a few short cuts here and there.


created: 2022-05-19 23:07:11.202441+00
last_modified: 2022-05-23 07:46:00.763581+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: ckl4aDL8_rM
credit: "Reflection" Dance School, 2022
comment:
  Eight times through! Clear view from above. For the advance and retire the couples here take nearer hands rather than promenade hold.


created: 2022-05-29 08:46:14.563107+00
last_modified: 2023-02-12 21:49:08.631329+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 3N1i7kGZ1oY
credit: From 2022
comment:
  The video starts about two bars into the dance. It is here done as a jig (originally the dance was intended as a strathspey).


created: 2022-07-11 08:31:54.927558+00
last_modified: 2022-07-11 08:37:04.053641+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: LvahthgfClY
credit: Erin Mills group, RSCDS Toronto Gala Day 1987
comment:
  This clip shows once through the dance as part of a longer demo. Excellent dancing but constant cutting between camera angles makes it hard to follow.


created: 2022-07-27 22:17:33.96153+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 17:51:37.294069+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 2vRT6vj7WYA
credit: London Gay Gordons & friends, 2022
comment:
  This shows the original version of the dance with 3rd couple crossing RH in bars 23-24. Subsequently it was suggested they should half turn with both hands.


created: 2022-09-04 08:14:30.833739+00
last_modified: 2022-09-04 09:08:37.298169+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: IPg620O4YYM
credit: RSCDS Summer School
comment:
  First performance of the dance at the St Andrews Summer School. The deviser and his wife Szilvia start as 1st couple. Some early repeats collapse during the figure of eight grand chain but later they get the hang of it.


created: 2022-11-18 23:11:50.142194+00
last_modified: 2023-06-25 08:37:57.001038+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: hwOaCd_Tbos
credit: Gleneagles SCD Club, 2022
comment:
  Here 1st couple cast off before all three couples turn RH. The instructions have the turn before the casting off.


created: 2022-11-18 23:24:31.24848+00
last_modified: 2022-11-18 23:32:54.458551+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: b4CU8o7c6Rs
credit: RSCDS SW Washington State Branch, 2022
comment:
  Danced outside with a backdrop of the Multnomah Falls (Oregon) in a 4 couple set with each 1st couple ending in 4th place. The dancing starts around 0:20 after a view of the waterfalls.


created: 2023-01-29 10:59:58.543982+00
last_modified: 2023-01-31 22:13:29.323147+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: yzR-DBxL-IQ
credit: Méaudre Reel children, 2021
comment:
  Bars 13-16 (expected to be set and cross down LH) are here replaced by cast and cross LH. The children get ahead of the music from time to time.


created: 2023-02-01 23:01:47.735346+00
last_modified: 2023-02-02 18:45:57.193973+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 3BGnuQ1WWs8
credit: Naramata Scottish Country Dancers, 2023
comment:
  Danced in 2 couple sets, the one nearest the camera dancing up & down rather than down & up. This clip starts with the first time through the dance (after an introductory dance on).


created: 2023-02-18 09:54:45.302377+00
last_modified: 2023-02-18 12:39:56.861353+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: rXnf8Bu23cE
credit: Red Thistle Dancers, 2017 Pleasanton Games
comment:
  Once through as the first part of a longer display. They also repeat it at the end of the video (from 1:59).


created: 2023-02-23 20:39:35.579893+00
last_modified: 2023-02-23 21:13:48.928966+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: dEUUKZlsM9I
credit: RSCDS Edinburgh Dancing Forth 2007
comment:
  Once each couple in two 3 couple sets with 1st couple casting to 3rd place each time. The first part of a longer display. Good view from above for the 1st time, thereafter the camera zooms in on individual couples.


created: 2023-03-13 11:19:53.373968+00
last_modified: 2023-03-13 12:06:48.412198+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 0nUhvi2rHG0
credit: Oxford and Cambridge Highland Ball, 2023
comment:
  Demo. Once through starting in two side by side sets as the middle part of a longer display. Excellent dancing, but here the progressive promenade is changed to bring both sets into a single line (without progression) for the final poussette. The left hand set starts with the 1st couple nearer the camera.


created: 2023-05-10 16:55:37.359623+00
last_modified: 2023-05-10 16:56:39.139785+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: YPIR5nnu1KU
credit: Caledonian Club Czech Republic, 2022 Highland Games, Sychrov Chateau
comment:
  This clip shows the last two repeats starting from top place (the whole video starts part way through a repeat). A clear demonstration though the dancers here are not touching hands while the centre person is turning.


created: 2023-06-25 21:39:31.771681+00
last_modified: 2023-06-25 21:43:01.851251+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: VTdbvm8GgVg
credit: Buenos Aires, 2023
comment:
  Twice through as the first part of a longer demo. The video frequently cuts between two different camera views but its still fairly clear to follow.

  NB the dancers here follow the original choreography ending with 1st & 6th couples turning RH then LH (instead of circle 12 hands round and back).


created: 2023-06-28 08:28:24.517363+00
last_modified: 2023-06-28 08:32:52.333363+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: DMmFHgBNNyU
credit: Braemar SCD Auckland, NZ, 2023
comment:
  Once through. The 1st couple here lead down & up with right hands in bars 9-10 whereas the instructions have "dance" (with nearer hands).

  The youtube comments say this is a video of Rod Downey's Short and Very Sweet, but that is a completely different dance to the one actually shown here.


created: 2013-11-08 23:12:54.674289+00
last_modified: 2023-08-16 09:06:14.42942+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: 8ZyX6WJbfbw
comment:
  This video gives a general impression of "La Russe", but differs in several respects:

  1.  On [1-16] turning the corners and partner is done with a birling turn instead of BH turn.

  2.  For [17-32] either 1c+3c or 2c+4c dance; this should be one couple only.  The Poussette [25-32]is missing, replaced by biring turns for 8 bars placed in [17-24].

  3.  Arches have been added for [33-48]

  4.  The big wheel [57-64] has been replaced by a promenade cclw once round.

  Was Reasonable, now unavailable on youtube.


created: 2023-06-01 23:33:06.394114+00
last_modified: 2023-08-16 09:20:55.37609+00
quality: B
source: S
external: xayaeAzQAnLNybfMwiF2Ut
embed_path: /videos/embed/fc60cfab-6d97-4731-ba7e-486b7dc3fa2f
thumbnail_path: /static/thumbnails/e0bb739b-0dea-4c42-aa4f-1c224a6f7892.jpg
credit: Frankfurt SCD Club e.V., 30 May 2023
comment:
  Danced at the Frankfurt SCD Club e.V. on 30 May 2023.

  Dancers are Marie Schwarz, Martina Christine Weibezahn, Laura Grazioli, Anna Heinchen, Matthias Lang, Birgit Stefanowicz, Schorsch Lusky, and Jan Zisenis.

  Music used: “Alasdair's Reels” from *Carriages at Midnight* by Chris Duncan and Catherine Strutt.


created: 2023-08-16 21:59:23.529754+00
last_modified: 2023-08-16 22:40:40.021762+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: r2GIVPdAy5k
credit: Berkeley Class Ajudication practice for the 2019 Pleasanton Scottish games
comment:
  This is the close up of a rehearsal for the performance that is shown in the other video (<<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dancevideo/5014/|video 2>>) from some distance away.  Mastering the transition from the end into the second time took work, but is great fun.


created: 2023-08-17 12:24:58.191711+00
last_modified: 2023-08-17 18:20:25.2539+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 7RL_4DY1l_c
credit:
  An 8 x 32 bar reel devised by John Brenchley in 2005 for his wife Christine and daughters Michelle and Helen.  Danced by members of the RSCDS Western Australia Branch, August 2023.


created: 2023-08-20 06:52:28.021303+00
last_modified: 2023-08-20 06:52:29.32324+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: XLqiB2EI2Ic
credit:
  Lady Glasgow was on the programme for the combined Johnsonville-Capital City Scottish country dancing clubs' annual dance on August 19, 2023. The video shows just the final times through.


created: 2023-08-20 07:00:20.500534+00
last_modified: 2023-08-20 07:00:21.762697+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: Y0_sjZQxrUg
credit:
  'Aileen Logie' was on the programme for the combined Johnsonville-Capital City Scottish country dancing clubs' annual dance on August 19, 2023. The video shows just the first few times through.


created: 2023-08-21 10:02:15.515763+00
last_modified: 2023-09-06 23:42:21.564016+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: -9LWPS_ExCk
credit:
  RSCDS Boston Branch - The Pinewoods Reel danced live in its "native habitat", at the 2023 Scottish Pinewoods Sessions at Pinewoods Camp, Plymouth, MA


created: 2023-08-29 00:39:16.104775+00
last_modified: 2023-08-29 00:39:17.429498+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: q71-l_3JpMQ
credit:
  The Starry Eyed Lassie was on the programme for the Napier Scottish Country Dancing Club's 70th Anniversary Ball on August 26, 2023. The dance was held in St Patrick's School hall, Napier, New Zealand.


created: 2013-08-18 10:56:05.948891+00
last_modified: 2023-09-01 20:27:14.770104+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: UT8xRaxB-Fg
comment:
  This is a ceilidh dance, described in text inserted into the video.  As the camera battery died, only part of the dance was recorded.  The beginning of the dance is much like a "Grand March", later followed by "over and under".  This video seems unrelated to the dance "Waves of Tory" entered on SCDDB.

credit:
  [Editor Viktor Lehmann blocked this video, as it doesn't show the SCD version of the dance and might cause confusion.]


created: 2023-09-03 17:39:05.688534+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 17:39:24.701463+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: xB7JlrQ9T-0
credit: Strictly Scottish, British Columbia Highland Games 2023
comment:
  Twice through as the 2nd part of a longer display (which starts with The Sailor). The set on the left is not completely in view.


created: 2023-09-03 18:22:20.906343+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 18:22:22.178649+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: 7N7Xn74b8Vg
credit:
  The Sailor was on the programme for the Lower Hutt Scottish Country Dancing Club's annual dance on September 2, 2023.  The dance was held in the Knox Church hall in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand.


created: 2023-09-03 18:27:21.885718+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 18:27:23.134945+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: szgGuUz739s
credit:
  Recorded on 02.09.2023 at the Ball of "The Scottish Country Dancers of Hamburg" at the Volkshaus Berne.


created: 2013-08-18 10:55:49.963744+00
last_modified: 2023-09-05 22:34:41.072262+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: vTgQ5QXQwak
credit: Unigarka
comment:
  There are a few differences from the original instructions: 1st couple are on the opposite side for double triangles and diagonal reels so they enter the reels across the opposite way and skip the final turn.


created: 2019-01-09 15:51:32.83233+00
last_modified: 2019-10-23 16:08:33.476094+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: V67zBRPkwoo
comment:
  John Drewry's instructions for bars 17-24 say 1st couple dance up crossing over to second place on own side to dance reels of three on the sides with 2nd and 3rd couples. 2nd couple dance in and down and 3rd couple dance down and out to enter the reels. In this demonstration 3rd couple are dancing out and up each time for this reel.


created: 2023-09-06 12:02:49.971817+00
last_modified: 2023-09-06 12:03:57.57027+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: mJ6ZwqZ6mB0
credit: Red Thistle Dancers, 2023
comment:
  Once through as the middle part of a longer demo with all 4 couples dances.

  The instructions have turning right hand in bars 13-16 but here the dancers turn both hands.


created: 2023-09-06 12:20:00.567278+00
last_modified: 2023-09-06 12:20:01.812501+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: G12w5YmiSqU
credit: Red Thistle Dancers, 2023
comment:
  Once through as the middle part of a longer demo.

  The intructions have all setting twice in bars 17-20 but here the team have replaced that by back to back (hence only graded as "reasonable").


created: 2019-09-04 21:19:47.071379+00
last_modified: 2023-09-09 19:52:56.261757+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: 2BcZK9ekSeE
credit: Kuckucksnest, Germany, November course 2018.
comment:
  Quite a few errors, especially at the start, but gets better towards the end and the last repeat is good.


created: 2020-05-04 20:04:23.878372+00
last_modified: 2023-09-11 23:18:35.093129+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: xwmoMop-Ycc
credit: Murrough Landon, 2020
comment:
  Once through in a blend of 6 solo performances. More walked than danced for reasons given at the end of the video. The dancing starts about 20 seconds in after rather lengthy opening titles. There is more information in the closing titles and the comments on youtube.


created: 2018-09-25 10:02:18.499358+00
last_modified: 2023-09-11 23:20:49.768305+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: eWbZAlVlSLw
credit: London Gay Gordons and friends, 2018.
comment:
  One missed cast into the reels on the last repeat and a few hesitations and false starts here and there but otherwise no choreographic errors.


created: 2019-08-28 16:03:28.179064+00
last_modified: 2023-09-11 23:23:14.429032+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: KWOOiGPy6ew
credit: London Gay Gordons and friends, 2019.
comment:
  This video shows the original version. The now preferred version ends with a standard diamond poussette on the last repeat so the final 1st and 3rd couples end facing their new partners.


created: 2019-06-29 16:17:26.119351+00
last_modified: 2023-09-11 23:23:50.572962+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 3FUwuafrBl0
credit: London Gay Gordons and friends, 2019.
comment:
  The phrasing of the "through the mirror" rondels of bars 25-32 is better in the bottom half of the set for the first two repeats (with arches on bar 4 of the figure).


created: 2018-09-25 09:55:36.87433+00
last_modified: 2023-09-11 23:27:14.920336+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: _5-RxCukM2o
credit: London Gay Gordons and friends, 2018.
comment:
  Once through.
  Unfortunately the camera was too close so several loops of the reels are out of view.
  In bars 37-40 the 2nd corners should have half turned with the right hand not the left hand.


created: 2018-07-19 09:21:41.366374+00
last_modified: 2023-09-11 23:32:10.761705+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: iLxsD-JVWLE
credit: Gay Gordons at Cober Hill, 2018.
comment:
  Some hesitations, variable phrasing and a little confusion in the schiehallion reels, but otherwise OK.

  For teaching purposes the recording used for the danced was slowed down slightly.


created: 2019-06-29 16:42:31.946156+00
last_modified: 2023-09-12 08:02:02.167243+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: QStbW666a_M
credit: London Gay Gordons and friends, 2019.
comment:
  There is one wrong shoulder pass in bars 9-12 of the 4th repeat. Ideally on bar 40 the women should slip into place rather than turn in.


created: 2013-09-25 09:54:17.422923+00
last_modified: 2023-10-26 23:02:46.560368+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: 9ZDUBdZz8lg
comment:
  St. Andrew's Day Ceilidh, Budapest, 2012
  Performed by the Budapest Scottish Dance Club
  Three couple set. 1C & 3C change places on [31-32].


  Was Good, now unavailable.


created: 2019-06-04 18:24:52.984306+00
last_modified: 2023-09-11 23:37:13.155054+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: -y9nBD0wjz8
credit: London Gay Gordons and friends, 2019.
comment:
  This is a three couple version of an originally five couple dance (<<ddd:DAVID#18053>>) fading out the recording after three times through...


created: 2019-09-17 20:34:36.366284+00
last_modified: 2023-09-11 23:54:42.679119+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 0cuvjYom8o8
credit: Gleneagles SCD Club, 2019.
comment:
  In bars 13-16 the 1st couple here consistently dance up between 3rd couple. However the instructions are that 1st couple cast up behind 3rd couple which is still the deviser's preference.


created: 2019-08-28 16:19:08.254405+00
last_modified: 2023-09-12 08:28:34.684152+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: pdZa7nNqEq8
credit: London Gay Gordons and friends, 2019.
comment:
  Choreographically correct - albeit with some hesitations and a litle raggedness in the extended espagnole of bars 1-8.


created: 2016-06-11 17:48:17.69698+00
last_modified: 2023-09-12 08:36:31.927138+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 1-UBSFKRDzU
credit: Gay Gordons at Laurieston, 2016.
comment:
  Rehearsing for a demo. The first 24 bars of each repeat are mostly choreographically correct with a few hesitations, the last 8 bars still mostly had some problems of phrasing and precedence.

  This video was taken when the dance was intended as a reel. Subsequently it has been changed to be a jig.


created: 2016-03-01 10:53:26.277874+00
last_modified: 2023-09-12 08:42:41.330246+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: iuW033jkTkU
credit: Gay Gordons at Laurieston, 2015.
comment:
  A rehearsal for a subsequent demo. Some infelicities of phrasing and position were still being worked out. There is one classic, but recovered, "where on earth am I supposed to be now" moment in the second time through. Otherwise its choreographically correct, while still showing the pitfalls of a fairly challenging dance.


created: 2018-12-23 12:34:15.997809+00
last_modified: 2023-09-12 08:43:47.626793+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 1o4DQNgel1A
credit: London Gay Gordons and friends, 2019.
comment:
  Choreographically fine but 3rd & 2nd women should dance towards each other to face in and then turn away at the end of bar 4 (a reflected pattern). In the first repeat 2nd woman (white top) does this and in the 2nd repeat the new 3rd woman (dark blue top) also does this as intended.


created: 2019-03-14 23:38:25.654194+00
last_modified: 2023-09-12 09:30:21.067406+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 78c7LHMKwn0
credit: Turnham Green Dancers, 2019
comment:
  On the last two bars of each time through the dance, 2nd man and 3rd woman both have a polite turn.  Occasionally in this video the polite turn is omitted.

  Although this is a 3 couple dance, the instructions encourage 1st couple to repeat the first 4 bars after their second time to end in 4th place and also suggest that optionally the 3rd & 4th couples can do that at the start which is done here.


created: 2020-06-06 22:39:48.081198+00
last_modified: 2023-09-12 09:38:15.156799+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: Te5QNFD8s48
credit: Murrough Landon, 2020.
comment:
  Once through in a blend of 8 solo performances. More walked than danced for reasons given at the end of the video. The dancing starts about 20 seconds in after rather lengthy opening titles. There is more information in the comments on youtube.


created: 2013-08-18 10:55:19.703684+00
last_modified: 2023-09-13 09:35:21.059269+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: sTDbHXyTP0c
credit: Western Washington University SCD Club, 2007 Highland Games.
comment:
  Danced in two 3 couple sets, adding the extra progression by modifying the last 4 bars for each gender.

  This clip shows two full repeats (the video starts part way through one repeat).


created: 2013-08-18 10:55:19.74134+00
last_modified: 2023-09-12 16:42:24.793405+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: aX0CflUKGwg
credit: MacLennan Scottish Group, Bromley, 2012.
comment:
  Good dancing, but sets not in view fully, and too many sets and too low viewpoint to see the formations properly.


created: 2017-12-19 12:15:04.220465+00
last_modified: 2023-10-05 20:00:26.376835+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: vKzIiAE9rJ8
credit: London Gay Gordons, Chiswick and Richmond groups, 2017.
comment:
  A blend of the first two attempts at a challenging new dance: generally good but also displaying various potential pitfalls.
  There are some missed casts and startled turns, a late entry into the central circle in the 2nd repeat and wrong order into a chase in the 4th repeat (neatly corrected at the end of the circle).
  The last repeat is best viewed as a surprising recovery from a momentary lapse and also shows the classic error of birling too long to end back on the sidelines.


created: 2017-10-20 22:08:02.92313+00
last_modified: 2023-10-05 20:02:18.916792+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: IDETufyo_uU
credit: London Gay Gordons, Epping Forest & Richmond groups, 2017.
comment:
  View from the top of the set.
  The couples mostly pass left shoulder into promenade hold at the end of the half reels of 4 in bars 13-16.
  This flows well ("Mairi's Divorce" style) but the original intention was for them to make the final right shoulder pass on bar 16 which is only done during the 3rd repeat.


created: 2017-10-20 22:10:10.981424+00
last_modified: 2023-10-05 20:03:39.404717+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: o7KjgAwCtVc
credit: London Gay Gordon, Epping Forest and Richmond groups, 2017.
comment:
  View from the top of the set (in a trapezoidal room).
  Choreographically fine albeit with a few hesitations.

  This video was filmed using the recording Tribute to Drummond Cook by Colin Dewar.
  Subsequently a tune (<<ddt:Confiture Maison>>) was composed for the dance by Marian Anderson.


created: 2017-06-12 22:26:35.814122+00
last_modified: 2023-10-05 20:05:19.819019+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: IFMXKIQo5-U
credit: Gay Gordons at Sedbergh, 2017.
comment:
  View from the bottom of this Gay Gordons set with a deliberate choice of all possible gender combinations dancing together: M+M, W+W, M+W, W+M. Those dancing as men start on the left. Basically correct albeit with a few extra turns and quickly corrected false starts.


created: 2016-06-11 17:42:05.544888+00
last_modified: 2023-10-05 20:07:21.49413+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: Hw2fJJ5mKVQ
credit: Gay Gordons at Laurieston, 2016.
comment:
  Volunteers testing the dance: the schiehallion reels suffered a bit from phrasing and lack of space, but the first part of the dance is fairly clear with few errors.


created: 2017-06-12 22:24:05.343469+00
last_modified: 2023-10-05 20:08:04.519301+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: AyDoO7lFP9o
credit: Gay Gordons at Sedbergh, 2017.
comment:
  View from the bottom of the set. Those dancing as men are wearing bands. Things start to go wrong towards the end of the 2nd repeat and the rest is faded out to spare further blushes.


created: 2023-09-13 17:03:56.952411+00
last_modified: 2023-09-14 21:58:09.626993+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: uQ3GXvU6cRY
credit: Celtic Society SUSCDF demonstration, taught by Lucy Phillips and Thomas Rintoul
comment:
  This is a demonstration done at SUSCDF with fairly new dancers at Celtic Society, University of St Andrews.

  Once through with excellent dancing but not quite the original music!


created: 2023-09-13 17:06:41.712669+00
last_modified: 2023-09-14 22:02:41.412081+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: uQ3GXvU6cRY
credit: Celtic Society SUSCDF demonstration, taught by Lucy Phillips and Thomas Rintoul
comment:
  This is a demonstration done at SUSCDF with fairly new dancers at Celtic Society, University of St Andrews. The Rights and Lefts at the end were modified to fit with the choreography of the demonstration. Also the circle at the start here involves all three couples, not just 1st and 2nd as expected.


created: 2022-08-01 21:52:26.74866+00
last_modified: 2023-09-17 21:09:41.859581+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: zhRfKQFUf5k
credit: Port Adelaide Caledonian Society: Birthday Celebration 2011
comment:
  Twice through as the second part of a longer demo. This is the best video of this dance but is unfortunately only viewable directly on the youtube site. The Kilt Maker starts at 1:12 into the video.


created: 2023-09-13 17:10:29.62226+00
last_modified: 2023-09-14 22:06:49.167098+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: uQ3GXvU6cRY
credit: Celtic Society SUSCDF demonstration, taught by Lucy Phillips and Thomas Rintoul
comment:
  This is a demonstration done at SUSCDF with fairly new dancers at Celtic Society, University of St Andrews. Hands across at the start of the dance omitted to fit with choreography of the demonstration. 

  2 five couple sets with 2 shared people. Excellent dancing but significantly modified from the original.


created: 2023-09-13 17:24:07.935322+00
last_modified: 2023-09-14 22:15:53.845876+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: FOw7XeeI3Ss
credit: Celtic Soc Class
comment:
  There is a missing person in each set, but still gives a reasonable impression to how the dance goes.


created: 2023-09-20 12:10:38.541712+00
last_modified: 2023-09-20 12:10:39.804261+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: opiq44WPZlg
credit: Lochiel Club, Hamilton, NZ, 2023
comment:
  This video shows the revised version of the dance, mainly affecting bars 9-16. Also only 1st couple turn at the end.


created: 2022-12-12 09:37:38.181472+00
last_modified: 2023-09-30 11:14:59.216955+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 482EAyL_qwc
credit: Rechberg Scottish Dancers, 2022.
comment:
  The challenge comes from the frequent changing of feet and is where most mistakes occured.
  The Rechberg dancers learnt both the Waltz Hold Poussette and Dances on the morning of the video. 
  PDB is used not SCS.

  The dancers here do both the half circles in bars 1-8 to the left whereas in the instructions the second one is "repeat to the right".


created: 2017-09-04 09:41:26.525029+00
last_modified: 2023-10-01 08:26:09.106989+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: yScKjwa2xYk
credit: Vancouver RSCDS Dem Team, 2014.
comment:
  Once through excerpt from a demonstration medley with two sets joined at 1st couple.

  Excellent dancing, though there are two modifications to the dance:
  (1) on bars 1-2 the two 1st couples join hands to set together instead of singly;
  (2) on bars 33-36 the 2nd and 3rd couples continue to set advancing through the other set instead of finishing at the top of their own set.


created: 2023-10-01 08:44:47.419393+00
last_modified: 2023-10-01 08:57:12.459134+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: DrAzrOWQsdE
credit: Tartan Day Tattoo Celebration, NZ 2016.
comment:
  Once through as the last part of a longer demo. The initial long cast is abbreviated and the final half figures of eight are changed to set and cross. The camera view is switching between the many sets.


created: 2023-09-30 22:30:02.384413+00
last_modified: 2023-10-01 10:02:10.317156+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: NPme50HGimM
credit: Demonstration at the President's Ball, RSCDS NZ Branch Summer School 2011 in Masterton.
comment:
  Music by George Meikle and Graham Berry. Dancers are Liam Beaumont and Briege Kelly, Andrew and Liz Douglas. Andrew Goss and Helen Wyeth


created: 2023-10-03 10:00:11.386832+00
last_modified: 2023-10-03 10:07:53.637206+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: HcjLr0F0RJk
credit: Cambridge University Strathspey & Reel Club, 2023.
comment:
  Excellent dancing twice through as the first part of a longer demo. It is shown here in two back to back sets, with the 1st couples in the centre, but does not use the original tune. The final diagonal R&L is adapted to lead in to the next dance in the medley.


created: 2023-10-03 10:15:37.566449+00
last_modified: 2023-10-03 10:28:01.899756+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: HcjLr0F0RJk
credit: Cambridge University Strathspey & Reel Club, 2023.
comment:
  Twice through as the middle part of a longer display. Excellent dancing albeit with one or two missed shoulder passes and false starts.


created: 2023-10-03 10:27:26.905624+00
last_modified: 2023-10-03 10:33:34.995388+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: HcjLr0F0RJk
credit: Cambridge University Strathspey & Reel Club, 2023.
comment:
  Twice through as the last part of a longer demo (3rd and 4th couples already on opposite sides). Excellent and exuberant performance though not using the recommended tune.


created: 2017-10-20 22:02:58.985225+00
last_modified: 2023-10-05 20:04:28.130275+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: aG_WnlIazKI
credit: London Gay Gordons, Epping Forest & Richmond groups, 2017.
comment:
  View from the top of the set.
  There is one overturn into the reel of 4 in the 1st repeat (neatly recovered 8 bars later) and one missed entry into the chase.


created: 2012-12-17 14:18:22.098637+00
last_modified: 2023-10-13 11:39:28.557939+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: ILZ8J12lEnc
credit: RSCDS Manchester Annual Ball, 2011.
comment:
  A bit dark, taken from the floor.  Mostly well danced with a few glitches.  Can be followed fairly well.  Speed and flourish.


created: 2023-10-14 17:05:20.038631+00
last_modified: 2023-10-14 19:12:50.75488+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: oB7Btjy4HMI
credit: Kyleside Belvedere Strathspey
comment:
  40 bar strathspey for three couples in a longwise set.  Dance devised by Jill Burrows for the tune 'Kyleside Belvedere Strathspey' composed by Ewan Galloway and recorded on the CD 'Ewan Galloway, The Grove Collection of Scottish Country Dances, Volume 2'


created: 2023-10-16 01:10:31.11879+00
last_modified: 2023-10-16 08:30:31.464744+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: iuhbXqjto4o
credit:
  Montreal beginners workshop October 7, 2023. Peter Macfarlane and Aaron Marcus playing. (Tune Holly’s Big Day by Laura Risk)


created: 2023-10-16 01:15:52.892986+00
last_modified: 2023-10-16 09:07:01.236614+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: K-lG6SZtm2g
credit: Montreal beginners social October 7, 2023. Peter Macfarlane and Aaron Marcus playing.
comment:
  Here done in a 4 couple set on one side of the room and 2 3 couples sets on the other side so slightly different choreography - 2 4 hands round in the 4C set and 6 hands round in the 3C sets.  Some creative chases.
  <p/>
  This clip shows the last two repeats with the camera primarily on the 4C set. The first part of the whole video shows more of the 3C sets.


created: 2023-10-16 08:46:16.982647+00
last_modified: 2023-10-17 11:53:47.142759+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: Rv0RL_rhmV0
credit: RSCDS Paris Branch Autumn WE 2023 - Recorded at the Saturday evening dance.
comment:
  View from the top.


  In the Rosette the half turns are here done with both hands whereas the instructions say right hands.


created: 2023-10-16 08:47:16.073054+00
last_modified: 2023-10-17 11:52:34.496236+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: MJU-jRgnAwc
credit: RSCDS Paris Branch Autumn WE 2023 - Recorded at the Saturday evening dance.
comment:
  View from the Bottom or the side of the set.


  In the Rosette the half turns are here done with both hands whereas the instructions say right hands.


created: 2023-10-16 08:42:29.249961+00
last_modified: 2023-10-17 15:02:10.040576+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: wwHmTfxlqwk
credit:
  RSCDS Paris Branch Autumn WE 2023 - Recorded during the Saturday afternoon class, taught by the dance deviser Jim Stott


created: 2023-10-18 16:54:03.447514+00
last_modified: 2023-10-18 17:46:24.592879+00
quality: C
comment: Here done in a 7 couple set. A few glitches at the beginning, getting much better later.
source: Y
external: BRTSlB67zsw
credit:
  Done at the Montreal Beginner's Workshop/Social - one of the 2 advanced dances on the program.  Peter Macfarlane and Aaron Marcus playing.


created: 2018-08-21 16:06:06.575456+00
last_modified: 2023-10-24 01:24:08.043317+00
quality: C
source: V
external: 215773249
comment:
  This display shows some serious errors, such as not making clear facing lines across on bars 8, 16 and 20. Much of the charm of the dance is lost.  Do not use it to learn the dance.  Eric Ferguson, editor


created: 2022-05-25 13:33:33.520761+00
last_modified: 2023-10-26 23:08:14.446482+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 8ujAn0ejZHA
credit: Thistle Scottish Country Dancers, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2022.
comment:
  Spark O’ Water is a Scottish Country Dance devised by Duncan and Maggie Keppie. The dance was first published in Haliburton School of the Arts SCD Book #3, then reprinted in Spark O’ Water, Dances of Nova Scotia in 2017. Muriel Johnstone composed the tunes: Mira River; Eric’s Return to Tine; The Iceberg; Anne Carter’s Fancy. The dance was performed by the Thistle Scottish Country Dancers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May 2022.


created: 2023-10-25 19:35:39.180898+00
last_modified: 2023-10-30 10:24:46.551139+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: 7WkDuvjKHFg
credit: London Highland Club Centenary Ball 2023
comment:
  Requested to be replaced in the original comment on video 3 ("Sorry to request this second addition but the use of the club logos in the previous version was not approved once it was seen by a wider group so I have changed the opening and closing credits. regards Andrew").


created: 2023-11-02 03:05:37.32387+00
last_modified: 2023-11-02 09:13:00.613366+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 21FsJD22MqY
credit: Heidelberg Halloween Ball 2023
comment:
  "Humberstone's Magic Piano" (SCDDB: 3009), a 4x32 Strathspey devised by John W. Mitchell, taken from "The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, Number 23"

  DANCERS
  Participants of the Heidelberg Halloween Ball 2023 "The Witching Hour"

  Video recorded by Steff Eckert, 28 Oct 2023
  @Bürgerzentrum Heidelberg-Kirchheim

  COMMENTS
  The video shows the last two repeats of the encore. Another video showing the last repeat of the first pass is available here:
  https://youtu.be/LWOsuWqatIY


created: 2023-10-27 14:59:42.902199+00
last_modified: 2023-10-30 10:47:28.620448+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 5xpEr6p8NjQ
credit: scotbordersdancers 2023.
comment:
  Complete dance.
  Danced by scotbordersdancers.
  Music - any good strathspey but suggested music is a Set of Strathspeys by Muriel Johnstone


created: 2023-11-02 09:31:53.232057+00
last_modified: 2023-11-02 09:31:54.836824+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: Ab48hVzjc1I
credit: Tam O'Shanter SCD Club, 2023.
comment:
  This clip shows the dancing. The whole video starts with a detailed walk through and explanation of the figures.


created: 2023-10-31 03:05:37.399002+00
last_modified: 2023-11-06 22:32:44.880269+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: LWOsuWqatIY
comment:
  "Humberstone's Magic Piano" (SCDDB: 3009), a 4x32 Strathspey devised by John W. Mitchell, taken from "The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, Number 23"

  DANCERS
  Participants of the Heidelberg Halloween Ball 2023 "The Witching Hour"

  Video recorded by Viktor Lehmann, 28 Oct 2023
  @Bürgerzentrum Heidelberg-Kirchheim

  COMMENTS
  The video shows the last repeat of the dance. A second video showing the last two repeats of the encore will be available soon too.


created: 2023-11-15 23:11:57.369562+00
last_modified: 2023-11-15 23:11:58.665696+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: KsjAHEkIiHs
credit: Newark SCD Society, 2023 ASCDS Festival
comment:
  Twice through in a modified version as the last part of a long demo.

  In this rendition the circle of bars 17-24 and promenade of bars 41-48 are swapped round. And the top couple never casts off to the bottom.


created: 2023-11-27 03:05:30.062042+00
last_modified: 2023-11-27 03:05:30.062042+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: cTvoBOWcxj8
comment:
  "Petronella Reloaded" (SCDDB: 21690), a 3x32 Reel, devised by Jona Kutsche & Viktor Lehmann. Dancers: Caro Schmitt, Emma Sellke, Viona Schweers, Viktor Lehmann, Jarla Kutsche, Jona Kutsche. Thanks to Wolfgang Kutsche for recording, 24 November 2023, Kuckucksnest Schlüchtern.

  This dance is dedicated to Andrew Nolan who - during November Course 2023 at the Kuckucksnest in Schlüchtern, Germany - gave us an overview on how „Petronella“ developed over time. We felt it was time for the next level. This dance comes as a canon, with second couple being two bars behind the other couples throughout most of the dance.

  Full dance description can be found here: 
  https://www.scd-germany.de/en/scottish-dancing-in-germany/publications/

  Minicrib version can be found in the SCD Dance Database (SCDDB):
  https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/21690/

  Follow me on YouTube for more SCD Videos:
  https://www.youtube.com/@viktorlehmann


created: 2023-11-27 03:05:30.178125+00
last_modified: 2023-11-27 17:16:11.636642+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: k7f0Et0wFmc
comment:
  "The Fairy Godmother" (SCDDB: 21685), a 4x32 Reel, devised by Viktor Lehmann. Dancers: Klaus Mettler, Ruth Egger, Agnes Heim, Franz Irsigler, Petra Abl, Siegfried Walz, Wiebke Ehlen Lüdtke, Gudula Ringe. Video recorded by Viktor Lehmann, 19 Nov 2023, SCD Weekend Chemnitz, Pockau.

  This dance is dedicated to Linda Harley Gillespie for being the "Fairy Godmother" to our Summer School Week 4 Dem Team.

  Full dance description can be found here: 
  https://www.scd-germany.de/en/scottish-dancing-in-germany/publications/

  Minicrib version can be found in the SCD Dance Database (SCDDB):
  https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/21685/

  Follow me on YouTube for more SCD Videos:
  https://www.youtube.com/@viktorlehmann


created: 2023-11-27 03:05:30.194325+00
last_modified: 2023-11-27 17:17:11.854418+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: sOVlGcN5tOY
comment:
  "The Fairy Godmother" - Diagram View (SCDDB: 21685), a 4x32 Reel, devised by Viktor Lehmann. Dancers: Klaus Mettler, Ruth Egger, Agnes Heim, Franz Irsigler, Petra Abl, Siegfried Walz, Wiebke Ehlen Lüdtke, Gudula Ringe. Video recorded by Brigitte Irsigler, 19 Nov 2023, SCD Weekend Chemnitz, Pockau.

  This dance is dedicated to Linda Harley Gillespie for being the "Fairy Godmother" to our Summer School Week 4 Dem Team.

  Full dance description can be found here: 
  https://www.scd-germany.de/en/scottish-dancing-in-germany/publications/

  Minicrib version can be found in the SCD Dance Database (SCDDB):
  https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/21685/

  Follow me on YouTube for more SCD Videos:
  https://www.youtube.com/@viktorlehmann


created: 2023-11-25 18:07:42.928603+00
last_modified: 2023-11-27 22:55:04.902684+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: GXMeMBBnbeo
comment:
  An exuberant dance, featuring the distinctive arches figure of Postie's Jig, ending with eight hands around.

credit:
  From a social dance at Arden Gild Hall, Arden, DE, USA, November 2023. Musicians are Becky Ross (fiddle) and Liz Donaldson (piano), playing "Inver Lasses."


created: 2023-11-29 09:20:14.995003+00
last_modified: 2023-11-29 10:46:23.895309+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: csuoLxohUyI
credit: Danced as a jig by members of the Grantham U3A Scottish Dancers
comment:
  Dick Whittington is a 32 bar dance devised by Chris Ronald for 3 couples in a 4 couple set; it can be danced as a jig, reel or strathspey. This video shows it danced as a jig by members of the Grantham U3A Scottish Dancers during the week of St Andrews Day (hence the kilts!). Music from Jim Lindsay and his Scottish Dance Band.


created: 2023-12-02 03:05:27.661447+00
last_modified: 2023-12-02 03:05:27.661447+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: ZPWVkl1RBPo
comment:
  "Lads O'Dunse" (SCDDB: 3582), a 8x32 Jig devised by John W. Mitchell, taken from "The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, Number 8"

  DANCERS
  Daniela Kneidl, Franz Irsigler, Christine Bratfisch, Holger Schuckelt,
  Agnes Heim, Maeve Kraume, Andrea Dög, Klaus Mettler

  CLASS TEACHER
  Viktor Lehmann

  Video recorded by Viktor Lehmann, 18 Nov 2023, SCD Weekend Chemnitz, Pockau

  COMMENTS
  This video shows the first six repeats of the dance. The central figure comes with "Corners pass and turn (right round)", followed by "Corners pass and turn (left round)" shortly afterwards.


created: 2023-11-30 15:18:01.041108+00
last_modified: 2023-12-03 20:46:09.056634+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: FhqVrHRsBIY
credit: scotbordersdancers 23 11 2023
comment:
  Complete dance.
  Suggested music: September in Skye played by Marian Anderson.


  The instructions have the corners curving into place after the 2nd half reel of 25-28 which is not always done here.


created: 2023-12-02 03:05:27.627769+00
last_modified: 2023-12-02 03:05:27.627769+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: bfuPRKY74vE
comment:
  "Saddle the Pony" (SCDDB: 5787), a 8x32 Jig devised by John W. Mitchell, taken from "The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, Number 3"

  DANCERS
  Gudula Ringe, Siegfried Walz, Heike Ullrich, Christine Bratfisch,
  Petra Abl, Andrea Dög, Brigitte Irsigler, Franz Irsigler

  CLASS MUSICIAN
  Silke Grosholz

  CLASS TEACHER
  Viktor Lehmann

  Video recorded by Viktor Lehmann, 19 Nov 2023, SCD Weekend Chemnitz, Pockau

  COMMENTS
  This video shows the first two repeats of the dance.


created: 2023-12-02 11:17:32.858819+00
last_modified: 2023-12-02 11:17:34.161781+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: PRyJ--Gi5Nc
credit: Kuckucksnest November course 2023.
comment:
  A good display of the choreography with a couple of hesitations and without one hoped for swirl at bar 16.


created: 2023-12-04 10:58:21.58275+00
last_modified: 2023-12-04 11:04:53.41812+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: VfxEiF5rT2A
credit: Caledonian Club Czech Republic, 2023.
comment:
  Three times through. Excellent, though the outer dancers are turning left hand at the very end (which looks very natural after an anticlockwise chase) whereas the instructions have right hand.


created: 2023-12-05 08:32:43.950254+00
last_modified: 2023-12-05 09:27:28.970385+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: dGw4H3PzywA
credit:
  Recorded at a class during the ZSCDC Scottish Dance WE on 02.12.2023 in Rappertwil/Jona (Switzerland).


created: 2023-12-05 09:34:04.670318+00
last_modified: 2023-12-05 09:34:05.993304+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: EXFZe4Hjrlg
credit: RSCDS Lyon, 2018.
comment:
  Four times through. Excellent dancing though here without some of the suggested details such as keeping right hands and tapping shoulders.


created: 2019-03-09 10:16:36.889006+00
last_modified: 2023-12-05 09:35:33.416534+00
quality: Z
source: V
external: 290437657
comment:
  Danced by RSCDS Lyon Branch, 2018.
  1st couple should retain hands throughout bars 9-18 and tap partner on shoulder in bars 19 and 27.

  Was Good, now seems unavailable on Vimeo.


created: 2012-12-17 14:19:03.410138+00
last_modified: 2012-12-20 22:24:34.203783+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: BaYMGDpTYMM
comment:
  Demonstration, danced three times through in two 3C sets.  First time in standard version (1C only for bars 1-24).  Second time 2C joins in for bars 3-16.  Third time 2C+3C join in for bars 3-16, dancing the petronellas in tandem, and finishing with a a 3C poussette.


created: 2012-12-17 14:19:03.383923+00
last_modified: 2012-12-20 23:29:06.662982+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: Jo7NU21GYpc
comment:
  Danced 3 tines through in a 2C set.  First time 1C only for bars 1-24.  Second time 2C joins in for bars 3-16.  Third time all dance together using "Petronella in tandem".


created: 2020-07-12 16:27:11.892051+00
last_modified: 2020-07-12 16:50:40.338427+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 6fsLWYwK-VQ
comment:
  Twice through as the last part of a longer demonstration. The first repeat is standard, the second has both couples dancing throughout. The complete demonstration then ends with circles.


created: 2020-04-25 18:31:51.961838+00
last_modified: 2023-12-05 11:53:06.289195+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: HzUW7ROXKOE
comment:
  Demonstration in a 2 couple set of (1) the standard version with 1st couple only (2) with 1st and 2nd couples dancing in tandem and (3) both couples dancing in a diamond. NB there is no sound for part of the 2nd time through.


created: 2023-12-08 01:12:13.574823+00
last_modified: 2023-12-10 09:29:36.143454+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: q1qNY1l5w6Q
credit: Danced as a reel by members of the Waltham Scottish Country Dance Group.
comment:
  Hello-goodbye is a 32 bar dance devised by Chris Ronald for 3 couples in a 4 couple set; it can be danced as a jig, reel or strathspey. It introduces new dancers to the formation Set to Corners and Partner, commonly referred to as Hello-Goodbye setting. This video shows it danced as a reel by members of the Waltham Scottish Country Dance Group. The video shows the first three repetitions of the dance. Music from Jim Lindsay and his Scottish Dance Band.


created: 2023-12-10 18:50:16.736497+00
last_modified: 2023-12-10 18:50:18.13864+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 16EW-DJxWZ8
credit: Deer O'Dale Dance School in Ufa, Russia, 2019.
comment:
  Some very good dancing, starting at bar 9. However the camera is moving around and sets are only partly in view so this is not that useful for following the dance.


created: 2023-12-07 10:38:22.548595+00
last_modified: 2023-12-10 09:40:33.949283+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: rA7fxiv9pbk
credit: RSCDS Cornwall Branch
comment:
  One of 12 dances from the book "Cornish Hospitality" which are Scottish dances with a Cornish connection


created: 2023-12-07 10:36:24.518753+00
last_modified: 2023-12-10 09:41:10.411308+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: n7pACy6kNTk
credit: RSCDS Cornwall Branch
comment:
  One of 12 dances from the book "Cornish Hosptality" which contains Scottish dances  with a Cornish connection


created: 2023-12-14 09:31:17.265859+00
last_modified: 2023-12-14 09:31:18.553886+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: qLogAZirmRQ
credit: Méaudre Reel, 2023.
comment:
  Sophie and Lise Marchand demonstrating a waltz sequence frequently taught by SCD dance deviser Martin Sheffield.


created: 2013-02-10 23:07:02.76663+00
last_modified: 2023-12-16 00:04:14.922326+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: UeAp5-Byi24
credit: Artforge (Petrozavodsk, Russia), 2008.
comment:
  The formations Rights and Lefts [17-24] and Ladies Chain [25-32] have been switched around.  On [33-40] all turns are done with the wrong hand, so that the men face in when setting, and also the phrasing is poor  The demo goes twice through with a good view, the third time the camera pans around; the 4th time is cut off short.

  This was recorded on Feb. 3rd, 2008, probably at a Festival Interceltique of Lorient, the dancers could be from Russia. It was uploaded to Youtube on Feb 6, 2008.


created: 2023-12-19 19:35:40.276442+00
last_modified: 2023-12-19 19:35:41.580277+00
quality: X
source: Y
external: 4v-K64L-R30
credit: George Williams
comment:
  Dance Animation by George Williams. NB men are rectangles and women ovals.

  This video does not show the intruders joining the hands across or reels.


created: 2023-12-20 22:41:48.636288+00
last_modified: 2023-12-20 23:15:45.61048+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: Y7a7NsytMYY
credit: OUSDS dancing to music by Tartan Suite, Oct 2023
comment:
  Dancers from Oxford University Scottish Dance Society dancing to the original music recorded by Tartan Suite https://www.tartansuiteband.com


created: 2024-01-05 12:50:32.274779+00
last_modified: 2024-01-05 12:50:33.495793+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: NiGLvNa-y70
credit: Tam O'Shanter SCD Club, 2018.
comment:
  This clip just shows the dancing. The whole video starts with an introduction.

  Generally danced well though there appear to be some issues with the novel double (tandem) tournée figure.


created: 2017-06-29 22:05:21.286384+00
last_modified: 2024-01-10 11:11:46.049082+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: bwLS5Gqd13o
comment:
  Braes of Atholl performed by the Berkeley CA adjudication Team at the Pleasanton Highland Games 2012, led by Bruce Herbold the dancers are Greg Wilcox, Madge Tsang, Gary Knox, Witsie MacElvey, Bex Clark, Amanda Whitehead, Paula Buell and Jane Samuelson.

  Was Reasonable, now private on youtube (and Bruce, the uploader, cannot find it again).


created: 2012-07-22 19:03:00.851755+00
last_modified: 2024-01-13 10:27:43.016441+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: OlT6md-1FlY
credit: Youth Display, Auckland, 2011.
comment:
  This is part of a demonstration of many linked dances, adapted for the occasion.  The set is a "broadwise set": up/down is at right angles to the length of the set. Once through followed by a transition into the next dance.

  The dancing is of demonstation quality but the team here use highland schottische setting in bars 17-24 rather than the glasgow highlanders setting step which is specific to this dance.


created: 2019-11-01 22:04:40.084404+00
last_modified: 2024-01-18 12:16:56.912679+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 2mDwELTZxf8
credit: Red Thistle Dancers, Pleasanton Games, 2000.
comment:
  Twice through as part of a longer demo. Danced once each couple in a 3 couple set, as if for their 2nd repeat.


created: 2024-01-18 12:21:41.082337+00
last_modified: 2024-01-18 12:28:03.295937+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 6NpvwWl5J7Y
credit: Red Thistle Dancers, 2001.
comment:
  Twice through in a 3 couple set as the first part of a longer demo. 1st and 3rd couples turn one and a half to the bottom each time.


created: 2024-01-19 18:41:12.100531+00
last_modified: 2024-01-20 13:10:18.820666+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 6HM4G2sh-TI
credit:
  San Francisco Class in January 2024 getting ready for the Valentine's Ball. Lead couple is Lisa Fromer and Tim Wilson


created: 2024-01-20 17:44:44.397368+00
last_modified: 2024-01-20 18:23:40.699651+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: rZlXYCc7OgU
credit: Montreal A&P class
comment:
  I suggested both couples do set and spring points on bars 25-28 which is not in the original instructions. Video starts on the last 4 bars of the second to last time through.


created: 2024-01-27 13:06:38.499199+00
last_modified: 2024-01-27 16:15:45.939907+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: IErXKCdwQkQ
credit: scotbordersdancers 25 01 2024
comment:
  Complete dance.  
  Lead tune composed by M Cannell remainder Falkirk Bairn by Gordon Shand.
  Some folk may prefer the whole of Falkirk Bairn as it is more accessible than St Ronans 35 Year CD


created: 2022-12-22 17:17:08.409665+00
last_modified: 2024-01-28 10:29:01.767745+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: CKeNpav-Pns
credit: Eglington Assembly dancers, Hamilton Gala Day in 1986
comment:
  The dancing is really demonstration quality but the video quality is unfortunately not nearly of comparable standard so overall graded as Good.

  And now the video seems to be unavailable.


created: 2024-01-28 11:28:36.437884+00
last_modified: 2024-01-28 11:33:22.703541+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: dICR3C8q_NM
credit:
  Part of the International Team display at Newcastle Festival 2011, 6m 58s to 7m 29s.  Video by matchff


created: 2024-01-29 09:40:50.695074+00
last_modified: 2024-01-29 12:07:47.285564+00
quality: D
comment: This was the 1st dance of the evening, and the video shows only part of it.
source: Y
external: 2ncVP67bNFE
credit:
  RSCDS Paris Branch Social on 27.01.2024 at the American Church in Paris - Music by Lindsey Ibbotson with the Paris Band.


created: 2024-02-01 12:33:54.804336+00
last_modified: 2024-02-01 12:46:10.862044+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: dSyy-5TwBrU
credit: Sheffield Caledonian Dance Class, 2018 ASCDS Festival
comment:
  Twice through as the last part of a longer demo. The 2nd time is adapted to end with circles instead of turning partner.


created: 2024-02-01 21:03:58.823803+00
last_modified: 2024-02-01 21:04:00.151294+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: Bb-U1JKc_MQ
credit: Méaudre Reel, 2024.
comment:
  Here the 1st and 2nd couples are dancing both the right and left hands across whereas the instructions have 1st and 3rd couples doing the left hands across. Maybe as an adaptation for a 3 couple set.


created: 2019-04-20 22:21:59.242847+00
last_modified: 2024-02-01 21:34:09.976624+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: Zg5SqyFCjDc
credit: Tay Dancers, 2019.
comment:
  Generally good with one or two minor glitches, eg transition into reels at the start of the 3rd repeat.


created: 2015-05-29 08:07:54.045426+00
last_modified: 2024-02-03 16:03:59.979308+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 7V5lH3A6nVM
credit: Budapest Scottish Dance Club, 2015.
comment:
  This dance was dedicated to the couple (Judit Kerner and Áron Diószegi) who starts the dance as first couple. The deviser (Zoltán Gräff) starts the dance as third man :-)
  Online source: http://bstk.hu/dances/be-my-partner/


created: 2024-02-05 10:34:57.84714+00
last_modified: 2024-02-05 10:34:59.15801+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: iu2kfSmT82U
credit: Naramata Scottish Country Dancers, 2024.
comment:
  This clip starts with the dancing. The video begins with a historical introduction and a couple of walk throughs.


created: 2023-11-15 01:51:48.195176+00
last_modified: 2024-02-06 05:44:48.866036+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: uTT_hgNRrCg
comment:
  The Milwaukee Scottish Country Dancers demonstrate "Joanna's Jig," a 32bar Jig for 2 couples in a round the room setting. Consider the line of dancers at the top of the circle and that we are viewing from the band. That puts the 1C on the left of our view moving CCLW. This video is only two times through the dance.

credit:
  Joanna's Jig, 32J for 2C in a round the room setting: consider the line of dancers of the video at the top of a circle and that one is viewing from the band perspective. That puts the 1C on the left of the view, moving CCLW. This video is only 2x thru.


created: 2020-03-27 19:08:58.70155+00
last_modified: 2024-02-07 23:05:27.784126+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: ZtQtmWM-5fo
credit: RSCDS London, 2018.
comment:
  Twice through, in two back to back sets, as part of a longer demonstration. The last 12 bars of the 2nd repeat are adapted to lead into the next dance in the medley.


created: 2017-01-17 18:15:10.768029+00
last_modified: 2024-02-09 00:07:32.38053+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: AMVhkllL1Co
credit: Newcastle RSCDS, 2012.
comment:
  Once through as part of a longer display. The last 4 bars are adapted to lead into the next dance in the demo.


created: 2024-02-11 18:53:31.953225+00
last_modified: 2024-02-11 19:12:11.944645+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: SLpZi-ar3BM
credit: Kaiviertelfest 2023, Salzburg, Austria
comment:
  For our performance at the Kaiviertelfest 09/2023 we danced it as a medley in a mix of 1x32 bars Strathspey and 1x32 bars Reel. A beautiful dance that is ideal and has proven itself for our small group in Salzburg. Many thanks to the inventor Jane Lataille.


created: 2019-12-17 19:18:45.337832+00
last_modified: 2024-02-11 23:04:36.443776+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 6B1_jezA2Us
credit: Tay Dancers, 2019.
comment:
  In bars 25-28 the original instructions say "1st woman passes 3rd man left shoulder and 2nd man and woman right shoulder. 1st man passes 2nd woman left shoulder and 3rd woman and man right shoulder". Here 1st couple pass all three corner people right shoulder. This looks quite natural but seems not to have been the deviser's intention.


created: 2024-02-11 23:00:24.435225+00
last_modified: 2024-02-12 00:19:55.578615+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: N3WGT724whg
credit: Tom Ward
comment:
  Final "encore" dance for the 2024 Valentine's Ball of the RSCDS San Francisco Branch, held February 10th at the Elks' Lodge in Alameda, California.  Music by Andy Imbrie and David Courret-Knight.


created: 2014-08-26 19:38:16.976028+00
last_modified: 2024-02-12 09:35:34.373156+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: EFQzWk89pI8
comment:
  DemoTeam RSCDS Winter School, 2013.   Clan McBédoin are most grateful to the group who rehearsed this Dance at the RSCDS Winter School 2013, for this first expert performance.

  Was Dem Quality, but now private on youtube.


created: 2016-10-17 23:16:35.015068+00
last_modified: 2024-02-12 16:17:03.473404+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: Y2SNz4oTQwc
credit: Lower Hutt SCD Club, 2015.
comment:
  The Greenbelt Jig, devised by Elaine Brunken, was danced at the Lower Hutt SCD Club's annual dance on September 5, 2015. The dance was held in St Bernard's School gym and the MC was club tutor Damon Collin.

  Balmoral Band comprises Anne-Marie Forsyth, Sharlene Penman and Ian McKenzie.

  Many newer dancers attended this dance, which for many of them was their first formal dance. More experienced dancers partnered them for 'The Greenbelt Jig'.


created: 2024-02-12 14:32:27.841722+00
last_modified: 2024-02-13 11:47:24.031215+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 70p9nuJeOHQ
credit: Saltire SCD at Newcastle 2024. Taught by Thomas Rintoul and Lucy Phillips
comment:
  Saltire SCD at Newcastle 2024. Taught by Thomas Rintoul and Lucy Phillips.

  Winning Ladies Team at the festival.


created: 2018-11-07 22:52:03.397152+00
last_modified: 2024-02-13 13:43:32.477258+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 80_K1-MrpNk
credit: RSCDS Summer School, week 4 demo, 2018.
comment:
  The Ullapool Ferry is the first segment of a medley, recorded at the 2018 RSCDS Summer School.

  This clip shows one repeat of the dance as written. The medley continues with a variation leading into the other dances.


created: 2024-02-12 14:47:03.036259+00
last_modified: 2024-02-13 13:30:32.214901+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: mitMl9JfwNk
comment:
  Once through as part of a longer display. Excellent dancing but with modified last 2 bars - a chase to a new set in a display instead of continued turning for the end of the dance.

credit:
  Saltire SCD display at Newcastle 2024. Taught and choreographed by Thomas Rintoul and Lucy Phillips.


created: 2024-02-12 14:44:18.399308+00
last_modified: 2024-02-13 13:23:22.704254+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: mitMl9JfwNk
comment:
  Once through as part of a longer display. 2 sets dancing this with the first couple as the couples in the middle.

credit:
  Saltire SCD display at Newcastle 2024. Taught and choreographed by Thomas Rintoul and Lucy Phillips.


created: 2024-02-12 14:41:05.004196+00
last_modified: 2024-02-13 13:20:37.569392+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: mitMl9JfwNk
comment:
  Once through a part of a longer display. There are 3 sets here - the middle set has the "top of the set" as the further away couple and the sets on each side has the "top of the set" as the couple nearest the camera.

credit:
  Saltire SCD display at Newcastle 2024. Taught and choreographed by Thomas Rintoul and Lucy Phillips.


created: 2024-02-12 14:37:44.934189+00
last_modified: 2024-02-13 13:27:36.363694+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: mitMl9JfwNk
credit: Saltire SCD display at Newcastle 2024.
comment:
  Saltire SCD display at Newcastle 2024. Taught and choreographed by Thomas Rintoul and Lucy Phillips.

  First part of a longer display. Excellent dancing but here done just once through in reel time only with modified last 4 bars.


created: 2024-02-12 14:53:24.370816+00
last_modified: 2024-02-13 13:39:08.325627+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: mitMl9JfwNk
comment:
  The last part of a longer display. Excellent dancing but the choreography is heavily altered.

  First 12 bars danced as written in a longwise set. Then modified bars 13-16 while bringing in other dancers from the sidelines in a display. 
  Bars 17 onwards danced as written but in 3 x 2cpl sets with diagonal sets.

credit:
[cell repeats an earlier one in this file: 100 characters]


created: 2017-01-20 19:00:20.983744+00
last_modified: 2024-02-13 20:36:08.476042+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: YT_BdUiZAcw
credit: Red Thistle Dancers, 2005.
comment:
  Only once through; part of a large demonstration.
  The last 4 bars all 3 couples circle Left instead off 2c+1c circle Right.


created: 2024-02-13 21:09:10.93577+00
last_modified: 2024-02-13 21:11:52.85012+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: 2ObSt60em2Q
credit:
  Danced by Oxford University Scottish Dance Society with Anna, Jamie, Tiffany, Michael, Alex, Sarah, Lina and Maxi. June 2016


created: 2021-05-13 22:49:47.875014+00
last_modified: 2024-02-15 17:50:29.310893+00
quality: X
source: Y
external: CftqD0Y7qJw
comment:
  (Contrary to standard SCD diagram notation men are represented by rectangles, women as oval-ish shapes)

  In the turn corner partner figure (bars 9-16) the video has a left hand pass in bars 11-12 instead of a one and a quarter turn.


created: 2012-12-17 14:18:59.302698+00
last_modified: 2024-02-15 19:18:30.768548+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: bymcjTD9FFI
credit: Thornhill Scottish Country Dancers, 2008.
comment:
  Once through only (the preceding part of the video starts in the middle of the dance).  Finishes with a 3C Poussette, that ends in a different shape for the next dance of the demonstration.


created: 2012-12-17 14:19:05.711292+00
last_modified: 2024-02-15 19:19:44.65331+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: GOjd6oMFeEM
credit: London Team, Newcastle Festival, 2008.
comment:
  Part of a longer demo.  Once through only, in a 5+5 demonstration set, placed bottom to bottom.  The figures are difficult to follow.  At the end the dancing couples finish in 2pl and 4pl, omitting the final cast to 3pl/5pl.


created: 2024-02-21 17:05:03.27509+00
last_modified: 2024-02-21 17:05:04.608447+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: oSyXwAhlglE
credit: Johnsonville SCD Club, NZ, 2017.
comment:
  To make it easier for a number of beginners this is a slightly adapted version of the dance where the reel of 4 is done across in 1st place with 2nd couple setting up. Normally it should be done across 2nd place with 2nd couple curving up to 1st place on bars 23-24.


created: 2023-10-21 23:05:13.57201+00
last_modified: 2024-02-25 21:00:03.528631+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: z928MdnPNmU
credit: London Gay Gordons and friends, 2023.
comment:
  Here showing three of the four repeats of the dance. The intended omission of the last left shoulder pass in bars 23-24 does not always go smoothly.


created: 2024-02-29 22:08:41.772036+00
last_modified: 2024-02-29 22:08:43.098978+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: A0Cr8ZshPWA
credit: Scottish Country Dancing Society of Berlin, 2024.
comment:
  The dancing is good but the camera view is so limited the whole set is almost never completely visible.


created: 2024-03-01 20:26:04.068425+00
last_modified: 2024-03-02 10:30:38.274622+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 1GgcgwQdoQ0
credit: Trinity Scottish Country Dance Club, Edinburgh, on 17 Feb 2024.
comment:
  Bill Hamilton's dance 'A Wee Touch o' Class' being danced at the Trinity Scottish Country Dance Club, Edinburgh, on 17 Feb 2024. Bill Hamilton was a leading member of the Trinity club, and of several other SCD clubs around Edinburgh.


created: 2024-03-05 03:05:40.312299+00
last_modified: 2024-03-05 03:05:40.312299+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: cLmE_a2Z3mI
comment:
  "Miss Knowles" (SCDDB: 4530), a 8x32 bar Jig devised by John W. Mitchell, taken from "The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, Number 6"

  DANCERS
  Participants of the Spring Course "Edinburgh" Class
  Kuckucksnest, Schlüchtern

  CLASS TEACHER
  Viktor Lehmann

  Video recorded by Birgit Stefanowicz, 03 March 2024


created: 2024-03-10 10:06:13.757718+00
last_modified: 2024-03-10 10:06:15.17879+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: pHsTXVVmGaU
credit: Oxford University Demo, Highland Ball 2024.
comment:
  Twice through as part of a longer display. The end of the 2nd time is heavily adapted to lead into the next dance in the demo.


created: 2024-03-06 22:07:24.73593+00
last_modified: 2024-03-06 22:20:24.817956+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: Hy5hQvHEjAE
credit: Milwaukee Scottish Country Dancers
comment:
  Milwaukee Scottish Country Dancers created video to allow attendees at the Midwest Scottish Weekend to learn this dance.
  Music: "Bill and Rajeev's Wedding Jig", Muriel Johnstone & Keith Smith from Spark O' Water


created: 2024-03-06 22:11:42.693656+00
last_modified: 2024-03-06 22:23:41.492942+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: Ukf9Csn6ii8
credit: Milwaukee Scottish Country Dancers
comment:
  Milwaukee Scottish Country Dancers created this video to allow attendees at the Midwest Scottish Weekend to learn this dance.
  Music: "The Ruby Hornpipe", Muriel Johnstone from Dancing Fingers 5 - The Merse Collection
  2nd Left Dancer (M) accidentally sets at the end of the reel, this is not part of the dance.


created: 2017-04-30 23:11:13.466311+00
last_modified: 2024-03-11 15:08:33.144087+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: ENwPNktoOj4
credit: Vancouver Island SCD Society, 2017.
comment:
  Video Published on 6 Mar 2017.  Vancouver Island Scottish Country Dance Society, Mar 2017.     http://viscds.ca/


created: 2024-03-10 22:34:16.696728+00
last_modified: 2024-03-12 09:24:17.700997+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: mQBXJrBJIWQ
credit: Central German Branch dancers, recording the dance for the RSCDS Virtual Festival 2023.
comment:
  The entire video shows the dance being danced 3x through, however the 2nd time through is probably best to learn the dance as the 1st time has some costume changes which might make it more difficult to follow (3rd time through contains small errors).


created: 2013-08-18 10:56:05.830007+00
last_modified: 2024-03-13 10:22:34.4147+00
quality: D
source: Y
external: DAUMBiH9MMY
credit: RSCDS Toronto 50th Tartan Ball, 2013.
comment:
  Quite good dancing in a  full hall, but the camera pans too much to follow any single set long enough.


created: 2024-03-14 20:46:51.634901+00
last_modified: 2024-03-15 09:32:09.174816+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: hH2fKYgWwUA
credit: Reel of the Puffin at the Trinity SCD Club, Edinburgh, 2024
comment:
  John Bowie Dickson's dance "Reel of the Puffins" danced at the Trinity Scottish Country Dance Club, Edinburgh on 9 March 2024 to the music of James Coutts and his band. The video shows the third and fourth times through the dance.


created: 2012-08-19 16:00:17.302256+00
last_modified: 2024-03-15 09:42:25.122566+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: 9gqxdG-aUs0
credit: Wuppertal Weekend, 2012.
comment:
  The first time through the set shown goes well; the second time through the set (another one) has problems.


created: 2012-12-17 14:18:15.243288+00
last_modified: 2024-03-17 09:05:17.632789+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: Q8Pn4Q2PcMg
comment:
  Part of a longer display.  View from floor level, but all formations are easy to follow, although top end is off screen during part of first time through.  Suitable for teaching.

  Was Good, now unavailable


created: 2020-01-17 19:34:37.909371+00
last_modified: 2024-03-17 09:07:53.817147+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: F8OORiTtq0o
credit: Red Thistle Dancers, 1988.
comment:
  Three times, once each couple in two 3 couple sets (as part of a longer demo). In bars 21-24 1st couple here turn left hand instead of the expected right hand.


created: 2013-01-17 23:54:02.523652+00
last_modified: 2024-03-19 09:53:05.485595+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: 1QrdlD11xlg
credit: Lisbon-Telheiras SCD Group, 2012.
comment:
  Once through only, slightly clipped at start and end; side view.  Not for teaching.  Original music.


created: 2012-12-17 14:18:15.312804+00
last_modified: 2024-03-17 09:09:11.934379+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: tF7_lLhG9Mo
credit: Houston RSCDS, 2012.
comment:
  Danced in a 3C set, 3 times.  Good view.  The last time through, 1st couple, birling for fun, end up at the opposite corner, but recover very gracefully.


created: 2017-03-31 20:33:21.852359+00
last_modified: 2024-03-18 11:30:06.574733+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: tP-rEvh-Lro
credit: Newark SCD Society, 2017.
comment:
  The dance is performed by members of the Newark Scottish Country Dance Society where Pat Harland, the deviser, is a member.


created: 2023-08-14 03:05:22.944345+00
last_modified: 2024-03-18 16:53:10.158008+00
quality: A
source: Y
external: nC9csaOC6DM
credit: Dancers at Summer School 2023.
comment:
  "The Irish Clover" (SCDDB: 20033), a 3×40 Strathspey, devised by Viktor Lehmann. Dancers: Beatrix Wepner, Aya Ito, Violaine Eysseric, Markus Daub, Viktor Lehmann, Étienne Moriette. Thanks to Martina Müller-Franz for recording, 12 August 2023, The Old Dining Room, University of St Andrews, Scotland.

  The dance is dedicated to Anika Lange and Wolfgang Hahn on the occasion of their wedding. 

  Full dance description can be found here: 
  https://www.scd-germany.de/en/scottish-dancing-in-germany/publications/

  Minicrib version can be found in the SCD Dance Database (SCDDB):
  https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/20033/

  Follow me on YouTube for more SCD Videos:
  https://www.youtube.com/@viktorlehmann


created: 2024-03-19 17:49:32.005902+00
last_modified: 2024-03-19 17:49:33.4664+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: okthQbWpDrQ
credit: SCD Group Hong Kong, 2024.
comment:
  Three times through. Clear, but instead of setting to first and second corners, the team here do 4 bars of hello goodbye which is not quite as per the instructions.


created: 2024-03-19 18:08:47.20757+00
last_modified: 2024-03-19 18:08:48.641586+00
quality: C
source: Y
external: kkG3sUUlE5M
credit: SCD Group Hong Kong, 2024.
comment:
  Once through. Nicely danced and very clear, but in bars 5-8 the instructions say the two lines should retain hands with the 2s, 4s and 5s advancing and retiring while the 1s and 3s retire then advance. Here the team release hands and all advance and retire separately. This is perhaps safer but seems not to be what the deviser intended.


created: 2017-01-10 11:41:15.668248+00
last_modified: 2024-03-23 10:50:09.324669+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: HZObJOt6PVo
credit: Telheiras SCD Group, Lisbon, 2015.
comment:
  Early Spring - Scottish Country Dance - VI Telheiras Festival May 2015

  The dance has been adapted to a 4C set.  All dancers dance the loops and turns for [1-16], and on [25-32], both top and bottom pairs of couples dance the Tourbillon, finishing (2,3,4,1)


created: 2013-06-01 07:43:29.626041+00
last_modified: 2024-03-23 10:59:48.394711+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: inNjSs6i3IQ
credit: Lugnasad Celtic Dance School, Lviv, 2007.
comment:
  Lugnasad Celtic Dance School demo at Lviv, october 2007.

  The transition on [15-16] from the mirror reels into the rondel is danced according to Drewry's original text in Book 23 which says: "First couple, giving right hands cross to own sides, dance up to the top and turn to face the second couple who have danced in ready for the Rondel."  The current instructions say: "First couple, giving right hands, dance up turning halfway round to finish facing second couple ready for the Rondel."   For further information look at the “Extra Info” for the dance.  Many dancers prefer the original instructions.

  The dancers here take hands during the reels, possibly following that suggestion in earlier versions of the e-crib and minicrib. However taking hands is not mentioned in the original instructions (except for 1st couple when crossing). As of April 2019 the e-crib has been updated to match and the comment forwarded to the minicrib team.


created: 2024-03-23 14:12:53.483+00
last_modified: 2024-03-23 14:13:29.704207+00
quality: A
source: S
external: 5rKUHHYe9yaXreWY2PbmT2
embed_path: /videos/embed/23fd3570-4b9a-4b2c-81a5-345630cc237f
thumbnail_path: /static/thumbnails/badbff58-4456-40f9-85de-1ab970aa4d6d.jpg
credit: Frankfurt SCD Club e.V., September 2009
comment:
  Danced by members of the Frankfurt SCD Club e.V. This was filmed when the dance was very new, and it was not clear whether we would be able to perform it at Eva Krüger's wedding.


created: 2020-07-18 09:40:33.532626+00
last_modified: 2024-03-24 11:06:25.414536+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: b3ZbSLXJ9-g
credit: Danced by young Russians near the Urals
comment:
  Good dancing but the camera view is between two lines of sets without a complete view of either.

  Was Good, but now unavailable (youtube account terminated).


created: 2023-12-18 01:11:58.976092+00
last_modified: 2024-03-24 18:40:06.570842+00
quality: Z
source: Y
external: YoDrO3uL0Kk
credit: Danced by some members of the Vancouver Island Scottish Country Dance Society on December 9 2023
comment:
  Was Good. Now Private on youtube (and Blocked on SCDDB as requested by gael@shaw.ca) due to this video having a few more errors than the other video by the Vancouver group.


created: 2024-03-28 10:41:30.667871+00
last_modified: 2024-03-28 10:41:32.060911+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: YD2_C4MNa_c
credit: Comhlan group in Krakow, Poland, 2024.
comment:
  Very clear performance with on screen instructions for each phrase. Two repeats are viewed from the top and two from an angle. This clip starts with the dancing. The whole video has lengthy opening credits.


created: 2024-03-30 21:22:06.146517+00
last_modified: 2024-03-30 22:50:55.329273+00
quality: B
source: Y
external: f0lqul-xscs
credit: Kilmorack SCDC Winter Social, February 2020.
comment:
  Dance was devised for the wedding of the Daughter of Kilmorack class members Mike and Elaine Goodall, and was being tested and videoed at the Kilmorack so that folk coming to the wedding could learn it from the video ahead of the big day.


# formation

last_modified: 2021-05-15 10:40:28.586826+00
napiername: KNOT2
name: Knot 2 couples
searchid: KNOT;2C;
notes:
  The Knot was originally devised by <<ddp:Corson, Mina#86>> for <<ddd:Miss Milligan's Strathspey#4555>> as mentioned in the extra info for <<ddd:Welcome Mina Corson#7017>>.


created: 2013-07-31 14:04:40.909053+00
last_modified: 2013-07-31 14:29:13.13484+00
name: Allemande - Interlocking (all forms)
searchid: ALLMND;INTLOCK
notes:
  This groups all Allemande formations where the paths of couples interlock. We can later split this collection into the many individual formations.


last_modified: 2023-03-05 09:27:15.975868+00
name: Double Triangles - inverting
searchid: DBLTRI;INV
notes:
  According to <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3073/|issue 3073>> the first dance with this figure was <<ddd:Gary Morris#2412>> by <<ddp::Hay, Alec#173>>.


last_modified: 2022-08-18 08:58:16.12234+00
name: Bourrel - 3 couple
searchid: BIRL;3C;
notes:
  For a discussion on the name see <<https://www.strathspey.org/lists/strathspey%40strathspey.org/t/3047/>>.


created: 2013-10-23 10:44:56.353681+00
last_modified: 2013-10-23 10:44:56.353681+00
name: Promenade - half
searchid: PROM;HALF
notes:
  Added 131022. This is rare (Langholm Fair was the first); therefore no distinction yet into number of couples.


created: 2013-10-26 15:14:40.385522+00
last_modified: 2013-10-26 15:14:40.385522+00
name: Set as in Double.Triangles
searchid: SET_DT
notes:
  Added 131026.  If "Balance in Line" deserves to be a figure, so does this, which in many dances occurs as a 2-bar figure separate from a full "Double Triangles".


created: 2013-10-14 10:00:41.065517+00
last_modified: 2013-11-26 18:31:42.173587+00
name: Cast behind own lines and lead up the middle
searchid: CBL&LeadUp
notes:
  New formation added 131013, as idea for the new formation list. Not yet used in earlier formation listings


created: 2014-06-30 14:29:12.340309+00
last_modified: 2014-07-01 19:33:12.40802+00
name: Rondel12
searchid: RONDEL12
notes:
  This is a 12-bar version of the Rondel.  Start with 1c facing 2c nearer hands joined.  1-2 under arch | 3-4 cross and loop ; 5-6 W under M arch | 7-8 cross and loop ; 9-10 1c under 2c arch | 11-12 all cast with loop to new places] (2,1).  First used by Ray Dugan in the Longwood Collection (2014).


last_modified: 2014-09-02 11:46:03.888399+00
name: Petronella - triple
searchid: PET;3C;
notes:
  Triple petronella is like petronella in tandem, but for 3 dancers in a row moving to 3 in line at right angles on the right


created: 2013-09-20 22:50:56.77498+00
last_modified: 2015-02-14 01:12:18.343477+00
name: Cast behind own lines and dance up the middle
searchid: CBL&DanceUp
notes:
  New formation added 130920, as idea for the new formation list. Not yet used in earlier formation listings


created: 2013-09-15 20:27:09.805836+00
last_modified: 2016-02-14 18:11:36.571608+00
name: Allemande Turn (to R or L)
searchid: ALL_RL
notes:
  One-couple 4-bar figure: set advancing and join LH or RH, then W turns under own arm to face away from partner, M dances backwards and W forwards to place.  Known from 19th century dances.  Re-introduced into SCD by Derek Haynes.


last_modified: 2017-04-24 13:32:14.553584+00
name: Corners Pass, half-turn and cast away
searchid: CPassHTurn&Twirl
notes:
  {4 bars} Dancing couple and corners pass Rsh, the corners turn 1/2 RH or BH and face, and cast R to the opposite corner position, passing Rsh with the dancing couple who dance back in.


last_modified: 2021-02-21 20:03:55.839797+00
name: Weasel Reel
searchid: REEL;WEASL;
notes:
  Name changed from"weasle". Three dances have these reels, two spell "weasel", the third does not give it name.   The word "Weasle" exists, does not refer to the animal, but has other connotations, see the Urban Dictionary.  Eric, 2014-01-21. 

  According to the instructions for <<ddd:Isolated Weasel, The#20050>> the Weasel Reel was
  *was created by Barry Skelton on July 1st, 1990.*


created: 2014-10-26 14:13:16.574259+00
last_modified: 2014-10-26 14:13:16.574259+00
name: Interrupted Set to Corners and Partner
searchid: C-INTSCP
notes:
  Two typical dances:
  Hanna's Pride        32J 3C        Dunsmuir Dances Book   (the Quarries) 
  Chris Ronald's Strathspey  32 Bar Strathspey for 3C/4L set  (Ron Wallace, San Andreas Collection, #9)

  The original description in the Dunsmuir Book reads:

  25-32  1st couple dance interrupted set to corners and partner (hello-goodbye): 1st couple set to 1st comers and partner then tum with right hands to face 2nd comers. 1st couple set to 2nd comers and partner then tum with right hands to finish in second place. 

  In strathspey@strathspey.org:66273 we read the details:

  1C move to the sideline on the left foot but instead of facing partner have
  right shoulder facing partner, then the right hand turn is a three quarter
  turn to face second corner; similarly, set to second corner on the right
  foot, move on the left foot to between 2C or 3C but again don't face
  partner but have right shoulder facing ready for an easy three quarter
  right hand turn to second place on own side.


last_modified: 2021-05-25 21:13:41.442134+00
napiername: SNAKE
name: Snake Pass
searchid: SNAKE
notes:
  Normally a 3 couple figure. However the first versions may have been for 4 and 5 couples in dances <<ddd:Heights of Rechberg, The#13776>> and <<Sisters of Kintail, The#7948>> by <<ddp:Conrad, Adrian#1276>> under the name "Spiral Exchange".


last_modified: 2021-06-07 10:23:17.455403+00
napiername: SPOUHS
name: Poussette Highland Schottische
searchid: POUSS;HS;
notes:
  According to the instructions for <<ddd:Flodigarry Strathspey#2237>> this figure was devised by <<ddp:Johnstone, Jackie#200>> for the dance <<ddd:S. S. Johnstone#5786>>.


created: 2018-07-16 23:53:39.689594+00
last_modified: 2018-07-16 23:53:39.689594+00
napiername: HG-POUSS
name: Hello-Goodbye Poussette
searchid: HG-POUSS;
notes:
  Hello Goodbye Poussette (description by Rod Downey):

  This begins in a diagonal line between first man's place and second lady’s place with 1W and 2M back to back; 1C and 2C holding partners with both hands in order 1M 1W 2M 2W. The retain hands until the end of bar 6. All begin on the right foot.

  1-2 All set R, and move left on the left jete' to finish in a line across the set, with the 1M and 2W back to back. (This rotates the line 1/8 anticlockwise.)
  3-4 Repeat a further 1/8, so that we are now on the second diagonal.

  5-6 Repeat, so that now all are in a line up and down the set, (from the top), 2M, 2W, 1M, 1W. Drop hands.

  7-8 All petronella to own sides in progressed places.


last_modified: 2015-05-06 21:18:28.199488+00
napiername: KNOT4C
name: Knot 4 couples - circular
searchid: KNOT;4C;CIRC;
notes:
  The Circular Knot Formation is described as follows in the square set dance "The Blue Lights of Pizza Express":

  1-2: Turn partner 1 1/4 with the right hand into promenade hold, facing anticlockwise around the set, men nearest the center;

  2-4: Progress one place (1/4 way) round the set anticlockwise;

  5-8: Turn 1 1/4 with the left hand, as in the knot, to finish man facing out, lady facing in.

  Possibly the facing at the end might differ in other dances if the formation will be adopted by other devisors.


created: 2017-01-14 14:20:04.635658+00
last_modified: 2017-10-09 19:56:40.778519+00
napiername: --
name: Spiral (RSCDS), The
searchid: SPIR_PGS
notes:
  Manual 2013 section 6.31 (p. 163)

  1c and 2c change places in 8 bars.  Formation as published in "Sailor Hector".

  1 – 4   1st man and 2nd woman turn with the right hand three quarters and, giving left hand to other's partner, all balance in line.  On the second setting step, 1st woman and 2nd man pull back left shoulder to face clockwise and join nearer hands with the same dancer as before.

  5 – 8   1st and 2nd couples, in a diagonal line, dance round one place.  2nd man and 1st woman release hands while 1st man and 2nd woman continue turning with the right hand to finish on own sides, opposite partners, in progressed places.  


created: 2017-11-02 02:26:25.835037+00
last_modified: 2017-11-02 03:06:06.698667+00
name: Pushme-Pullyou Reel
searchid: REEL;PUSHPULL;
notes:
  Description from the dance "Back to Back":

  First couple dances a figure of eight on the side of the dance, around their own corner positions, starting with right shoulder to first corner  
  while second and third men, and likewise second and third women, dance consecutive back to backs on the side of the dance. Second and third couples begin by passing right shoulders on bars 17-18 and left shoulders on bars 21-22. 

  Note: besides the above way the Formation may be danced in a "mirrored" way (as in the dance "Still Together") with the dancing couple starting down and out and the corner couples dancing Back to Back accordingly.


last_modified: 2019-12-14 15:17:58.44936+00
napiername: KEPP
name: Keppoch
searchid: KEPP
notes:
  SCDDB previously had this formation spelled as Keppock, but Keppoch is used consistently in the videos of dances featuring this formation.


last_modified: 2020-12-13 12:33:26.96285+00
napiername: S&LNK
name: Set and Link
searchid: SETLNK;2P;
notes:
  According to notes at the end of <<ddpub:Bankhead Book Part 2#764>> <<ddp:Drewry, John#108>> writes that Set and Link was invented by <<ddp::Hay, Alec#173>> of Auckland, NZ.


last_modified: 2020-12-13 12:33:55.271835+00
napiername: PET-T
name: Petronella - tandem
searchid: PET;TANDEM;
notes:
  According to notes at the end of <<ddpub:Bankhead Book Part 2#764>> <<ddp:Drewry, John#108>> writes that Petronella in Tandem was first used by <<ddp::Boyd, Iain#173>> of Wellington, NZ and <<ddp:Boehmer, Marie#35>> of Ontario, Canada. However the name was assigned by Drewry.


last_modified: 2021-02-17 23:25:05.052242+00
napiername: FIG8D
name: Figure of Eight - double
searchid: FIG8;2C;
notes:
  According to <<https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/The-Thistle-020-November-1964.pdf|issue 20 of The Thistle>> this formation was first devised by Hugh Foss.


last_modified: 2021-02-24 10:01:01.186663+00
napiername: C-P&T
name: Corners Pass and Turn
searchid: C-P&T
notes:
  According to a note in Copycat Suite - Prelude, Drewry says he first used Corners Pass and Turn in <<ddd:Tommy Ford's Fancy#6644>> and then in <<ddd:Misses Farrell of Alloa#4602>>.


created: 2013-10-25 22:54:55.011171+00
last_modified: 2021-07-04 08:22:57.726417+00
name: Set to corner and cast away
searchid: SET;CASTAWAY
notes:
  Formation introduced by Alec Hay in "Peter White", and later used in "Aberdeen Hunt" (Ron Wallace), "John of Montrose" (Babs Hewinson), "Best Set in the Hall" (Helen Greenwood) and "The Jet Set Hornpipe" (Anselm Lingnau).

  This figure may also occur elsewhere. Created in 2013 by Eric. This new formation now automatically comes onto the list of those to be named or not at the new revision of formations.

  Another instance, there referred to as "Corners Pass and Rotate", is "Ruby Red" (Frances Wallace).


created: 2012-10-02 21:56:10.599757+00
last_modified: 2022-01-01 00:07:21.200473+00
name: Reel of four - diagonal - half - tandem (no lead change)
searchid: REEL;DIAG;R4;HALF;TANDEM;
notes:
  "No lead change" has been verified.
  The tag "HALF" was missing, and has been added by Eric Ferguson on 2022-01-01


created: 2015-02-12 11:06:23.841626+00
last_modified: 2022-01-01 00:25:56.673743+00
name: Axum Reel
searchid: REEL;AXUM;
notes:
  Figure of 8 bars, in a 4C set.  End position 4x,3x,2x,1x.   Every 2 bars all dance to the next position along the path 1M, 2W, 1W, 3W, 4W, 3M, 4M, 2M, 1M, etc., passing other dancers Lsh each time.


created: 2013-10-23 23:43:47.591902+00
last_modified: 2022-01-01 00:32:22.945156+00
name: Reel of three - crossing - R shoulder
searchid: REEL;R3;RSH;Cross
notes:
  The special reels occuring in"Tulloch Gorm", "Cadgers" and "Willie wi' his tartan trews".  Added 20131024 Eric Ferguson


created: 2013-12-07 21:16:31.077725+00
last_modified: 2022-04-29 01:03:06.037085+00
name: Bourrel - 4 couple
searchid: BIRL;4C;
notes:
  There are very few dances having a Bourrel that involves 4 couples, and their formations differ in details.  So for the time being we use this Formation as a collective name for all Bourrels involving 4 couples. If their number (ever) grows over a certain size, we can still split it.  Heiko has renamed the Formation to "Bourrel - 4 couple" to indicate that it includes not only one type.

  For a discussion on the name see <<https://www.strathspey.org/lists/strathspey%40strathspey.org/t/3047/>>.


last_modified: 2022-06-12 11:15:52.779283+00
napiername: S&ROT
name: Set and Rotate
searchid: SETROT;2C;
notes:
  Devised by John Drewry in 1987 (according to <<ddd:The Gilly Flower>> in Book 36).

  However the inscription for <<ddd:Brimmond#811>> says that is where Drewry intoduced the figure.


last_modified: 2023-05-12 15:21:58.879267+00
napiername: HR5
name: Hands round - 5 - (and back?)
searchid: HR;5P;?BACK?;
notes:
  This name "Hands round - 5" has historically been used to mean both "Hands round - 6 (one way) and "Hands round - 5 and back".  I have started disambiguating these.  This is the temporary name given to the old entries.  Eric Ferguson


last_modified: 2023-05-12 15:22:15.536262+00
napiername: HR10
name: Hands round - 10 - (and back?)
searchid: HR;10P;&BACK?;
notes:
  This name "Hands round - 10" has historically been used to mean both "Hands round - 6 (one way) and "Hands round - 10 and back".  I have started disambiguating these.  This is the temporary name given to the old entries.  Eric Ferguson


last_modified: 2023-05-12 15:22:31.697009+00
napiername: HR6old
name: Hands round - 6 - (and back?)
searchid: HR;6P;&BACK?;
notes:
  This name "Hands round - 6" has historically been used to mean both "Hands round - 6 (one way) and "Hands round - 6 and back".  I have started disambiguating these.  This is the temporary name given to the old entries.  Eric Ferguson


last_modified: 2023-05-12 15:30:57.043047+00
napiername: R3TNDM
name: Reel of three - tandem (lead change or not?)
searchid: REEL;R3;TANDEM;?LEADCHANGE?;
notes:
  This name "Reel of three - tandem" has historically been used to mean this figure both with and without lead change. I have started disambiguating these, by adding "Lead Change" when needed. This is the temporary name given to the old entries.  Eric Ferguson


created: 2015-01-22 12:14:02.752579+00
last_modified: 2023-06-05 19:57:15.698051+00
napiername: GCH-PR
name: Grand Chain - progressive (with turns)
searchid: CHAIN;HORSESHOE;
notes:
  This formation was originally called Horseshoe Chain which occurs in the dances <<ddd:Shin Kai Tei>> and <<ddd:Two Furlongs#9533>>.

  However in response to <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/1584/|issue 1584>> it was realised the same figure occurs in several other dances with a variety of names, the most common being progressive grand chain. So the name has now been changed to "Grand Chain - progressive (with turns)" and has been added as a formation used in those dances.


last_modified: 2023-09-20 13:04:34.438987+00
napiername: R3LCH
name: Reel of three - lead change
searchid: REEL;R3;LEADCHANGE;
notes:
  Also known as alternating tandem or dolphin reels. For a long article about the history and evolution of all kinds of tandem reels in Scottish/English/Contra dancing see <<https://cdss.org/publications/read/cds/cds-volume-2/the-dolphin-hey-the-evolution-and-transmission-of-a-dance-figure/>>.


created: 2012-10-02 22:06:13.52538+00
last_modified: 2023-09-20 13:07:46.578904+00
napiername: R3TDM
name: Reel of three - tandem (no lead change)
searchid: REEL;R3;TANDEM;
notes:
  "No lead change" has been verified.

  For a long article about the history and evolution of all kinds of tandem reels in Scottish/English/Contra dancing see <<https://cdss.org/publications/read/cds/cds-volume-2/the-dolphin-hey-the-evolution-and-transmission-of-a-dance-figure/>>.


# person

last_modified: 2024-01-16 14:59:24.218398+00
name: Robertson, John
display_name: John Robertson
notes:
  John Robertson is mentioned in <<https://wiki.scotlandonair.com/wiki/Scottish_country_dance_music>>.


last_modified: 2017-09-27 00:24:37.312235+00
name: MacLeod, Jim
display_name: Jim MacLeod
notes:
  Jim MacLeod was a pianist, composer and band leader.

  There is a long <<http://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/jim-macleod.html|obituary on the box and fiddle archive>>.


last_modified: 2023-01-12 19:27:48.012629+00
name: Sinclair, John
display_name: John Sinclair
notes:
  There is a John Sinclair (composer) that was called "Jackie Sinclair". Unclear if this is the same person.


last_modified: 2020-04-21 23:23:20.892488+00
name: Zobel, Bill & Johnstone, Muriel
display_name: Bill Zobel / Muriel Johnstone
location: Pitlochry, Scotland
notes:
  "In 2011, Muriel and Bill returned from Canada to Scotland and now reside in Pitlochry, Perthshire."   


last_modified: 2018-04-03 09:04:19.521007+00
name: Rutherford, David
shortname: Rutherford
display_name: David Rutherford
notes:
  Though often denoted as just "Rutherford", the RSCDS publication "Scottish Country Dances Books 13 to 18" states Rutherford's full given name as David.


last_modified: 2018-04-03 23:56:11.033401+00
name: Harbour, Jacob
display_name: Jacob Harbour
notes:
  Though often denoted as just "J Harbour", the RSCDS publication "Scottish Country Dances Books 13 to 18" states Harbour's full given name as Jacob.


last_modified: 2017-08-23 21:16:35.197315+00
name: Macfarlane, Peter / Linden, Lilian
shortname: Macfarlane/Linden
display_name: Peter Macfarlane / Lilian Linden
notes:
  The collaboration between Peter Macfarlane and Lilian Linden ended when Peter emigrated to Vermont, USA in 2003.


last_modified: 2018-04-14 22:55:18.078549+00
name: West, Eddy
display_name: Eddy West
location: New Zealand
email: edg81169@gmail.com
notes:
  37 of Eddy's dances can be found on his website http://eddywest.nz/

  Eddy's death was announced on Strathspey on 14 April 2018


last_modified: 2018-04-16 21:01:42.60964+00
name: Cannonito, Frank
display_name: Frank Cannonito
location: RSCDS Orange County Branch
notes:
  Frank Cannonito passed away on April 7th, 2018.

  Frank Cannonito was professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California at Irvine.  He had been chair of the RSCDS Orange County Branch and an active volunteer with the Orange County Games Committee.


last_modified: 2022-12-23 13:40:09.570986+00
name: Spence, Steven
shortname: Steven Spence
display_name: Steven Spence
notes:
  The database had misspelled/alternative entries for "Stephen Spence" and "S Spence" which have been deleted and all merged to this person.


last_modified: 2018-06-18 14:21:30.888067+00
name: Sheffield, Martin
display_name: Martin Sheffield
location: Torremolinos, Spain
email: mj.sheffield@wanadoo.fr
notes:
  Martin Sheffield has taught SCD for many years in Great Britain and France.

  Now retired he is living in Andalusia, Spain, and continues teaching SCD in Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol of the Mediterranean.

  He also has devised a large number of scottish country dances. Among those for example Genevieve's Jig that was published in RSCDS Book 32.


created: 2012-03-09 20:31:14.723896+00
last_modified: 2012-03-09 20:34:25.29261+00
name: Macclesfield Children
display_name: Children of the Macclesfield SCD Group
location: Macclesfield, UK
notes:
  The children of Macclesfield Scottish Country Dance Group devised the dance 18! 18! for the 18th Wigan Thistle society festival of dance for young people.  Teacher J F Bradbury


last_modified: 2018-08-08 20:40:47.603308+00
name: MacGregor-Brown, James
display_name: James MacGregor-Brown
notes:
  From <<https://mccleisterfuneralhome.ca/tribute/details/2897/James-MacGregor-Brown/obituary.html>>, via Randal Oulton:

  > MACGREGOR-BROWN, James - Feb. 1936 - Jan. 2018 Peacefully in his sleep
  > at the Brantford General Hospital on January 4th, 2018 in his 82nd year.
  > Beloved son of the late Mary (nee Gardener) and Robert Brown; dear
  > brother of Janet Finnessey of Nuneaton, England. James was born in
  > Glasgow, Scotland and educated in Scotland and France. James taught
  > Modern Languages at Pauline Johnson Collegiate from 1968 until his
  > retirement. Jim was a world traveller, often with his sister. He will be
  > dearly missed by many friends and former students.


created: 2013-02-01 09:27:53.469889+00
last_modified: 2013-02-01 09:27:53.469901+00
name: Carmichael, Hoagy
display_name: Hoagy Carmichael
notes:
  This is presumably not the famous jazz musician and composer of standards such as »Stardust«, who died in 1981 at age 82.


last_modified: 2012-04-19 13:56:59.008056+00
name: Milligan, Jean
display_name: Jean Milligan
notes:
  ##>>
  The entry for Miss Milligan in *The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women* reads:

  {{quote}}
  … born Glasgow 9 July 1886, died Glasgow 28 July 1978. Inspirational teacher and advocate of traditional Scottish dance. Daughter of Isabella Aitchison, teacher and Dr. James Milligan LL. D. Rector, Glasgow High School for Girls.

  {{quote}}
  The fifth of six children, Jean Milligan was educated at her father’s school subsequently qualifying in Physical Training at Kingsfield College, Dartford. Appointed Assistant Instructress at Dundas Vale Training College (subsequently Jordanhill), Glasgow in 1909, she immediately showed her interest in traditional dance and music. Saw war service as
  a VAD nurse in Malta. Appointed Principal Instructress in Physical Training at Jordanhill, and, until her retirement from that post in 1948, had an influential role in the national provision and development of physical education in Scotland.

  {{quote}}
  In 1923, she met Mrs Ysobel Stewart of Fasnacloich (n. Campbell of Inverneill, 1882-1968), Head of Training for Girl Guides in Scotland who was keen to promote Scottish Country Dancing among young people. With others, they convened a meeting in Glasgow in November 1923 when the Scottish Country Dance Society was formed. With Miss Milligan as its principal teacher and technical adviser, the Society produced books of dance instruction, devised a teacher-training programme through its branches and founded a Summer School at St Andrews which, except for wartime, has been held annually since 1927 and now hosts some 1,000 dancers. Compiled the popular 101 Scottish Country Dances and a manual of Country Dancing – Won’t You Join the Dance.

  {{quote}}
  After the Second World War, she promoted Scottish Country Dancing throughout the world, travelling extensively to support and encourage new branches of the Society. By the 80th Anniversary in 2003, the, by now, Royal Scottish Country Dance Society comprised 166 branches and 448 affiliated groups in 41 countries.

  {{quote}}
  In 1973, voted The Evening Times Scotswoman of the Year and in 1977 Aberdeen University conferred on her the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The Earl of Mansfield summarised her neatly as »a woman with a vision and with the ability and tenacity to grasp it and make it become reality«. (in MacFadyen & Adams, 1983 p.7)
  ##<<

  For a full biography of Miss Milligan see
  *Dance with your Soul*
  by Dr Alastair MacFadyen and Mrs Florence H Adams published by RSCDS


last_modified: 2021-07-25 16:53:11.679479+00
name: Conrad, Adrian
display_name: Adrian Conrad
location: Croydon, England
email: adrian_conrad@yahoo.co.uk
notes:
  All my dances are available in MS Word softcopy on application to my e-mail address.  Adrian.

  NB they have now been published on the MiniCrib website. See <<http://www.minicrib.org.uk/Publications/AConrad.The.Odd.Half-dozen.pdf>>.


created: 2012-02-12 20:49:50.660426+00
last_modified: 2015-03-14 18:11:03.141963+00
name: Cash, Johnny
display_name: Johnny Cash
notes:
  A world famous Country and Western singer who wrote the music and the words which go with it for Fourty Shades of Green in the 1960's following a visit to Ireland


created: 2012-12-28 13:22:35.895039+00
last_modified: 2012-12-28 13:22:35.89505+00
name: Cullivoe Band, The
shortname: Cullivoe
display_name: The Cullivoe Band
notes:
  Members are (2011):
    Ivor Scollay - Lead Accordion
    Bryan Gear - Fiddle
    Matthew Scollay - 2nd Accordion
    Graeme Garrick - Drums
    Martin Henderson - Piano


last_modified: 2012-10-16 08:03:20.936779+00
name: MacLachlan, Janet T
display_name: Janet T MacLachlan
location: Canada
notes:
  An obituary by Anne Sutherland can be found on <<https://sites.google.com/site/wohdadance/founder|the Western Ontario Highland Dancers' Association>>'s web site. It says

  > Janet (Jenny) T. MacLachlan was an artist, historian and pillar of
  > resource and knowledge in the Highland and Scottish Country Dance 
  > communities in Canada, the United States, and in Scotland. […]
  >  Jenny has also published books on the histories of rare and
  > lesser-known Scottish Dances collected throughout North America and
  > Scotland. She worked hard to enrich the Scottish Dance heritage in
  > North America, producing many exceptional highland dancers that have 
  > gone on to teaching and judging careers.

  Many of the dances in the RSCDS' <<ddpub:Book 24>> were »collected by Jenny MacLachlan«.


created: 2012-11-29 07:20:44.139697+00
last_modified: 2012-11-29 07:20:44.139709+00
name: Simpson, Eann
display_name: Eann Simpson
notes:
  First name variously spelt "Ian" or "Iain"; correct spelling could not be confirmed.

  Year of death is approximate.


created: 2013-02-21 16:00:39.915965+00
last_modified: 2013-02-21 16:00:39.915976+00
name: Cambridge University Strathspey & Reel Club
shortname: CUSRC
display_name: Cambridge University Strathspey & Reel Club
location: Cambridge, UK
notes:
  This Wiki is now static; no new dances are being added.

  website: http://cusarc.soc.srcf.net/wiki/Main_Page


last_modified: 2013-05-28 09:48:20.30607+00
name: Hastings, John
display_name: John Hastings
location: Edinburgh, Scotland
notes:
  See obituary in <<http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/obituaries/obituary-john-hastings-scottish-country-dance-musician-and-composer-1-2945167|The Scotsman>>. Note that the obituary mentions the tune »<<ddt:John Murray of Lochee|John Murray of Lochiel>>«, but the overwhelming majority of people appear to spell the place »Lochee«.


last_modified: 2021-01-02 10:52:43.942935+00
name: Simmonds, Ian
display_name: Ian Simmonds
location: Wellington, New Zealand
email: simmonds@actrix.gen.nz
notes:
  A fine interview with Ian, discussing his dance "<<ddd:Oriel Strathspey#5111>>" (Book 32) can be found as a video for that dance and on youtube at 
  <<http://youtu.be/mCz7g98eh3M>>.


created: 2013-11-16 20:56:12.204932+00
last_modified: 2013-11-16 20:56:12.204932+00
name: Brown, Bert
display_name: Bert Brown
notes:
  From issue 356 by Paul Maloney: Douglas Henderson wrote "The Tartan Waistcoat" and published it in Scottish Dance Archives (September 1972, No. 2). He said: "Recommended tune:- Ann Caithness (composed Bert Brown, arranged Nan Main)." I wrote to Laird Brown, son of Bobby Brown, and asked whether Bobby was "Bert" and had written "Ann Caithness". Laird said that his father had NOT written the tune and that he knew nothing about Bert Brown.

  This "Bert Brown" has been added as a new person on the basis of this information; nothing more is known about him yet.  Eric Ferguson, 13-11-16


last_modified: 2018-07-06 15:37:54.053906+00
name: Ligtmans, Frans
display_name: Frans Ligtmans
location: Nuenen, Netherlands
notes:
  Frans Ligtmans, was born 3 April 1932 in Zierikzee in the province of Zeeland of the Netherlands.

  In 1977 she was among the founding member of The Thistle Club of Eindhoven.

  Starting from just one set of 8 dances at its peak The Thistle Club had about 50 dancers. Frans gave lessons to beginners, advanced and children. She led Preliminary Teachers Courses on the continent, wrote dances and did the choreography and rehearsals for demonstrations.

  Sadly, Frans' health kept her from dancing in later life. She died on 16 January 2018.

  There is an obituary at <<http://www.thistleclub.nl/in-memoriam.html|The Thistle Club>> webpage.


last_modified: 2014-05-21 22:33:53.637523+00
name: Brown, Bobby and The Scottish Accent
shortname: Bobby Brown
display_name: Bobby Brown and The Scottish Accent
location: Mississauga, CANADA
notes:
  Band created 1974.  On the death of Bobby Brown on May 3rd, 2011, the band “Bobby Brown and the Scottish Accent” changed its name to “Scotch Mist”, At the changeover, one CD, "Eight Bars of Magic", was produced using the name “Laird Brown with the Scottish Accent”, but the band never used that name in any other context.  Both bands were based in Toronto, Canada.  


last_modified: 2014-05-21 22:45:39.932558+00
name: Brown, Laird J
display_name: Laird Brown
location: Canada
notes:
  All but 4 of these 15 tunes also appear as tunes in the album "Eight bars of Magic" by "Laird Brown with The Scottish Accent (2010)".  It is clear that this Laird J Brown is the same person as the Laird Brown of that band.


created: 2013-08-20 11:53:15.450285+00
last_modified: 2014-08-27 21:21:22.672111+00
name: Noble, Jean
display_name: Jean Noble
location: Toronto, Canada
notes:
  There is some further information at Dick Oakes' <<http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/folktchr.htm|Master Folk Dance Teacher Biographies>>: <<http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/teachers/noble_j.htm>>


last_modified: 2014-11-09 01:10:49.163378+00
name: Watson, James (Jim)
display_name: James (Jim) Watson
notes:
  A little bit of information about James Watson can be found <<http://genforum.genealogy.com/watson/messages/8683.html|here>>.


last_modified: 2020-09-12 20:28:54.725365+00
name: Vandegrift, Elinor M
display_name: Elinor M Vandegrift
location: Seattle WA USA
email: elinor3@frontier.com
notes:
  There is some further information at Dick Oakes' <<http://www.socalfolkdance.org/master_teachers.htm|Master Folk Dance Teacher Biographies>>: <<http://www.socalfolkdance.org/master_teachers/vandegrift_em.htm>>


last_modified: 2023-10-17 10:14:42.494376+00
name: Thurston, Hugh A
display_name: Hugh A Thurston
location: Vancouver
notes:
  Hugh Thurston's full name was Hugh Ansfrid Thurston.

  There is a very informative entry at Dick Oakes' <<http://www.socalfolkdance.org/master_teachers.htm|Master Folk Dance Teacher Biographies>>: <<http://www.socalfolkdance.org/master_teachers/thurston_h.htm>>

  The Vancouver branch also has a biographical article written by Rosemary Coupe: <<https://rscdsvancouver.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/Hugh-Thurston.pdf>>.


last_modified: 2014-11-06 17:31:59.016797+00
name: MacColl, John
shortname: John MacColl
display_name: John MacColl
notes:
  At Piptunes.ca there is a nice <<http://www.pipetunes.ca/composers.asp?pg=Details&composerID=19|informative page>> about him as well as some <<http://www.pipetunes.ca/browseproducts.asp?catID=146&searchComposer=19|mp3 samples>> of his tunes.


last_modified: 2014-11-07 08:58:14.599567+00
name: Crawford, John
display_name: John Crawford
location: Freuchie, Scotland
notes:
  There is a nice <<http://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/john-crawford.html|informative page>> about him at the Box and Fiddle archive.


last_modified: 2014-12-09 01:24:49.940831+00
name: Stalker, Jack
display_name: Jack Stalker
notes:
  Band leader.

  Jack Stalker’s outstanding service to Scottish country dance music was recognised in 2011 by presenting him with a Branch Award of the West Lothian Branch.


last_modified: 2015-01-22 22:59:46.104558+00
name: Gregg, Robert A.
display_name: Robert Gregg
location: New Haven, USA
notes:
  From: http://obits.mlive.com
  Dr. Robert A. Gregg, a resident of Woodbridge, Connecticut since 1973 has died at the age of 94. Dr. Gregg was born in Dundee, Michigan on March 8, 1918. He received a BA from Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan, and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Michigan. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science.
  In 1942 he joined the research staff of the United States Rubber Co., later to become Uniroyal. Some of his early work on fundamental polymer chemistry has become standard textbook chemistry.
  He is credited with inventing chemical processes which made steel-belted radial tires safe. Steel belted radial tires were invented by Firestone, but the claims and judgments against Firestone due to the failure of their tires, sometimes resulting in loss of life, so damaged the company that it was absorbed by a Japanese company in 1988. Uniroyal tires experienced no such difficulties. For this work he was awarded the Maurice Chamberland Award by the New Haven Section of the American Chemical Society, an award made "for work enhancing societal well being through the application of chemistry".
  He invented spandex.
  He also invented a chemical foaming agent now widely used in the making of shock-absorbing foam rubber in a wide variety of products, from running shoes to hammer handles.
  Since retiring in 1984, as President of the Woodbridge Land Trust he led the towns effort to purchase undeveloped tracts of land, thereby preserving them from development, providing outdoor recreation and preserving the character of the town. And he was active with the American Chestnut Foundation in its effort to restore the chestnut tree to the landscape, through cross-breeding to produce a disease-resistant tree. He served as a Director of the Connecticut Chapter of the Foundation since 2004. One of the parcels preserved by the Land Trust is now the site of an experimental chestnut plantation.
  Finally, his will endows a Chair in the Chemistry Department at the University of Michigan.
  He will be interred in Brookside Cemetery, Tecumseh, Michigan at 1PM Wednesday, December 12. A memorial service will be held at First Church of Christ, Woodbridge at 11AM Saturday, December 15th. He is survived by his wife Jean Westerman Gregg, and their son Timothy of Carmel, NY.
  Memorial donations may be made to The Woodbridge Land Trust, Inc., P.O. Box 3699, Woodbridge, CT 06525.

  Published in Ann Arbor News from Dec. 7 to Dec. 9, 2012
  - See more at: http://obits.mlive.com/obituaries/annarbor/obituary.aspx?pid=161533580#sthash.dxUZAfwV.dpuf


last_modified: 2015-02-14 14:07:21.834586+00
name: Brown, May
display_name: May Brown
location: Western Australia
notes:
  May died peacefully on 14 June 2011.  May was a life member of the RSCDS Western Australia Branch and the deviser of several dances.


last_modified: 2015-03-14 18:11:14.734998+00
name: Macadians, The
shortname: Macadians
display_name: The Macadians
location: Nova Scotia
notes:
  Members (received feb. 2015)
  Duncan Keppie (Accordion)
  Peter Giles & Clara Whitman (Fiddle)
  Maggie Keppie (Percussion & Voice)
  Rob Kehler (Keyboard)


last_modified: 2015-03-19 06:22:08.333848+00
name: Kafoozalum
shortname: Kafoozalum
display_name: Kafoozalum
location: London, UK
email: peter@kafoozalum.co.uk
notes:
  Home:	020 8581 0359
  Mobile:	07973 250918
  Address:	20 Charles Street, Hillingdon Heath, Middlesex  UB10 0SY

  Kafoozalum  is based in London, but plays all over the place:
      Birmingham in the North
      Brighton in the South
      Norwich in the East
      Exeter in the West
  and everywhere in between


last_modified: 2015-09-24 04:15:40.875434+00
name: Seybold, Beate
display_name: Beate Seybold
location: Berlin, Germany
notes:
  Beate Seybold danced in various locations including Vienna (Austria) and Berlin (Germany).

  Together with Sonja Schroeder, she was the co-founder of the Berlin Hopalots dance group in 2001.


last_modified: 2015-03-19 06:47:58.491606+00
name: Armstrong, Jack
display_name: Jack Armstrong
notes:
  Bandleader of Barnstormers dance band 
  Numerous radio and tv broadcasts in 1950's and 1960's 
  Piper to Duke of Northumberland from 1948


last_modified: 2015-06-28 15:02:49.724059+00
name: Jenkins, Peter
display_name: Peter Jenkins
location: Middlesex, UK
email: peter@kafoozalum.co.uk
notes:
  Leader of Kafoozalum website http://www.kafoozalum.co.uk

  Publication: The Kafoozalum Tunes. Details at http://www.kafoozalum.co.uk/tunebook.html

  All compositions - including The Kafoozalum Tunes - available (free) in abc format at http://abcnotation.com/searchTunes?q=site:www.kafoozalum.co.uk&f=c&o=a&s=0

  Additonal information:
  20 Charles Street
  Hillingdon Heath
  Middlesex
  UB10 0SY
  Home:	020 8581 0359
  Mobile:	07973 250918

  Other tunes, all from "The Kafoozalum Tunes" publication, as are the three currently displayed, are accessible through JC's Tunefinder: A Minor Catastrophe Altered Jig The Apprentice (or "Road to the Heath") Ayrshire Bacon But NOT Morrismen Cat's Cradle Connor O' Denis Drear Life The Humours of Hillingdon Jacki's Jig The Last Buss The Loss of Much One Mor The Promised Land Siobhan Cottage Splash! All the way to Beckenham At the top of the Steppes The Band Wagon Cheers The Cyclist's Hornpipe Diminished Resposibility Dog Walk Mrs L. P. Fogg Pearl of Welwyn Phumblin' The Spa Weekend The Stuttering Loom Light Meter Rant Silky Blue Summer A Virgin from Waverley Lesley's Welcome Return from Canada One for Roger! Peter Jenkins' compliments to Ron Fiske Puddles Simply Rosie The White Barn (Chicken Rarebit) The Facelift Hugh & Cry

  Other compositions not in that publication but available from http://www.kafoozalum.co.uk/ABC.txt (which does not seem to be picked up by JC's tunefinder yet!) in abc format

  The Beast of Drumnadrochit Have you seen it? Sabotage Highland Toenail Streak! ECML McGonagall Pinkasaurus Pure Invention It takes two to Tango Elderberry Bubblegum Slate of Hand The Snowball Jig Glaw Cymreig (Welsh Rain) Mr. Merton of Puns

  http://abcnotation.com/searchTunes?q=site:www.kafoozalum.co.uk&f=c&o=a&s=0 gives all my compositions 


last_modified: 2015-09-24 04:37:59.208318+00
name: Stevenson-Mathews, James (Jim)
display_name: James (Jim) Stevenson-Mathews
location: Glen Cove, NY, USA
notes:
   James Stevenson-Mathews has published tunes under the name  James Stevenson earlier, e.g. in "The Tin Woodman and other dances".
  He is typically addressed as Jim. Thus, one may also find  tunes/dances of him as Jim Stevenson(-Mathews).


last_modified: 2015-11-01 19:57:25.764526+00
name: Clark, Kathy & Meyer, Robin
display_name: Clark, Kathy & Meyer, Robin
notes:
  Spelling changed from Meyers to Meyer, as this is how Robin's surmane name is spelt on the original text of "Kabin Fever"


last_modified: 2015-11-08 21:39:04.141694+00
name: Upton, Charles
display_name: Charles Upton
email: minicrib@care4free.net
notes:
  Charles Upton was the originator of MiniCrib - the "database" of dance cribs used by so many dancers and dance groups around the world.
  He also was a long time active member of Deeside Caledonian Society, Wirral, UK.  

  Charles Upton passed away on Wednesday 4th November 2015.


last_modified: 2016-03-13 13:00:49.452893+00
name: Bond, Paul
display_name: Paul Bond
location: Rotherham, England
notes:
  Paul Bond, Hon. President of RSCDS Sheffield branch, passed away during the night from March 12 to March 13, 2016. 

  If you did not know him personally then you may have know him for the CardCribs he produced for many years, the crib sheets for Summer School that he produced for many years or the Yorkshire and NE England dance diary that, again, he produced for many years.


last_modified: 2016-07-21 10:12:16.914337+00
name: Hutton, Claude
display_name: Claude Hutton
location: Canada
email: cwhutton@shaw.ca
notes:
  Claude had danced only for about ten years however SCD had become a passion. He was successful in his Preliminary Exam in Scotland in 2004 and has begun to teach. He was president of the Saskatchewan Branch during the centennial year 2005.
  (Information from the RSCDS Saskatchewan Branch Centennial Collection 2005)


created: 2016-04-05 21:21:14.678497+00
last_modified: 2016-04-05 21:21:14.678497+00
name: McGibbon, William
display_name: William McGibbon
location: Edinburgh, Scotland
notes:
  William McGibbon (1690-1757) was a life-long Edinburgh native, born to a professional oboist of some reputation named Malcolm McGibbon. As a teenager he traveled to London to study with William Corbett, taking tutelage in violin and composition. He returned to Edinburgh sometime after 1716, and next is mentioned on the roster of the Edinburgh Music Society in the winter of 1726-27. He concertized regularly, and eventually became an employee of the Society where he became concertmaster. He composed in the classical style, producing three concerti, an overture (now lost), four sets of six sonatas (for two violins/flutes with basso continuo), six sonatas for flute/violin and basso continuo, six sonatas for two flutes, three collections of Scots tunes, and folktune variations for solo violin. McGibbon not only realized a salary and fees from concertizing with the Society, but he also sold copies of the parts of his compositions to the orchestra. The Society, however, also played Scottish music along with classical fare, the Scottish influences can be found in the technically proficient violinist's compositions, many of which include elements of traditional fiddling incorporated into classical violin technique and composition forms.
  (information from http://tunearch.org)


last_modified: 2016-04-25 15:59:00.938269+00
name: McKenzie, Ian
display_name: Ian McKenzie
location: Stockton on Tees, UK
notes:
  Ian McKenzie from Stockton-on-Tees has died aged 87.   Ian was active on the Country dance scene for over 50 years.  Being a founder member of the Teesside Branch, he and his wife Joan traveled all over the UK and overseas to dance, with friends frae ‘a’ the airts.  Ian will be remembered by many dancers.

  On SCDDB his surname was formerly misspelt "MacKenzie".  Corrected 2016-04-24.  Eric


last_modified: 2016-07-21 10:22:34.782316+00
name: Gibson, Jean
display_name: Jean Gibson
location: Canada
notes:
  Jean began dancing in England many years ago with Derek Haynes. She has danced and taught in both Great Britain and Canada. She was fully certificated in 1997.
  <BR>(Information from the RSCDS Saskatchewan Branch Centennial Collection 2005)


last_modified: 2016-07-21 10:23:54.95496+00
name: Williams, Craig
display_name: Craig Williams
location: Ottawa
notes:
  Craig was born and lived IN Saskatoon until 2000 when work forced him to move to Ottawa. He began Scottish Country Dance in 1990 and began to show a distinct talent for creating dances soon after. He was successful in his Preliminary Exam in 2004.
  <BR>(Information from the RSCDS Saskatchewan Branch Centennial Collection 2005)


last_modified: 2016-07-21 10:22:01.116048+00
name: Ogilvie, Olive
display_name: Olive Ogilvie
location: Saskatchewan
notes:
  Olive Ogilvie was a dedicated teacher and dancer of the RSCDS Saskatchewan Branch. She was born November 5, 1930 in Dundee, Scotland and died October 31, 2006 in Regina, Saskatchewan (Canada).

  Olive was married to <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/3643/|George Ogilvie>>, another active member of the Saskatchewan Branch.

  There is an <<http://rscdssask.org/In_Memoriam/olive_ogilvie.htm|comprehensive obituary>> at the Saskatchewan Branch home page.


last_modified: 2016-07-21 10:22:25.385934+00
name: Ogilvie, George
display_name: George Ogilvie
location: Canada
notes:
  George has been dancing for many years. A native of Scotland, in 1978 he assisted his wife in establishing Tayside Scottish Country Dancers in Regina. He and <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/3642/|Olive>> successfully started SCD In Yorkton and Moose Jaw.
  George served as secretary of the Saskatchewan Branch for many years. He continues to support <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/3642/|his wife>> in her teaching.
  <BR>(Information from the RSCDS Saskatchewan Branch Centennial Collection 2005)


last_modified: 2016-05-31 22:31:20.073138+00
name: Schmidt, Heiko A
display_name: Heiko A Schmidt
location: Vienna, Austria
notes:
  Heiko Schmidt has danced in dance groups in various location like Heidelberg (Germany), Berlin (Germany) and Vienna (Austria).


created: 2016-05-12 16:16:53.439625+00
last_modified: 2016-06-06 00:26:51.542731+00
name: Hamilton, James Stanley 'Jimmy'
shortname: Jimmy Hamilton
display_name: James Stanley 'Jimmy' Hamilton
location: Ayrshire
notes:
  Jimmy (James Stanley) Hamilton was born at Tarholm near Annbank in 1904. He was married to Mary Hamilton of Auchincruive. Their son Stan (also James Stanley) Hamilton was born 1928 in Ayrshire.

  Jimmy Hamilton was fiddler and a fisher. Jimmy had his own Scottish Country Dance Band that played at the Pavilion and the Gaiety in Ayr.

  In 1966 Jimmy and Mary Hamilton moved from Auchincruive to Canada to be with their son Stan who had emigrated to Canada in 1957.
  By 1968  Jimmy and Mary Hamilton moved back to Ayr.

  Jimmy died in Ayr after a heart attack.

  According to the <<http://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/stan-hamilton.html|Box and Fiddle archive>> and Iain Boyd's book <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/publication/600/|All Kinds Of Everything>>, Jimmy Hamilton was the composer of the tune <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/tune/1086/|Mary Hamilton of Auchincruive>> that is named after his wife.

  (Sources: <<https://thesession.org/tunes/12052|The Session>>, <<http://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/stan-hamilton.html|Box and Fiddle archive>>, and obituary in <<http://www.dancescottish.ca/archives-set%26link.html|Toronto Set+Link>> Oct 2007)


last_modified: 2016-09-02 18:47:52.303537+00
name: Mills, Andrew 'Andy'
display_name: Andrew 'Andy' Mills
location: Virginia Beach, VA, USA
notes:
  Andy Mills is originally from NZ, but since about 1990 he lived in the USA. Currently he lives in Virginia Beach, VA.

  When he devised the two dances "Andrew's Dance" and "The Thrang Wynd", he went by the name Andrew Mills. However, for the last 40 years, he has only ever been known as Andy Mills.

  (Source: Andy Mills, 2016)


last_modified: 2016-09-28 16:21:59.029266+00
name: Rankine, Andrew
display_name: Andrew Rankine
notes:
  Andrew Rankine (1930-1985) was a Scottish accordionist, band leader and composer.

  He was born 1930 in Aberdeen and grew up in Menstrie. He started playing the accordion only at the age of 16, but had his first broadcast about five years later in 1951. He was leading a band until 1960 when he moved to Whitley Bay and in 1963 to Leicester. Finally, in 1984 he left for California and establish The Scottish Heritage Centre close to The Queen Mary at Longed Beach. 

  A year later, in 1985, Andrew Rankine died of a heart attack being only 53 years of age.

  For more information see the page about Andrew Rankine at the <<http://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/andrew-rankine1.html|Box and Fiddle archive>>.


last_modified: 2016-09-28 16:25:08.67208+00
name: Gonnella, Ron
shortname: Ron Gonnella
display_name: Ron Gonnella
notes:
  There is a long article about Ron Gonnella at the <<http://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/mar-1994.html|box and fiddle archive>>.


last_modified: 2016-12-17 21:21:22.309939+00
name: Linklater-Shirras, M
display_name: M Linklater-Shirras
location: RSCDS Inverness
notes:
  "Link" as she was affectionately known was very active in the Inverness Branch over the years as a dancer and in her roles as treasurer and secretary.


created: 2017-11-06 18:46:39.912363+00
last_modified: 2017-11-07 00:56:06.989982+00
name: Connolly, William J
display_name: William J Connolly
notes:
  Famous Scottish comedian, actor, musician and TV/radio presenter better known as <<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Connolly|Billy Connolly>>.


last_modified: 2017-02-12 12:48:19.386169+00
name: Sharpe, Charles
display_name: Charles Sharpe
notes:
  According to <<http://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Mr._Sharpe%27s_Delight|tunearch.org>>:

  > Sharpe was the son of William Kirkpatrick of Ailsland, a younger brother
  > of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, 3rd Baronet of Closeburn. On inheriting Hoddom
  > Castle, Dumfriesshire, in the Borders, Charles changed his name to
  > Sharpe, the name of his uncle’s line, from whom he inherited the estate.
  > He set to work on the castle, repairing and improving it, and adding
  > several rooms. Sharpe had a reputation as an excellent violinist, and also
  > composed music and verse. He was a friend and correspondent of Robert 
  > Burns.

  Sometimes spelled “Sharp” (without the final “e”).


last_modified: 2017-03-08 01:32:08.39153+00
name: Flying Ghillies Scottish Country Dancers, The
display_name: The Flying Ghillies Scottish Country Dancers
location: Dayton, OH, USA
notes:
  Established in 2001, the Flying Ghillies Scottish Country Dancers are the Dayton, Ohio “twig” of the Cincinnati Branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.


created: 2017-03-03 00:49:51.051664+00
last_modified: 2019-10-24 23:56:17.550287+00
name: Marchand, Bevan
display_name: Bevan Marchand
location: Oxford, UK
email: highlandbevan@yahoo.com
notes:
  My dances are Copyright Bevan Marchand 1998-2006. Permission is granted to freely reproduce and distribute, providing no charge is made. I hope you enjoy them!


created: 2017-03-10 16:05:52.782833+00
last_modified: 2017-03-11 00:56:16.624331+00
name: Minicrib
display_name: Minicrib
location: Wirral, UK
email: minicrib@minicrib.org.uk
notes:
  The late Charles Upton started publishing SCD cribs under the name of Minicribs.  His work is now being continued by David Haynes and his team.  Minicribs are one of the crib collections included in SCDDB.

  As the website http://www.minicrib.org.uk/publish.html is open for anyone to publish dance descriptions, SCDDB now classifies that website as a "publication", so that links can be made to those original descriptions.


created: 2017-04-05 09:51:29.9378+00
last_modified: 2017-04-05 23:56:09.611592+00
name: Goodhart, Al
display_name: Al Goodhart
location: USA
notes:
  Al Goodhart lived from January 26, 1905 to November 30, 1955. During his lifetime he was a radio announcer, vaudeville pianist and special materials writer.

  He collaborated, among others, with Al Hoffman, Maurice Sigler, Mann Curtis, Sammy Lerner, Ed Nelson, Kay Twomey and Allan Roberts.


created: 2017-04-05 09:38:28.201986+00
last_modified: 2017-04-05 23:56:22.630628+00
name: Sigler, Maurice
display_name: Maurice Sigler
notes:
  Maurice Sigler was an American composer, lyricist, conductor and producer.

  For more information see <<http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/notable_writers/C5039|songwriters hall of fame>> or <<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Sigler|Wikipedia>>.


created: 2017-11-06 18:31:39.940686+00
last_modified: 2017-11-07 00:56:17.005449+00
name: MacGlashan, John
display_name: John MacGlashan
notes:
  Lived around the turn of the 19th century. May or may not have been related to <<ddp:MacGlashan, Alexander|Alexander MacGlashan>>.


last_modified: 2017-04-22 00:28:52.694697+00
name: Hinchcliffe, Audrey
display_name: Audrey Hinchcliffe
location: Leeds, UK
notes:
  Audrey Hinchcliffe was member of the Leeds Branch of the RSCDS. 
  As secretary of the Branch she was also involved in the organization of the Leeds Festival ran by the club. 
  Later she was made Honorary President.

  At some point she moved to Foxhill Court, North of Leeds. In her flat there she hosted people and most of the Bands who came from Scotland to play.

  Jimmy Shand, Sr., composed a tune named "<<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/tune/1135/|Miss Audrey Hinchcliffe's Strathspey>>", John Mitchell devised a <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/285/|dance with the same name>> published in the <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/publication/459/|Whetherly Book 9>>, and John Drewry wrote the dance "<<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/2321/|Foxhill Court>>" for her which is published in his <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/publication/207/|Canadian Book>>.

  For more information there is a Tribute to Audrey Hinchcliffe in the Leeds Newsletter 74, August 2014 (available at <<http://www.rscdsleeds.org.uk/newsletters.html|http://www.rscdsleeds.org.uk/newsletters.html>>).


last_modified: 2017-06-10 01:45:32.512655+00
name: Schneckenburger, Lissa & Pixton, Tom
shortname: Schneckenburger/Pixton
display_name: Lissa Schneckenburger & Tom Pixton
location: USA
notes:
  The lineup for the CD 'Scottish in Salem' in 2003 was Lissa Schneckenburger (fiddle), Tom Pixton (piano/accordion), Howard Lasnick and Paul Henle (percussion), and Barbara Pixton (bass).


last_modified: 2017-09-27 03:46:47.641398+00
name: Sinton, John
display_name: John Sinton
notes:
  John Sinton played double bass in Jim Macleod's band.

  John Drewry has dedicated a dance to him, "The Big Fiddle".


last_modified: 2017-07-27 16:18:34.572186+00
name: McLaren, Nicol & The Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
shortname: Nicol McLaren
display_name: Nicol McLaren & The Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
location: Pitlochry, Scotland
notes:
  Nicol McLaren formed The Glencraig Scottish Dance Band in 1983.

  For Line-ups on different CDs see the entry of the <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/10209/|The Glencraig Scottish Dance Band>>.


last_modified: 2017-07-27 15:13:27.306424+00
name: Mancini, Henry
display_name: Henry Mancini
location: Los Angeles, USA
notes:
  Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, arranger and musician. 
  He is best remembered for his film and television scores. 
  He won 4 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and 20 Grammy Awards. In addition he was awarded a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.

  Among his best known works are "The Pink Panther Theme" (the theme to "The Pink Panther" film series"), "Moon River" (to the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's") and the theme for the Peter Gunn television series.

  Also posthumously in April 2004, he was honored by the US Postal Service presenting a stamp commemorating his lifetime achievements in film music, and to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film The Pink Panther.

  For an overview about Henry Mancini's live and achievements have a look the <<http://www.henrymancini.com/|official website>> and his <<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mancini|Wikipedia entry>>.


last_modified: 2017-08-23 18:43:37.116803+00
name: Macfarlane, Peter
display_name: Peter Macfarlane
location: Addison, VT, USA
email: mail@ottercreeksmallcraft.com
notes:
  Peter Macfarlane grew up in the United Kingdom, where he developed his characteristic Scottish fiddle style. There he played regularly for Scottish dances and weddings, including performing in Continental Europe.

  During this time he also recorded the CD "Invercauld" (2003) together with Lilian Linden on the Piano.

  The collaboration with Lilian Linden ended when Peter emigrated to Vermont, USA in 2003.

  Together with Viveka Fox, Aaron Marcus and Hollis Easter he plays in the band <<http://www.frostandfireband.com/|Frost and Fire>> that was formed in 2010 and is playing for Scottish, contra and other dances.

  In addition, Peter is the co-founder and musical director of the <<http://www.cvsfc.org|Champlain Valley Scottish Fiddle Club>>.


last_modified: 2017-07-27 16:28:04.452146+00
name: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band, The
shortname: Glencraig
display_name: The Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
location: Pitlochry, Scotland
notes:
  Nicol McLaren formed The Glencraig Scottish Dance Band in 1983.

  Line-ups on different CDs:

  - "The Sunday Class Christmas CD" (2016):
  Nicol McLaren (lead accordion),
  Neil Caul (2nd accordion),
  Gordon Howe (fiddle),
  Isobelle Hodgson (piano),
  John Sinton (double bass),
  David Bell (drums) and
  Alex Hodgson (bells &amp; whistles)

  - "Old Time Dances - Ah'm Dancin'" (2012): 
  Nicol McLaren (lead accordion), 
  Gordon Howe (fiddle), 
  Neil Caul (second accordion), 
  Isobelle Hodgson (piano),
  John Sinton (double bass) and 
  Robert Simpson (drums).

  - "Scottish Country Dances - Ah'm Askin'" (2010):
  Nicol McLaren (lead accordion), 
  Gordon Howe (fiddle), 
  Neil Caul (2nd accordion), 
  Isobelle Hodgson (piano), 
  John Sinton (bass) and 
  David Bell (drums).

  - "RSCDS Book 20" (2008):
  Nicol McLaren (lead accordion), 
  Neil Caul (2nd accordion),
  Gordon Howe (fiddle), 
  David Bell (drums),
  Isobelle Hodgson (piano) and
  John Sinton (double bass).

  - "The Reel Party - Are Ye Askin'?" (2007): 
  Nicol McLaren (lead accordion), 
  Isobelle Hodgson (piano), 
  Gordon Howe (fiddle), 
  Neil Caul (2nd accordion), 
  John Sinton (double bass) and 
  David Bell (drums).

  - "The Glencraig Scottish Dance Band - The Ceilidh - Are Ye Dancin'?" (2006): 
  Nicol McLaren (lead accordion), 
  Isobelle Hodgson (piano), 
  Davie Bell (drums), 
  Gordon Howe (fiddle), 
  Neil Caul (2nd accordion) and 
  John Sinton (double bass). 

  - "Clashmadin Volume One" (2000):
  Nicol McLaren (accordion), 
  Neil Caul (accordion), 
  Gordon Howe (fiddle), 
  Maureen Rutherford (piano), 
  David Bell (drums) and 
  Suzanne Croy (bass).

  - "Note 'n' Away" (1998):
  Nicol McLaren (accordion), 
  Neil Caul (accordion), 
  Maureen Rutherford (piano, vocals), 
  Gordon Howe (fiddle), 
  Suzanne Gray (bass) and 
  David Bell (drums).

  - "Craigievar Dances" (1997):
  Nicol McLaren (accordion), 
  Neil Caul (accordion), 
  Maureen Rutherford (piano), 
  Gordon Howe (fiddle), 
  Suzanne Gray (bass) and 
  David Bell (drums)


created: 2015-07-19 12:57:52.623038+00
last_modified: 2017-07-28 04:17:26.514831+00
name: Handel, George Frideric
shortname: G F Handel
display_name: George Frideric Handel
location: London, UK
notes:
  George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel born as Georg Friedrich H&auml;ndel was a German and later British baroque composer.


last_modified: 2017-08-21 12:51:27.304109+00
name: Dix, Ann
display_name: Ann Dix
notes:
  Ann Dix was awarded the RSCDS Scroll of Honour, which was proclaimed at the Society AGM on Saturday November 2nd, 2013, unfortunately the day after her death. 


  In St Andrews there is a park bench in Kinburn Park, close to the St Andrews Museum, that is dedicated to the memory of Ann Dix. It states: <em>"In fond memory of Ann Dix (1942-2013), much loved by her sons Simon and Tim, her family and her friends. Her enthusiasm and thoughtfulness will be missed by all, including her many Scottish country dancing friends here and around the world."</em>
  There are two pictures of the bench in the <<http://rscds-bhs.org.uk/gallery.html|photo gallery>> of the <<http://rscds-bhs.org.uk/|Berks/Hants/Surrey Border Branch>> webpage.


created: 2018-01-19 13:52:56.629379+00
last_modified: 2018-01-20 00:56:13.212436+00
name: Heidelberg SchloB Dancers
display_name: Heidelberg SchloB Dancers
location: Heidelberg, Germany
notes:
  The name relates to the many tourist coming to Heidelberg and wanting to see Heidelberg Castle (Heidelberger Schlo&szlig;). If they cannot find their way there, you often get asked "Could you tell me where the SchloB is?" - not being aware that the '&szlig;' ist not a 'B' but should in fact be pronounced like 'ss'.

  ...often an obvious answer would be: "If you look up from your map you could actually see it..."


last_modified: 2018-05-19 15:54:20.195755+00
name: Agnew, Peter
display_name: Peter Agnew
notes:
  “A house-painter to trade, and a poet by chance, Peter Agnew was a native of Perth, and lived in the South Street in 1793. Very early in life he gave evidence of being possessed of rare musical talent, and learned to play on the violin, an instrument over which he soon obtained an almost complete mastery, and with which he lived to charm the ills of many a luckless day. On the completion of his 'prentice time Agnew went to Glasgow, and from thence, in a few years, to London, from whence he again, after a few more years, returned to the commercial capital of his native Caledonia, where he wore out the bulk of his after-lease. His life appears to have been a somewhat chequered one, the grim visage of poverty frequently staring him in the face, and, if not actually sconcing herself at his fireside, being represented there on an occasion by her foster-friend, the beagle. An excellent violinist, a fair landscape painter, a capital singer of songs, a pleasing writer of verses, and an entertaining story-teller, perhaps Peter Agnew had too many accomplishments to be eminently successful in any.”  – Robert Ford, *The Harp of Perthshire* (1893)


created: 2017-08-23 16:11:23.99335+00
last_modified: 2017-08-24 09:48:47.73178+00
name: Frost and Fire
display_name: Frost and Fire
location: Burlington, VT, USA
email: booking@frostandfireband.com
notes:
  Viveka Fox, Peter Macfarlane, Aaron Marcus and Hollis Easter are the members of the band "Frost and Fire". Having played informally together on stage in 2010, the band was actually formed in 2011. They play for Scottish, contra and other dances. "Frost and Fire" is based in Burlington, Vermont in the US.


  The following information is taken from the <<http://www.frostandfireband.com/bio/|band's webpage>>:

  Frost and Fire began taking shape in July 2010 at the Champlain Valley Folk Festival in Burlington, VT. Viveka and Peter invited Aaron and Hollis to join them on stage, and as the dancers whirled and cheered, their shared energy kindled this new collaboration. As winter swept across the North, we stayed in touch, thinking about tunes and new directions.

  Fast forward to the blazing summer heat of 2011, which found us on stage making music drawn from all points of the compass, our faces lit with joy and laughter, surrounded by dancers aflame with energy. At the band’s first gig in Rochester, VT, the dancing ran long into the evening–neither dancers nor band were ready for the music to stop.

  Frost and Fire takes its name from T. S. Eliot’s Quartet 4, Little Gidding:

     <P><EM>“Midwinter spring is its own season
      <BR>Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
      <BR>Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
      <BR>When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
      <BR>The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
      <BR>In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,
      <BR>Reflecting in a watery mirror
      <BR>A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.
      <BR>And glow more intense than blaze of branch, or brazier,
      <BR>Stirs the dumb spirit: no wind, but pentecostal fire
      <BR>In the dark time of the year. Between melting and freezing
      <BR>The soul’s sap quivers.”</EM></P>


last_modified: 2017-08-23 22:01:48.265909+00
name: Invercauld Scottish Dance Band
shortname: Invercauld Band
display_name: Invercauld Scottish Dance Band
location: Jersey, Channel Islands
notes:
  Some information from the band's webpage and other sources:

  The Invercauld Scottish Dance Band consists of Lilian Linden (piano) and friends (fiddles, accordion, drums).

  In October 1997, Lilian Linden formed a Scottish dance band (now called the Invercauld Scottish Dance Band). The band has played for Scottish Country Dances and Balls, New Year's Eve Dances, St Andrew's Nights, Burns' Nights, Weddings, Ceilidhs, Concerts, Charity Dances, and other fund-raising events, as well as Reeling Dances for Reelers, Parties and other functions with a Scottish flavour.

  At some point it came to choosing a name for the band. The name "The Invercauld Scottish Dance Band" relates to Lilian's Scottish ancestors, the Farquharsons of Invercauld, which have been traced back to the sixteenth century, to the start of the Farquharson Clan.

  The line-up  Peter Macfarlane / Lilian Linden can be seen in the continuity from beginnings in 1997 to the Invercauld Scottish Dance Band, as the CD recorded by the two musicians already carries the catalog number "Invercauld001". The collaboration with Peter Macfarlane ended when he emigrated to the US in 2003.

  The band has previously played extensively in and around London, Surrey, Hampshire and the Home Counties, and occasionally in Oxford, Cambridge, Kent, Sussex and Wiltshire. They have also played further afield in the UK and Europe, including Scotland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Guernsey and Jersey.

  Since summer 2009 Lilian and the Invercauld Scottish Dance Band are based and play in Jersey in the Channel Islands, since Lilian's move back there. However, the band will also continue to play in the UK and further afield.


created: 2017-09-26 20:53:04.046362+00
last_modified: 2017-09-26 23:56:19.258436+00
name: Quick Scotch
display_name: Quick Scotch
location: Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
notes:
  The Russian Scottish country dance group Quick Scotch was founded in 2009.

  Since then they have organized a number of dancing events that inspired them to devise some of the dances included in this book "Book of Records".


last_modified: 2017-09-27 23:56:08.064707+00
name: Doig, Alex
display_name: Alex Doig
notes:
  Alex Doig was a drummer who played with Jim MacLeod’s Dance Band in the 1970s. 

  He composed tunes like "Tam O' Shanter" (but there is more that one tune with that name). 

  John Drewry dedicated a dance to him that is called "Alex Doig's Jig", but which is also know as "The Dunblane Drummer". Furthermore, there is tunes carying his name ("Alex Doig's Jig").


last_modified: 2018-07-31 13:03:25.770861+00
name: Torfason, Louis (Torf)
display_name: Torf
location: Austin, Texas
email: torf@io.com
notes:
  Louis Torfason typically only uses his nickname Torf to sign his dances.

  Unfortunately, Torf died in morning of 24 July 2018.

  Torf got a Branch Award by the Houston + District Branch during the term 2012-2013.


created: 2018-09-18 22:31:22.065736+00
last_modified: 2018-09-18 22:31:22.065736+00
name: Hawkins, Matt
display_name: Matt Hawkins
location: Alabama, USA
notes:
  Matt Hawkins, who is now a space scientist in Huntsville, Al. He was a fine leader while at ISU of the Celtic Dance Society and a regular at all Scottish events, English Country dance, and contra dance.


last_modified: 2018-10-24 20:56:15.648325+00
name: Scottish National Dance Company
shortname: SNDC
display_name: Scottish National Dance Company
location: Reading, UK
notes:
  The SNDC (Scottish National Dance Company) offered Scottish Dance descriptions, books and music by mail order, world wide.

  Unfortunately, the shop was closed down in 2010. The remaining stock was sold in a clearance sale about October/November 2010.

  Hence, the old web page (http://www.sndc.co.uk/) and old email address (kelpi@sndc.i-way.co.uk) of the SNDC is not active anymore.


last_modified: 2024-03-25 16:12:39.216475+00
name: Fryer, Cliff
display_name: Cliff Fryer
location: Harrow, UK
notes:
  Cliff Fryer was HDCS (Harrow and District Caledonian Society) President in 1989-90, 1990-91, 1995-96, 2003-04.


created: 2014-01-06 00:50:18.453443+00
last_modified: 2018-10-29 16:43:21.010471+00
name: Freemantle, Reuben
display_name: Reuben Freemantle
location: Newbury, Berkshire RG14.
notes:
  Reuben Freemantle is the publisher of <<http://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com|Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary>> and the author of the MaxiCrib Dance Instructions in there.


last_modified: 2018-11-13 23:19:54.993684+00
name: Kerr, James S
display_name: James S Kerr
notes:
  See http://www.nigelgatherer.com/books/kerr/kmm.html for lists of tunes in the various Kerr publications.


created: 2018-11-15 00:20:49.217109+00
last_modified: 2018-11-15 00:56:16.682617+00
name: Hart, Peter
display_name: Peter Hart
notes:
  Nom-de-plume for Frederik Peter Hargreaves (according to https://www.discogs.com/artist/681488-Peter-Hart).


last_modified: 2018-12-06 19:04:09.095194+00
name: Surenne, John Thomas
display_name: John Surenne
notes:
  In issue 1329 (http://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/1329/) Finlay Forbes describes Surenne as a collector rather than a composer.


created: 2013-06-14 05:48:15.601418+00
last_modified: 2019-02-17 08:01:09.827488+00
name: McGinley, Helen
display_name: Helen McGinley
location: Dublin SCD Club and RSCDS International Branch
email: nellifant@ymail.com
notes:
  Helen writes:  Helen Bonar was my own name. From August 1995 until November 2012 I was Helen Beaney. In November 2012 I married Jack McGinley and took his name (hence Mrs McGinley's Strathspey).


last_modified: 2019-02-17 11:59:27.699794+00
name: Beaney, Helen
display_name: Helen Beaney
location: Dublin SCD Club and RSCDS International Branch
notes:
  Helen writes: Helen Bonar was my own name. From August 1995 until November 2012 I was Helen Beaney. In November 2012 I married Jack McGinley and took his name (hence Mrs McGinley's Strathspey).


last_modified: 2019-03-08 17:07:09.344531+00
name: Ford, Tommy
display_name: Tommy Ford
notes:
  Tommy Ford played Lead accordion in Jim MacLeod's band.

  There is an obituary at https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/tommy-ford-2017.html


created: 2019-07-22 21:18:05.319188+00
last_modified: 2019-07-23 00:20:52.331783+00
name: Christian Petersen and Gunnar Numeus
display_name: Christian Petersen and Gunnar Numeus
location: Copenhagen and Gothenburg
notes:
  These publishers decided to fulfil a dream that they both had, to collect and publish dances devised by Scandinavians or people who live or had lived in Scandinavia.  The dacnes date back to the 1980s. (SC Dancer, no 28, April 2019)


last_modified: 2019-11-03 23:38:03.35503+00
name: Cameron, Charles
display_name: Charles Cameron
notes:
  There is some information about Charles Cameron in <<https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/captain-craig-brown.html|this article>> about his tune <<ddt:Captain Craig Brown#4415>>.


last_modified: 2019-11-04 12:08:09.361586+00
name: Wallace, John
shortname: J Wallace
display_name: John Wallace
notes:
  Although mostly referred to just as J Wallace it seems likely he was John Wallace judging by this <<https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/cts-empress.html|this Box and Fiddle article>>.


last_modified: 2019-11-14 09:15:59.576225+00
name: Irvine Valley Scottish Dance Quartet
shortname: Irvine Valley
display_name: Irvine Valley Scottish Dance Band
notes:
  In their set of four Favourite SCDs albums, the band's name is given as Irvine Valley Scottish Dance Quartet for volumes 2 and 3.


last_modified: 2019-12-03 18:13:02.452797+00
name: Cooper, Ronald
display_name: Ronald Cooper
location: Lerwick, Shetland
notes:
  For a short biography see <<https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/ronnie-cooper-1982.html|this Box and Fiddle article>>.


last_modified: 2019-12-14 17:27:11.036511+00
name: Keppie, Maggie & Duncan
display_name: Maggie & Duncan Keppie
notes:
  See <<http://www.minicrib.org.uk/Keppie.html>> for PDFs of all publications by Duncan and Maggie Keppie.


last_modified: 2019-12-20 19:49:19.488843+00
name: Brown, Bobby
display_name: Bobby Brown
location: Mississauga, CANADA
notes:
  There is a biography about Bobby Brown at <<http://www.scotchmist.ca/bobby-brown-bio.html|Scotchmist.ca>> and another article about him at <<https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/may-2011.html>>.


last_modified: 2020-01-20 22:36:21.819477+00
name: Hunter, Willie
shortname: William Hunter
display_name: Willie Hunter
notes:
  Generally known as Willie but sometimes referenced as William.

  There is an obituary in <<https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/willie-hunter-1994.html|this Box and Fiddle page>>.


last_modified: 2020-01-04 23:13:03.476702+00
name: Paddledoo
shortname: Paddledoo
display_name: Paddledoo
notes:
  The site <<http://www.paddledoo.com/>> lists recordings rooted in Scottish music since 1987.

  The main musician is Ed Pearlman, many others have taken part in the recordings.

  As mentioned in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/1969/|issue 1969>> their album is also mentioned with the band name given as <<ddp:Boston Hospitality>>.


created: 2015-07-09 00:32:00.776908+00
last_modified: 2020-01-20 22:17:53.619702+00
name: Robson, Maureen
display_name: Maureen Robson
location: Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand.
notes:
  Maureen Robson was tutor of the Tawa SCD Club in Tawa, Wellington, New
  Zealand for 38 years until November 2019.


last_modified: 2020-06-17 15:12:05.041666+00
name: Robertson, Ian
display_name: Ian Robertson
location: UK
email: ibrobertson@btinternet.com
notes:
  Ian was formerly entered in the database as "Ian B Robertson" but he prefers not to use his middle initial.


last_modified: 2020-01-26 22:38:39.440066+00
name: Rennie, Adam
display_name: Adam Rennie
notes:
  There is a short biography in <<https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/adam-rennie.html|this Box and Fiddle article>>.


last_modified: 2020-02-05 10:04:41.937931+00
name: Marshall, William
display_name: William Marshall
notes:
  A compilation of several volumes of Marshall's tunes is available <<https://www.worldcat.org/title/marshalls-scottish-melodies-airs-strathspeys-reels-jigs-c-for-the-violin-being-a-compilation-of-four-volumes-published-separately-in-the-19th-century-by-various-houses/oclc/5792599|here>>. It is not clear if this is the same as any of the publications listed for him in the database as they only contain a few of these tunes and have more abbreviated titles.


last_modified: 2020-09-28 22:23:47.403527+00
name: Hamilton, Peggy
display_name: Peggy Hamilton
location: Stockton, CA, USA
email: shadowcatdancer@me.com
notes:
  Peggy Hamilton is a Board Member of the Sacramento, California branch of the RSCDS.

  second e-address:  ShadowCatDancing@sbcglobal.net


created: 2014-06-27 14:03:33.339197+00
last_modified: 2020-03-24 00:00:59.785014+00
name: Dugan, Ray
display_name: Ray Dugan
location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
email: rayandsylvia@sympatico.ca
notes:
  Dr. John Raymond Dugan (Ray), a retired professor of French at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has been involved with Scottish Country Dancing since the early 1980’s. He received his full RSCDS teaching certificate in Toronto in 1997. Since then, he has taught classes with the Kitchener-Waterloo branch of the RSCDS and the Caledonian Scottish Country Dancers of Stratford, Ontario.

  He has also been a guest teacher with various other groups, including Halburton, Ontario; Paris, France; and Sarasota, Florida. He and his wife Sylvia live in Waterloo, Ontario with their much beloved English Springer Spaniel, Murphy.


last_modified: 2020-12-29 17:02:53.486975+00
name: Turner, Moira J
display_name: Moira Turner
location: Chesterfield (Greater Richmond), Virginia, USA
email: MoiraJTurner@aol.com
notes:
  Freely downloadable recordings of music for many of Moira Turner's dances can be found at <<http://www.fiddletree-music.com/johnturner/scdrecordings.html>>


last_modified: 2020-07-31 21:16:19.58658+00
name: Skelton, Barry
display_name: Barry Skelton
email: barry.skelton@xtra.co.nz
notes:
  A very nice video of Barry explaining his dance "Pelorus Jack" and the music is attached to that dance, and is also accessible on youtube at
  <<http://youtu.be/qIg2H6gew7Y>>


created: 2019-02-20 21:00:36.647328+00
last_modified: 2020-08-24 09:17:29.54099+00
name: Flett, Joan
display_name: Joan Flett
notes:
  This <<https://youtu.be/qgkRZ1H0lko|video>> from 1993 shows Joan Flett describing the dance collecting expeditions with her husband Tom.


last_modified: 2021-10-04 16:03:46.737437+00
name: Glasspool, Terry
display_name: Terry Glasspool
location: Vestal, NY, USA
email: tglasspool@stny.rr.com
notes:
  His former website is accessible via the <<https://web.archive.org/web/20050221032222/http://home.stny.rr.com/glasshall/dances.html|wayback machine>> archive.


last_modified: 2020-04-07 14:51:06.477748+00
name: Crowe, Robert Forsyth
display_name: Robert Forsyth Crowe
notes:
  Also known as Bobby Crowe.

  There is a <<https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/bobby-crowe-2014.html|Box and Fiddle article>> about him.


last_modified: 2020-04-21 23:26:37.470809+00
name: Johnstone, Muriel A
shortname: Muriel Johnstone
display_name: Muriel A Johnstone
location: Pitlochry, Perthshire
email: murieljohnstone@scotscores.com
notes:
  ##>>
  A long interview with Muriel was included in the first issue of the Society magazine, *The Scottish country dancer*, in the Autumn of 2005. The introduction to that article reads:

  Muriel Johnstone, the most prolific composer of Scottish country dance music ever, and one of the Society’s best-loved musicians, grew up in the Ayrshire port of Ardrossan in a family steeped in country dancing and country dance music. Both her parents were dancers. Her mother, Dorothy Johnstone, the well-known class musician, played at Summer School for many years. Muriel started ballet at the age of three, but from the age of eight till she went to university, she attended the branch children’s class, taught by Ann Hughes.  

  Her branch was North West Ayrshire, founded by Alastair Aitkenhead as a young man straight out of Jordanhill. Muriel then studied music at Edinburgh University, dancing with New Scotland. She then trained as a teacher at Moray House College of Education. While there she took her preliminary Certificate, but it was not till 1990 that she took her Full Certificate. From 1977 till 2002 Muriel was responsible for arranging the Society’s music. After living in the States for some years, she and her husband and fellow teacher, Bill Zobel, moved to Canada.  In 2011, Muriel and Bill returned to Scotland and now reside in Pitlochry, Perthshire.
    
  Note April 2020: Muriel and Bill have the website https://scotscores.com, where more information is available


created: 2013-01-21 23:45:10.154829+00
last_modified: 2020-09-30 10:13:15.318553+00
name: Lomath, James
display_name: James Lomath
location: San Francisco, USA
notes:
  James Lomath died in Santa Monica, California on June 16, 2018. An obituary was published in San Francisco newsletter, The Reel and Strathspeyper, Vol 55 No 1, Sept/Oct 2018
  <<https://rscds-sf.org/newsletters/pdf/2018.09.pdf>>.


created: 2020-09-13 21:31:52.423485+00
last_modified: 2020-09-13 21:32:13.204198+00
name: Kynaston, Nathaniel
display_name: Nathaniel Kynaston
notes:
  Active in the early 18th century as a deviser or dances and composer of tunes. But otherwise little is known of him (according to https://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/webrevs/wgs298cd.htm).


last_modified: 2020-09-19 22:03:50.588441+00
name: Pringle, John
display_name: John Pringle
notes:
  This information about John Pringle has been distilled from issues <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2174/|2174>> and <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2175/|2175>>.

  He was born in 1770, probably in the Borders, but settled in Edinburgh. He was a fiddler and composer and also described as a dancing master. He was half brother to John Howison who was also a fiddler.

  He published two collections of tunes 1801 and 1802. Some of these were used for SCD and some for step dance, eg Robinslaw, for Highland Ladies (Rene Fidler). He was credited with writing the tune for "Dance to your Daddy, my bonny Babby", still a popular Tyneside folk song.

  He accompanied Lord Minto to Calcutta but unfortunately died shortly after arriving though the exact date is not known.


last_modified: 2020-09-27 08:38:03.127085+00
name: Dee, Sally
display_name: Sally Dee
location: Cambridge, MA, USA
notes:
  See also the website <<http://www.pixton.org/scottishinsalem/sally.html>> set up in her honour by some of her friends.


last_modified: 2023-02-03 22:51:42.16619+00
name: Deeside Caledonian Society
display_name: Deeside Caledonian Society
notes:
  This was the group where <<ddp:Upton, Charles#2705>>, creator of MiniCribs, used to dance.

  Sadly after running for 65 years the group closed down in November 2022 (information from <<ddp:Haynes, David#11000|David Haynes>> of the current <<ddp:MiniCrib#11464>> team).


created: 2020-10-29 17:53:48.749654+00
last_modified: 2020-10-30 00:56:51.859368+00
name: MacNiven, Duncan
display_name: Duncan MacNiven
location: Kilchoman, Islay
notes:
  Duncan MacNivan and his brother Charles were born in Wester Ross, but moved later to their fathers home island, Islay. 

  They were known as Bàird Chill-Chomain or Kilchoman Bards.

  For more information see https://www.islayinfo.com/islay-bards-duncan-charles-macniven-kilchoman.html


created: 2020-10-29 16:53:45.432301+00
last_modified: 2020-10-30 00:56:55.808719+00
name: Mclaren Hay, Jacca R A
display_name: Jacca R A Mclaren Hay
location: Stirling
notes:
  Jacca Robina Alison Mclaren Hay and the Hay family used to run Hay’s Music Store in Stirling. (see e.g. https://www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk/hays-music-store-stirling/)

  The piano duo Jenna and Jacca Hay played and recorded records in the mid of the 20th century, some recordings can be found online at https://raretunes.org/jenna-and-jacca-hay-2/

  She died at the age of 97 and was burried at Ballengeich Cemetery in Stirling. 


created: 2020-10-31 10:41:17.418594+00
last_modified: 2020-10-31 10:41:17.418594+00
name: Pryde, Jimmy
display_name: P/M Jimmy Pryde
location: Bowden, Scotland
notes:
  For obituaries see <<https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/Jimmy-Pryde-1929-2009/|here>> and <<https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12385103.jimmy-pryde/|here>>.


created: 2020-11-08 12:15:39.428529+00
last_modified: 2020-11-08 12:15:39.428529+00
name: Unsworth, Ken
display_name: Ken Unsworth
location: Merseryside, UK
notes:
  Ken is Lancashire & Cheshire Federation of Scottish Societies Chieftain and a member of West Derby Caledonian Society (Liverpool).


created: 2017-03-01 12:08:13.553772+00
last_modified: 2020-11-07 11:03:57.342636+00
name: Chennault, Elizabeth
display_name: Elizabeth Chennault
notes:
  Name found as dance author on the programme of the September Dance Party, Saturday, September 21, 2013,  Austin, TX. There the name is "Channault" but the Danciemation video has "Chennault".


created: 2020-11-10 07:33:08.853087+00
last_modified: 2020-11-11 00:56:42.636521+00
name: Johnston, Roderick Roddy
display_name: Roddy Johnston
location: Maxton, Borders
email: roderick.johnston@icloud.com
notes:
  Information printed in the book “Winds of Change” (2018):

  Roderick (Roddy) Johnston. was brought up in Corby, possibly better known as Little Scotland, Roddy studied the classical accordion from age of 10 and graduated through the British College of Accordionists exam structure to Final Grade. In the ’60s he was regional accordion champion and won a place in the finals of the All British Accordion Championships. He was also a member of the UK Champion Accordion Orchestra. After completing his studies he taught the accordion for a number of years before a change of career took him away from music.

  Since returning to the accordion his love of Scottish Traditional Music has determined his musical direction. He attended Musician courses run by the RSCDS and now plays for local branch dance classes and at St Andrews RSCDS Summer School. Roddy also plays the Scottish Small Pipes. He now resides near St.Boswells, in the Scottish Borders, in sight of the Eildon Hills.


created: 2014-07-11 12:57:16.974698+00
last_modified: 2020-11-11 00:56:48.967253+00
name: Lynn, Seonaid
display_name: Seonaid Lynn
location: Edinburgh
notes:
  Information printed in the book “Winds of Change” (2018):

  Seonaid Lynn was born in Edinburgh, learning piano and violin from an early age. Growing up in a home full of song and dance, her love of music, particularly traditional music, stemmed from what she heard around her. Moving to the Scottish Borders for work, Seonaid continued her interest in traditional music, focussing on singing. She performed regularly at Folk Clubs and events throughout Scotland and her love of singing continues. In 2010 she founded, and continues to run, an adult choir in Edinburgh. Choral conducting is a major interest and a skill she continues to develop.

  Seonaid’s interest in playing for dancing grew after she moved back to Edinburgh and she attended her first RSCDS Summer School at St Andrews in 2007. She now plays fiddle for her local dance group and at the RSCDS St Andrews Summer School.


created: 2020-11-10 07:33:47.672037+00
last_modified: 2020-11-11 00:56:48.985135+00
name: Lynn, Seonaid & Johnston, Roddy
shortname: Lynn & Johnston
display_name: Seonaid Lynn & Roddy Johnston
email: roderick.johnston@icloud.com
notes:
  Seonaid Lynn and Roddy Johnston play regularly together for RSCDS dances and Ceilidhs. They have been fortunate enough to play for Clubs and dances across the UK, France and Canada. Both also enjoy dancing when the opportunity arises. (information printed in their book “Winds of Change”, 2018)

  Furthermore, Seonaid and Roddy have published two booklets of tunes together, namely “Winds of Change” in 2018 and "The Border Connection" in September 2020.

  For more information on the two, please see their SCDDB entries.


last_modified: 2020-11-15 20:35:22.173775+00
name: Haynes, Derek
display_name: Derek Haynes
location: Carnforth, Lancashire, UK
notes:
  ##>>
  The citation by Liverpool Branch supporting the award of the Society’s Scroll of Honour to Derek in 2003 can be summarised:

  {{quote}}
  Derek Haynes began Scottish country dancing in 1953 and in 1954 joined Liverpool Branch where he became a Branch teacher, committee member and treasurer. As well as taking a regular class, Derek taught both country and Highland dancing at many day and weekend schools throughout the UK and at the Society’s Summer and Winter Schools.

  {{quote}}
  Derek was also a deviser of Scottish country dances and, in addition to three published by the RSCDS, he produced several collections of dances sold in aid of cancer charities.

  {{quote}}
  Derek died in April 2005 and was the subject of a two pages of reminiscence and appreciation in the first issue of the Society magazine, *The Scottish Country Dancer*, in Autumn 2005.
  ##<<


last_modified: 2020-11-21 21:13:49.428564+00
name: Elmes, Peter
display_name: Peter Elmes
location: Wellington, New Zealand
notes:
  Some tributes from New Zealand SCD clubs on his retirement in 2018 from 50 years of playing his button accordion can be found at:

  - <<http://www.johnsonvillescd.org.nz/2018/12/20/peter-elmes-photo-history/>>
  - <<http://www.johnsonvillescd.org.nz/2018/12/20/farewell-peter-elmes/>>
  - <<http://www.johnsonvillescd.org.nz/2018/12/20/tribute-peter-elmes/>>


last_modified: 2020-12-05 18:21:03.283277+00
name: Attwood, Jean
display_name: Jean Attwood
location: Formerly Loughborough, UK
notes:
  Anybody who wishes to purchase any of her dance books should contact Johnnie and Margaret Gibb on 01509 890514.

  There is some biographical information in the <<https://dances.e-cribs.org/Alexander_Leaflets_Foreword.pdf|forward to the Alexander leaflets>>.


last_modified: 2021-01-02 10:46:20.5609+00
name: Grayson, Moggie
display_name: Moggie Grayson
notes:
  Moggie Grayson was formerly listed <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2214/|incorrectly>> as "Maggie".


last_modified: 2021-01-05 19:26:35.097273+00
name: Knight, A
shortname: A Knight
display_name: A Knight
notes:
  Presumed to be Andrew Knight who is given as the composer of The Braid Burn in the instructions for <<ddd:February Gold#16106>>.


last_modified: 2023-07-23 23:57:00.56982+00
name: RSCDS Cape Town Branch
display_name: RSCDS Cape Town Branch
location: Cape Town, South Africa
notes:
  A list of dances written by and for members of Cape Town and other South African branches can be found at <<http://www.scd.za.net/home/dance-instructions>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-16 09:55:02.666126+00
name: Priddey, Barry
display_name: Barry Priddey
location: RSCDS Sutton Coldfield
notes:
  An article about Barry Priddey, by <<ddp:Richardson, Frances#3696>>, appeared in <<link:thereel/313||12>>.


last_modified: 2021-01-16 14:44:18.754133+00
name: Sparling, Gordon
display_name: Gordon Sparling
notes:
  When contacted in early 2021, Gordon confirmed being the deviser of his two dances, but he does not have any original instructions himself; it was so long ago that he can’t even remember how they went. The dances were never tried out at his local dance group.


last_modified: 2021-01-27 16:39:20.900638+00
name: Miskoe, Sylvia
display_name: Sylvia Miskoe
location: Concord, NH, USA
email: SMiskoe@aol.com
notes:
  Music play an important part in Silvia's life from early on. With about 10 years of age she learned the piano. In college time she started playing the accordion and was playing for square and contra dancing.

  She joined the NH Scottish Dancers in 1954. At that time it was common to dance to recordings from Scotland. Even in the early 1970 when there was a growing number of good musicians around, Scottish dancers still resisted hiring locals, preferring their recordings from Scotland. There was the opinion prevailing that to play SCD music you needed to be a born Scot.
  Finally, Silvia and others were able to convince the Branch to hire Angus Mackinnon, a well known Scottish band leader, to give a workshop about how to play for Scottish Country Dancing.

  After that, four musicians, Silvia (accordion), Cal Howard (bass), Allan Chertok (drums), and Ralph Jones (flute), founded the first SCD band on East Coast, which was later named The White Cockade.

  Please also read Silvia's <<https://www.mainefiddlecamp.org/interview-with-sylivia-miskoe/|interview at the Maine Fiddle Camp>> for lots of interesting information.


last_modified: 2021-01-27 17:05:32.028796+00
name: White Cockade Scottish Country Dance Band, The
shortname: White Cockade
display_name: The White Cockade Scottish Country Dance Band
location: Concord, NH, USA
notes:
  Cal Howard, Allan Chertok, Ralph Jones and Sylvia Miskoe formed a band, eventually named The White Cockade. According an interview by Sylvia, they were the first, and for a while, the only Scottish Country Dance Band on the East Coast.

  Main members of the band were Sylvia Miskoe (accordion), Ralph Thompson and Vince O'Donnell (fiddles), Ralph Jones (flute), Cal Howard (Bass), RP Hale (piano and hammer dulcimer) and Allan Chertok (drums).


last_modified: 2021-01-27 16:46:53.308809+00
name: Burrage, Priscilla
display_name: Priscilla Burrage
location: Essex, VT, USA
email: pburrage@zoo.uvm.edu
notes:
  Priscilla was born in Framingham, MA, on December 10, 1929 as Priscilla Margaretta Maurer. She was raised in Margaretville, NY. She graduated from MIT in 1951. She was first married to Milton Raymond and then in 1962 Peter Burrage. She was working for IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY, and Essex, VT, from which she retired in 1991. 

  In Scottish country dancing she became a teacher and taught in Burlington, Middlebury and elsewhere for about 40 years. Furthermore, she devised several dozen dances, many of them were published in her own books (together with <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/58/|Sylvia Miskoe>>) <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/publication/672/|Kitchen Capers>> (1992) and <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/publication/787/|Cross-Country Capers>> (1996) and other collections of dances.

  Priscilla M. Burrage of Essex passed away on June 22, 2009, after fighting cancer for several years.

  For more information, see the following <<https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/burlingtonfreepress/obituary.aspx?n=priscilla-m-burrage&pid=128810629|obituary>>.


created: 2021-01-27 15:14:52.052774+00
last_modified: 2021-01-27 15:14:52.052774+00
name: Hale, RP
display_name: RP Hale
notes:
  RP Hale was also playing piano and hammer dulcimer in the White Cockade Scottish Country Dance Band.


last_modified: 2021-02-07 09:56:42.775007+00
name: Shearer, A N
display_name: A N Shearer
location: Kilsyth, Stirlingshire
notes:
  Kilsyth was originally in Stirlingshire, but since the 1975 boundary changes is now in North Lanarkshire.

  According to the extra info for <<ddd:#6689>> Miss A N Shearer was also known as Nana.


last_modified: 2021-02-08 12:50:04.806987+00
name: Grant, Frances
display_name: Frances Grant
location: Kilmorack, Scotland
notes:
  Frances Grant was dance teacher for the Kilmorack class for almost 3 decades and founding member of Glen Orrin Dancers.


last_modified: 2021-02-14 11:48:24.614275+00
name: Skillern, Thomas
display_name: Thomas Skillern
location: London, UK
notes:
  *Information from <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2226/|issue 2226>>:*

  This would be Thomas Skillern, died 1800, music publisher based in London. Not to be confused with his nephew Thomas Skillern (1776-1849), also a London based music publisher under the partnership Skillern & Challoner. Anything published 1800 or earlier is the uncle, anything after 1805 is the nephew.


last_modified: 2021-08-09 08:56:32.838758+00
name: Shaw, Pat
display_name: Pat Shaw
notes:
  Full name: Patrick Noel Shuldham-Shaw. Mainly known for English country dances: see <<http://www.patshaw.info/>>.


last_modified: 2021-11-08 11:22:11.689622+00
name: Skipper, Ann
display_name: Ann Skipper
notes:
  Information about Ann Skipper's death was reported in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2434/|issue 2434>> and <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2645/|issue 2645>>.


last_modified: 2021-02-25 17:38:29.701489+00
name: Mitchell, John W
display_name: John W Mitchell
notes:
  Obituary published in Scottish Country Dancer, No 16, April 2013:

  John Mitchell John Mitchell was introduced to SCD in 1947 and joined the Leeds Branch of the RSCDS in 1963. He was an active member of London Branch from 1966 to the time of his death. He also helped to found the Sussex Association of Scottish Societies, and as its first Chairman he organised an annual Charity Ball, the first day schools in Sussex, and the Sussex Open Air Scottish Dancing Festival, as well as the first teachers’ training courses in the area. A fellow dancer, Pat Hunter, said at John’s memorial, ‘He was nearly always on the floor for each dance – if you could get into his set, or were asked to be his partner, you knew you had arrived as a dancer!’
  John gained his SCD teaching certificate in 1972 and taught for the Hangleton SCD Club (which eventually became the Brighton and Hove Branch of the RSCDS) and later the Aldrington Club. Acording to Pat Hunter, his teaching was meticulous in its attention to detail.
  The same attention to detail showed in John’s extensive research into the history of SCD. He corresponded with Hugh Foss and Hugh Thurston, wrote many erudite articles for the London Reel, and frequently contributed letters to Scottish Country Dancer (see his last letter in this issue). John was also a prolific writer of new dances and probably devised more new Scottish country dances than anyone else: a total of 827. These were compiled in the Whetherly series, 24 collections published between 1974 and 1990. They included Caddam Wood, The Dundee City Police Jig, Iona Cross, The Cooper’s Wife, and Lord High Admiral.
  John was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a Life Governor of the Royal Scottish Corporation, a founder of Scots International, a member of the Scottish Tartan Society, and a Guild Brother of the Incorporation of Wrights of the City of Glasgow. So he was intensely interested in all things Scottish, and worked hard to further interest and participation in SCD. Our sympathy goes to John’s wife Dheirdre and their daughter Alison. 


last_modified: 2021-04-05 23:56:58.37298+00
name: Powrie, Ian
display_name: Ian Powrie
notes:
  A brief biography and discography may be found at <<http://www.nigelgatherer.com/perf/fiddlers/ian_powrie.html>>.

  The <<https://www.youtube.com/user/IanPowrieMusic/videos|Ian Powrie Music youtube channel>> has a few short videos of Ian Powrie playing including an <<https://youtu.be/rNgysjtF2CQ|excerpt>> from a longer film "Legend of the Fiddle: The Ian Powrie Story".


last_modified: 2023-12-07 12:05:24.68026+00
name: Petyt, Sue
display_name: Sue Petyt
location: Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK
email: suepetyt@icloud.com
notes:
  Formerly in Lochmaben, now Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

  Sue Petyt's former website (http://www.suepetyt.me.uk/) is now defunct.  The many dance descriptions previously available there are now hosted at <<https://suepetyt.e-cribs.org/>>.


created: 2014-09-29 13:39:01.090324+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:45:06.371514+00
name: Prior, Ann
display_name: Ann Prior
location: Bridport, England
notes:
  A tribute to Ann, Bridport Club Founder, by Caroline Morgan-Smith appeared in <<link:thereel/313||17>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:47:11.927962+00
name: Robertson, Colin
display_name: Colin Robertson
email: scotdance@comcast.net
notes:
  Other activities: Historical Scottish dance research.

  An article in <<link:thereel/310||9>> that Colin wrote about The Sailor's Hornpipe also contains a little biographical information about him.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:48:18.410152+00
name: Rousseau, Philippe
display_name: Philippe Rousseau
notes:
  An article by Philippe on his background and opinions about dancing appeared in <<link:thereel/304||11>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:50:38.578961+00
name: Thomson, Frank
display_name: Frank Thomson
notes:
  An article by Frank on his background and opinions about dancing appeared in <<link:thereel/307||13>>.


created: 2015-08-29 11:02:28.872125+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:53:02.996636+00
name: Williamson, William
display_name: William Williamson
notes:
  An article by William on his background and opinions about dancing appeared in <<link:thereel/303||13>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 23:01:32.049121+00
name: Finley, Eric
display_name: Eric Finley
location: Ayrshire
email: ericfinley579@btinternet.com
notes:
  An article by Eric on his background and opinions about dancing appeared in <<link:thereel/306||12>>.


created: 2012-09-16 15:26:34.52003+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 23:04:22.043906+00
name: Lindsay, Jim
shortname: Jim Lindsay
display_name: Jim Lindsay
notes:
  Not to be confused with Jimmy Lindsay, who is a different person.

  An article by Jim on his background and opinions about dancing appeared in <<link:thereel/310||7>>.


last_modified: 2023-11-10 10:10:14.068185+00
name: Martlew, Ken
shortname: Ken Martlew
display_name: Ken Martlew
location: Hemel Hempstead, England
email: kenmartlew@aol.com
notes:
  An article by Ken on his background and opinions about dancing appeared in <<link:thereel/311||14>>.


  You can listen to his citation for the RSCDS scroll of honour and acceptance speech at <<https://youtu.be/oa6qUYRwRSY?t=5300>>.


last_modified: 2021-03-17 22:27:18.708326+00
name: Steed, Dee
display_name: Dee Steed
location: Bristol, UK
notes:
  *From the Friendship Dances book (1998):*
  Dee Steed is treasurer for a Charity in Bristol. Originally from Amersham where she started dancing as a child. She has danced and taught in Bristol for many years. Her speciality is teaching children but she enjoys her connection with adult demonstration teams.


last_modified: 2021-10-16 22:42:25.403031+00
name: MacLeod, P/M Donald
display_name: P/M Donald MacLeod
notes:
  For a longer list of his tunes than are currently entered in the database see <<https://www.kinnairdbagpipes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/DonaldMacLeodBooks.pdf>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:51:19.403461+00
name: Walker, Chris
display_name: Chris Walker
notes:
  Accordionist and Leader of Silver Cross Band.  
  A profile of the _Silver Cross Band_ can be found <<link:thereel/300||9>>.


created: 2012-06-12 13:50:38.510506+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:55:52.818372+00
name: Ainsworth, Maureen
display_name: Maureen Ainsworth
notes:
  A tribute to Maureen Joyce (née Ainsworth) appeared in <<link:thereel/288||13>>.

  Her dances were published under the name Ainsworth. Later in life she married again to Frank Joyce.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:56:24.368436+00
name: Anderson, David (19C)
display_name: David Anderson (19C)
notes:
  Years of birth and death are not known exactly.

  A series of articles about David Anderson by J.F and T.M.Flett were published in <<ddpub:#480>> starting from <<link:thethistle/29|issue 29|4>>.


created: 2019-02-20 21:03:37.386312+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 23:02:10.70184+00
name: Flett, Joan and Tom
display_name: Joan & Tom Flett
notes:
  For a description of Tom and Joan Flett's dance collecting activities see <<https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/alumni/our_alumni/obituary-archive/tom-joan-flett-tribute|this obituary>>. There is also an <<https://insteprt.co.uk/flett-mss/|online collection of their manuscripts>>.

  A long article by the Fletts was published in four parts in several issues of <<ddpub:Thistle, The#480>>:
  - <<link:thethistle/29||4>>
  - <<link:thethistle/30||6>>
  - <<link:thethistle/31||4>>
  - <<link:thethistle/32||5>>


last_modified: 2023-09-03 23:03:04.209438+00
name: Forbes, Stuart
display_name: Stuart Forbes
notes:
  Stuart is a fiddler and part of the Craigievar Band. Information on the band see <<link:thereel/286||8>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 23:03:57.002414+00
name: Goldring, Roy
display_name: Roy Goldring
location: Ilkley, Yorkshire
notes:
  ##>>
  Roy died in 2007. The following obituary originally appeared in The Society magazine, *The Scottish country dancer* in April 2008  

  Roy was born in south west England where he spent his childhood. When old enough he was drafted into the armed forces. It was during this time that he was flown to Egypt and vowed he would never fly again. He stuck to this vow only relenting to fly to Canada and Norway recently to teach dancing in those countries. His return to civilian life saw him in the Civil Service and moving about the country. In Birmingham he met and married Doreen. When in Surrey they took up Scottish country dancing after trying the English version first. More moves to Newcastle and Harrogate and two sons later, he finally came to Ilkley and joined the Leeds Branch.  

  The Ilkley Club started life in the Goldring lounge and when the evening institute class was in danger of being closed for lack of a qualified teacher, Roy and Doreen went to Summer School *[in 1977]* to obtain their certificates. Subsequently he became a committee member and Chairman of Leeds Branch. Along with his interest in Scottish country dancing, he played golf, listened to music from classical to jazz and amassed great knowledge in works of art.  

  In the thirty years Roy lived in Ilkley, he emerged as one of our greatest creators of dances and it is in this respect that we will all, and future generations too, remember him. His knowledge of music allowed him to marry his dances to some wonderful tunes. His dances are great to dance – not too complicated but always with some new formation and extremely danceable. There are not many programmes that do not contain at least one of his dances.  
  ##<<
  Thank you Roy for the wonderful legacy you have left us in Scottish country dancing.  

  Brenda Burnell


  The London Branch magazine *The Reel* has an article by Roy Goldring on devising dances in <<link:thereel/203||5>>.
  Some personal reflections on Roy Goldring by his nephew Richard appear in <<link:thereel/300||14>>.


created: 2014-05-09 22:22:42.513617+00
last_modified: 2023-12-14 10:00:11.083435+00
name: MacCuish Bark, Deirdre
display_name: Deirdre MacCuish Bark
location: Mississauga, Canada
notes:
  Deirdre MacCuish Bark teaches classes and social groups in the Toronto area. She was also awarded the RSCDS scroll of honour in 2018.


last_modified: 2021-04-07 20:47:06.308321+00
name: Richards, Laura & Gilchrist, Hannah
display_name: Richards & Gilchrist
location: Leeds, UK
notes:
  Laura Richards and Hannah Gilchrist, aged 9 and 8 respectively, were members of the Leeds Branch children's class in 1993.


created: 2021-09-27 17:00:16.389462+00
last_modified: 2021-09-27 23:56:57.773396+00
name: Ramsay, Wayne
display_name: Wayne Ramsay
location: Kalamazoo, USA
notes:
  Name taken from the rather muffled audio on this video <<https://youtu.be/hv_YZtDSEc4>> so may be misspelled.


last_modified: 2021-09-05 11:07:50.753248+00
name: Shand, Annie
display_name: Annie Shand
location: Aberdeen, Scotland
notes:
  More information about Annie Shand can be found at <<https://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/revival-fiddle/2015/03/08/annie-shand-1872-1936-negroid-corybantism-old-national-dances-scotland/|Edinburgh University>>. Furthermore, a page at <<https://raretunes.org/annie-shand/|RateTunes>> has information and three recordings of hers from 1929/1930 online.


last_modified: 2021-09-11 16:40:08.710159+00
name: McNeill, Archibald
display_name: Archibald McNeill
notes:
  Also referred to as ‘Blind Archie’ MacNeill in <<https://bagpipe.news/2020/07/13/memories-of-london-greats/>> which mentions his tune for David Ross. Web references to him variously use McNeill or MacNeill.


created: 2021-10-16 23:15:57.67059+00
last_modified: 2021-10-16 23:56:43.562657+00
name: MacDonald, Allan
display_name: Allan MacDonald
notes:
  Published two books of tunes under the titles Moidard Collection Volumes 1 & 2.

  It is not clear if this is the same person as <<ddp:Moidart, A#2657>>.


last_modified: 2021-10-17 09:43:22.832294+00
name: More, R
display_name: R More
notes:
  Possibly the Bobby More referred to as the composer of the tune <<ddt:Robert Mitchell More#14524>> in the CD insert of the album <<dda:Joy of Sets#1082>>?


created: 2012-06-12 13:34:09.009057+00
last_modified: 2021-12-16 22:15:50.018603+00
name: Rose, Jane
display_name: Jane Rose
location: Berkhamsted, UK
notes:
  RSCDS Qualified Teacher.  
  Taught beginners, intermediate and advanced classes at Berkhamsted Strathspey & Reel Club from September 2004 to 2019. Taking a sabbatical year 2019-20.  
  London Branch Beginners, September 2013 to June 2018.

  Also taught at:  
  Argyll Day School and Tunbridge Wells Day School (29/3/14)  
  Birmingham RSCDS Day School 4th March 2017  
  Cheltenham RSCDS Day School 22nd April 2017  
  Intermediates & Advanced at Summer School week 3 2017  
  RSCDS York Branch Day School 6th October 2018  
  RSCDS Somerset Branch Day School 2nd March 2019  
  Beginners & Low Impact Very Advanced at Summer School week 3 2019  
  Barcelona Dancers weekend 6th June 2020 - postponed until 2022  
  Summer School week 2 2020  
  Aberdeen Dancers away weekend in Perth 4-6th September 2020 - postponed until 2022  
  Norwich RSCDS Day School 21st November 2020

  RSCDS Courses Attended:  
  Tutors Course at Summer School week 1 2018  
  DPA Assessors Course weekend in May 2019

  Courses organised and run:  
  Tutor for 2-day Teaching Skills Courses in Autumn 2018 and planned for Jan/Feb 2022  
  RSCDS Teachers course for Units 2-5 November 2019 – August 21 (100% candidates passed)

  Other:  
  Chairperson of SERTA (South East Region Teachers’ Association) 2017-2021  
  Chairperson of RSCDS Herts and Border Branch 2020-2024  
  Member of London RSCDS branch  
  Member of RSCDS International branch  
  Regular attendee at UK Summer and Winter Schools  
  Member of team presenting Winter School afternoon "walk through of dances" 2016-2018 & 2020  
  Attendee of New Zealand Summer School 2019/20  
  Written and presented paper to SERTA, RSCDS Summer School and RSCDS AGM weekend forums - topic “Teaching, and Keeping, Beginners”  
  Seconded to RSCDS Business Plan working party 2016-19  
  Mentor to a number of candidates taking all levels of RSCDS teachers’ examinations  
  Co Ordinator of Berkhamsted Strathspey & Reel Club Day Schools from 2010-2018 & 2020  
  Co Ordinator of RSCDS Book 5 video project by Berkhamsted Strathspey & Reel Club  


created: 2018-03-31 11:14:07.916767+00
last_modified: 2022-01-27 18:47:49.760774+00
name: Purcell, E
display_name: E Purcell
notes:
  There are tunes named after "Elizabeth Purcell" so possibly that is the first name of this composer?


last_modified: 2023-10-17 17:52:03.116029+00
name: Longman & Broderip (18C)
display_name: Longman & Broderip (18C)
location: London, UK
notes:
  According to <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2644/|issue 2644>> Longman & Broderip were active in London in the second half of 18th century as publishers and musical instrument sellers. They were based in Cheapside and Haymarket until going bankrupt in 1798.

  Further details from <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3300/|issue 3300>>:
  Their full names were James Longman and Francis Broderip.  
  This English music publishing house, music retail shop and instrument seller was founded in London in 1767 by James Longman.
  In 1769, Lukey joined the firm and in 1775, Francis Broderip became shareholder of the company.
  In 1798 the company became insolvent and the former owners went on separately.


last_modified: 2022-05-23 08:05:23.321941+00
name: Fox, Viveka
display_name: Viveka Fox
notes:
  The instructions for <<ddd:Alison's Round Reel#7338>> spell the name as "Vivika Fox". To be checked...


last_modified: 2022-02-15 14:43:27.969795+00
name: Russell, Gill
display_name: Gill Russell
location: Ashtead, UK
notes:
  Information from an eulogy provided by Maggie Westley:

  Gillian was born in London on 24th June 1937. Post war, the family settled in Putney where Gill attended Putney High School from 1948 to 1955. 
  Sadly her father died in 1949. Her mother later remarried, and her stepfather became a much-loved character. He encouraged her love of music, choral singing and the piano, which stayed with her throughout her life.

  At some point, Gill  discovered the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, which proved to be a very important part of her leisure activities. She took an active role in forming a group called the Cairngorm Dancers, organizing weekend schools and Hogmanay breaks.

  In 1987, Gill and <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/12107/|Rita Marlow>>, who had met through Scottish Country Dance, decided to sell their London flats, and buy a home to share “until retirement”. The arrangement worked extremely well, and Ashtead proved to be the ideal home. 

  The move to Ashtead encouraged involvement with a local group – The Wallington Scottish Association, and so the dancing continued. Dancers from the area provided enjoyable entertainment for Gill, other Residents and Staff at The Red House for their Burns’ Night celebrations. 

  She was rather strict with display teams. Male Scottish dancers were told to wear dark underpants beneath kilts if taking part in displays, especially when dancing on a stage. Travelling to France with one group, it was reported that she did check their attire!

  Gill’s stroke, which resulted in her needing constant care and assistance proved difficult for her. However, caring and loving the delightful Staff at The Red House proved to be. The COVID-19 outbreak was not helpful either – she did miss her visitors.

  According to Maggie Westley, Gill was a qualified RSCDS teacher but didn’t really like teaching too much.

  Gill Russell also wrote a couple of dances like "<<ddd:Polesden Lacey>>", "<<ddd:Cobham Hornpipe>>", "<<ddd:Millennium>>" and "<<ddd:The Almo Rant>>" (the latter together with <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/12107/|Rita Marlow>>).


last_modified: 2022-02-18 10:16:16.182405+00
name: Jamieson, R
shortname: R Jamieson
display_name: R Jamieson
notes:
  Probably the same as <<ddp:Ronald G Jamieson#1645>> especially as each is attributed a Debbie Ann(e) tune with slightly different spellings. To be investigated...


last_modified: 2022-02-18 10:17:13.889628+00
name: Jamieson, Ronald G
display_name: Ronald G Jamieson
location: Shetland
notes:
  Son of Frank Roland Jameson.  Usually called "Ronnie".

  Probably the same as <<ddp:R Jamieson#10077>> especially as each is attributed a Debbie Ann(e) tune with slightly different spellings. To be investigated...


last_modified: 2022-03-04 12:19:16.381654+00
name: McDonald, M Donalda
display_name: M Donalda McDonald
location: Toronto, Canada
notes:
  There is an obituary in the February 2022 edition of the Toronto <<ddpub:Set and Link#1290>> magazine and some further reminiscences in the March 2022 edition.


created: 2015-07-21 08:02:18.485063+00
last_modified: 2022-03-09 12:04:09.892621+00
name: Freinbichler, Regina
display_name: Regina Freinbichler
location: Salzburg, Austria
notes:
  After long suffering from cancer she has died on 5th March 2022 far too early in the age of 46.

  Born in Salzburg on 6th August 1975, Regina was a sporty person from early ages onwards. She did gymnastics already as a child and did artistic gymnastics actively until the age of 16. Later she became a trainer of gymnastics.

  Later she studied history, English and mathematics to become a teacher. During her study she did a 10-month stay in Glasgow. She was deeply impressed by Scotland, Scottish culture and especially Scottish dancing. 
   
  In 2008 Regina was the founder of "The Flying Scotsman Scottish Dancers Salzburg" inside her gymnastics sports club Turnverein Maxglan. 
  She also organized Dance Workshops in Salzburg with excellent teachers like Ron Wallace in 2011.
  Due to her health conditions she had to hand over the group to Katrin Edelmann in February 2020. Katrin leads on the group as "<<https://www.facebook.com/cuillinscottishdancers/|Cuillin Scottish Dancers>>" in Salzburg now independant of the sports club.

  Regina has devised a number of dances. One of them is "<<ddd:Between Yews and Willows>>", a dance she wrote on the context of her illness. The dance leaflet contains her "<<https://www.turnverein-maxglan.at/ovarian-cancer-appeal-for-scottish-country-dancers/|Ovarian Cancer Appeal for Scottish Country Dancers>>". 

  Nine of her dances she has released in a PDF collection called "Own Dances" which is currently available at <<https://www.turnverein-maxglan.at/reginas-dances/>> where also videos of five of the dances can be viewed. 

  Furthermore, in 2015 Regina wrote and published the book "<<https://www.turnverein-maxglan.at/scottish-country-dancing-book/|Scottish Country Dancing with Beginners>>" sharing her thoughts and experiences on teaching new dancers and mixed level groups. The book contains a lot of material including another seven dances of hers and is available at <<http://rscdsleeds.uk/index.php?id_product=813&controller=product&search_query=Scottish+Country+Dancing+with+beginners&results=577|Leeds Branch Shop>>.

  Besides Scottish dancing and gymnastics she was deeply involved in the production of the magazine "<<https://www.turnverein-maxglan.at/schottland-zeitschrift/|Wir bringen Schottland nach Salzburg>>" (= We bring Scotland to Salzburg) which was released several times a year and so far reached 13 issues.

  Even in the last days of her life in hospice she was devoted to her fascination about Scotland. She was working on a book called "Faszination Schottland" (in German) which is about to be published mid-March 2022. Sadly, she did not live long enough to see it happen herself.


last_modified: 2022-04-24 11:44:30.057456+00
name: Thompson, E
display_name: E Thompson
notes:
  Thought to be a misspelling duplicate of <<ddp:Thomson, Eileen#1565>> (see <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2762/|issue 2762>>. This entry should be deleted once this is confirmed.


last_modified: 2022-12-26 21:42:01.508818+00
name: Lawrie, Willie
display_name: Willie Lawrie
notes:
  This entry conflates two people: see <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2754/>>. To be sorted out...  
  This entry will finally be the one for the accordion player, grandson of Pipe Major William (Willie) Lawrie <<ddp:Lawrie, P/M William#12248>>


created: 2014-10-01 22:24:38.750879+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:59:03.304063+00
name: Clement, Atsuko
display_name: Atsuko Clement
notes:
  An article by Atsuko on her background and opinions about dancing appeared in <<link:thereel/313||8>>.


last_modified: 2022-06-25 08:41:45.1481+00
name: MacKay, Mamie
display_name: Mamie MacKay
notes:
  Originally added as the deviser of <<ddd:Quite Contrary>> and originally assumed the same as the "<<ddp:Mackay, Maymie#12155>>" attributed as deviser of <<ddd:Lads of Lawers>>. However these are two different people (email confirmation from Sue James).


created: 2022-07-13 07:17:38.507053+00
last_modified: 2022-07-14 07:47:19.487767+00
name: Hill, Derek
display_name: Derek Hill
location: Canada
notes:
  Derek Hill was the drummer with the Schiehallion SCD Band formed in 1975.

  He also, together with Ian Price, devised the dance "The Hollyburn Jig" in 1976 for which Ian has composed the tune.

  Unfortunately he has died a few years back (stated 2022).


created: 2022-07-13 07:12:10.509668+00
last_modified: 2022-07-13 23:56:13.343187+00
name: Collin, Celia
display_name: Celia Collin
notes:
  Celia Collin is a violinist and was playing with the Schiehallion SCD Band formed in 1975 and later with the Tartan Players.


created: 2023-01-04 15:14:24.471012+00
last_modified: 2023-01-04 15:16:37.018108+00
name: Donald, Robert & Donald, Mamie
display_name: Bob & Mamie Donald
notes:
  They ran www.dancearchives.co.uk and the content of that website lives on as "The Donald Collection".  
  More infos here: <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/publication/436/>>


created: 2013-02-22 16:01:18.758726+00
last_modified: 2022-12-21 11:24:06.868514+00
name: Fisher, Mark & Goodwin, Joe & Shay, Larry
shortname: Fisher/Goodwin/Shay
display_name: Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin & Larry Shay
notes:
  Mark Fisher (* 24 March 1895 in Philadelphia; † 2 Jan 1948 in Long Lake, Illinois)
  Joe Goodwin (6 Jun 1889;  † 31 Jul 1943)  
  Larry Shay (né Lawrence Fredrick Schaetzlein; 10 Aug 1897 Chicago; † 22 Feb 1988 Newport Beach, California)


last_modified: 2022-07-13 08:58:16.238221+00
name: Price, Ian / Hill, Derek
display_name: Price, Ian / Hill, Derek
notes:
  Ian Price and Derek Hill, both members of the Schiehallion SCD Band formed in 1975 have together devised the dance "The Hollyburn Jig" in 1976 for which Ian has composed the tune.

  Unfortunately Derek has died a few years back (stated in 2022).


created: 2019-02-26 11:45:24.786571+00
last_modified: 2022-07-27 13:38:55.056992+00
name: Laing, Alexander
display_name: Alexander Laing
notes:
  List of tunes found at <<https://petermacfiehistorian.net.au/publications/on-the-fiddle/manuscript-tunes/>>


last_modified: 2022-07-29 11:48:18.077264+00
name: Wallin, Joseph
display_name: Joseph Wallin
location: Dartmouth, Canada
notes:
  There was some further information at Dick Oakes' <<https://socalfolkdance.org/master_teachers.htm|Folk Dance Master Teacher Biographies>>:

  - <<https://socalfolkdance.org/master_teachers/wallin_j.htm|Joe Wallin's Biography>> by Dick Oakes
  - The Biographies had been hosted at phantomranch.net in the past before they moved to socalfolkdance.org. A copy can still be found through the <<https://web.archive.org/web/20160320185737/http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/teachers/wallin_j.htm|Internet Archive>>


last_modified: 2022-07-13 14:49:57.439377+00
name: Brandon, Mary Shoolbraid
display_name: Mary Shoolbraid Brandon
location: Honolulu & Los Angeles, USA
email: dbbrand@ibm.net
notes:
  Mary Shoolbraid was born April 6, 1925 into a dancing family in Leslie, Fife.

  She got her RSCDS Teacher's certificate in Scotland. Then in 1955 she moved to Vancouver, Canada. There she formed adult and children SCD classes. In 1961 also her brother <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/1764/| Murray Shoolbraid>> joined her in Vancouver.

  She also played a role in bringing Miss Milligan over for her first visit to Vancouver. Her visits then led to the founding of Vancouver Branch in 1964 with Mary as one of the first commitee members.
  She also was the 1st teacher of the Gleneagles Club in West Vancouver.

  In 1965 she met David Brandon from Los Angeles. End of 1966 they married and Mary moved to LA. Mary and David were leading figures in the Los Angeles Branch which David helped founding earlier in 1966. She also widely promoted SCD in Southern California as far south as San Diego.

  In the early 1970s they moved to Hawaii due to David's work, where they founded the Hawaii Branch in 1973.

  They also travelled to Japan. While Mary gave workshops and
  mentored teacher candidates, David helped in the formation of the
  Tokyo Branch 1984. 

  Later Mary and David hosted Miss Milligan when she visited the Pacific Islands on her last tour to the US and Canada. 

  Mary and David returned to Los Angeles after more than 20 years on Hawaii.

  Mary received the RSCDS Scroll of Honour In 1987 for her contributions and devotion to the Branches of Vancouver, Los Angeles, San Diego,
  Hawaii and Tokyo. 

  During her dancing life Mary has devised a large number of dances many of which have been published in her books "Dances With a Difference, Vol I", "Memories of Fife", "The Emigrant Scot" and the "Honolulu Book" of the Hawaii Branch. Furthermore Mary was appointed one of the first RSCDS examiners for North America.

  Mary died on March 9, 2016.

  There is a very informative article by Simon Scott about her dancing life in the May-Aug/2016 issue of the <<https://rscdsvancouver.org/resources/the-white-cockade/white-cockade-20152016/|White Cockade>> released by the Vancouver branch. Furthermore, the booklet <<https://archive.rscds.org/index.php/scottish-country-dancing-in-vancouver-history|A History of SCD in Vancouver>> provides many more information on Mary and her involvement in SCD and the Vancouver Branch over the years.


created: 2022-07-13 15:13:40.659926+00
last_modified: 2022-07-13 15:15:15.471628+00
name: Brandon, David
display_name: David Brandon
location: Los Angeles, USA
notes:
  David Brandon was involved in founding a number of RSCDS Branches, like those of Los Angeles, Hawaii and Tokyo.

  In 1966, the year he helped founding the LA branch, he married <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/50/|Mary Shoolbraid>> and she moved from Vancouver to Los Angeles. 

  Due to his work Mary and David moved to Hawaii in the early 1970s where they founded the Hawaii Branch in 1973. After his retirement in 1991 they moved back to LA. Here David was involved and teaching SCD classes in South Pasadena, West Los Angeles, and Simi Valley.

  David received the RSCDS Scroll of Honour in 1996.

  David died on May 1, 2002.


last_modified: 2022-12-25 21:56:43.474576+00
name: Claribel
display_name: Charlotte Alington Barnard (Claribel)
notes:
  Claribel was the pseudonym for Charlotte  Alington Barnard (23 December 1830 in Louth, Lincolnshire – 30 January 1869 in Dover)


last_modified: 2022-12-26 19:33:38.278818+00
name: MacLeod, Jim and his Band
shortname: Jim Macleod
display_name: Jim MacLeod and his Band
notes:
  Musician who played in the band (not necessarily all simultaneously and possibly incomplete) were:  

  Jim Macleod - Piano and vocal  
  Tommy Ford - accordion  
  Jim Cleland - accordion  
  Hebbie Gray - fiddle  
  Jimmy Macfarlane - fiddle, tin whistle  
  John Sinton - bass  
  Robin Brock - bass
  Alex Doig - drums  
  Alex McMullan - drums  
  Billy Thom - drums  
  P/M Jimmy Mortimer - pipes  
  Stan Saunders - bass  
  George Hill - guitar  
    
  John Drewry wrote dances dedicated to several members of the band like "Alex Doig's Jig", "Tommy Ford's Fancy" or "The Big Fiddle" (for John Stinton).


created: 2023-01-25 13:32:59.117586+00
last_modified: 2023-01-26 00:56:50.553405+00
name: Ryan, William Bradley
display_name: William Bradley Ryan
notes:
  In 1883 he collated Ryan’s ‘Mammoth Collection of 1050 Reels and Jigs, Hornpipes, Clogs, Walk-arounds, Essences, Strathspeys, Highland Flings and Contra Dances’


created: 2022-07-13 07:13:21.639689+00
last_modified: 2022-07-13 23:56:09.2633+00
name: Browne, Davene
display_name: Davene Browne
location: Vancouver, Canada
notes:
  Davene was born as Davene Kelly in 10 January 1924 in Saskatchewan, Canada. She first learned to play the tuba and later the string bass. She was playing with a number of bands and orchestras including the New Westminster
  Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra.
  At the Vancouver Philharmonic she got to know Celia Collin encouraging her to also play Scottish music and they both joined the Schiehallion SCD Band formed by Ian Price and Ian Brady in 1975, playing together with Ian Brady, Derek Hill and Murray Shoolbraid. They played together for about 12 year mainly in western Canada and also Washington state.

  After 1990 she also joined the the Vancouver Fiddle Orchestra (VFO, formed by Ian Price and Tom Scott) and played with other SCD bands like Scuttlebutt, (Ewan
  'Sudsy' Clark, fiddle; Kristi Lind, piano; Janet Wright, guitar) and the "Tartan Players" (Julie Smith, piano; again with Celia Collin, fiddle; Carole Berger, flute; later Deborah Jones and Lucasz Wieczorek, both fiddle, replacing Celia).

  She was regarded a great mentor to new musicians, pointing out the things they got write rather than mistakes.

  In the end she played SCD music for about 40 years.

  At some time she gave her double Bass to Janet Wright who is now the leader of the Vancouver Fiddle Orchestra.

  Davene Browne died in 2020.

  There are two very nice and informative obituaries by Janet Wright and Ian Price in the Nov-Dec/2020 issue of the <<https://rscdsvancouver.org/resources/the-white-cockade/white-cockade-20202021/|White Cockade>> released by the Vancouver branch and additional information in the <<https://www.vancouverceilidh.org/?page_id=12648|Vancouver 2020/21 Ceilidh Newsletter #2>>. 


last_modified: 2022-07-13 23:56:55.547579+00
name: Shoolbraid, Murray
display_name: Murray Shoolbraid
location: Salt Spring Island, Canada
email: gmhshoolbraid@gmail.com
notes:
  Murray Shoolbraid was a piano player.

  He was born November 10, 1931 in Kinglassie, Fife. 

  Already in Scotland he provided the musical accompaniment on the piano for the many classes his mother was teaching.

  In 1961 he moved to Vancouver, Canada, joining his sister  <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/50/|Mary Shoolbraid Brandon>>. He got actively involved with the SCD groups in the region that Mary had started.

  Besides composing many tunes and having written a dance, Murray Shoolbraid played piano with the a number of bands, namely the "Schiehallion SCD Band" formed in 1975, “The Teuchters”; the “Vancouver Ceilidh Band” and Victoria-based “Barley Bree”. 
  He is said, that he could transpose music to any key. This was very advantageous because many of the pianos he encountered were frequently off pitch.

  In 1980 his family moved to Salt Spring Island.

  He died on February 26, 2020 after a short illness.

  There is an informative obituary on <<https://saltspringexchange.com/2020/03/11/obituary-murray-shoolbraid/|Salt Spring Exchange>>.


last_modified: 2022-08-19 16:19:39.938866+00
name: Milligan, Alex
display_name: Alex Milligan
notes:
  Jacquy Milligan, Alex's wife, writes in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2858/|issue 2858>> that:

  Alex obtained his Dance teacher's certificate from RSCDS and taught both children and adults for circa 60 years.
  He entered teams in festivals - and ran the dancing part of the Edinburgh Competitive Festival for several years.
  He demonstrated Scottish Country Dancing at many venues in Edinburgh and also at various festivals abroad.
  Latterly his Club focused on older dancers and was a great social venue.

  And by email:  "Alex was a passionate Scottish Country Dance 'fanatic' right from age 15 till the day he died. We played Captain Bain’s Tribute (composed by him) and Dancing the Baby at his funeral (and had feet tapping as he had requested)."

  (_Note:_ According to the <<ddd:Captain Bain's Tribute>> dance leaflet in SDA, the eponymous tune was written by John MacGregor.)


last_modified: 2022-10-20 22:24:22.223242+00
name: Webb, Stephen
display_name: Stephen Webb
location: Hemel Hempstead, UK
email: stphnwbb@gmail.com
notes:
  Fully Certificated (St Andrews) August 1977 examined by Jean Milligan.  
  RSCDS London Branch Award June 2021.  
  BSRC The Bateson Medal April 2022.  


last_modified: 2022-12-03 20:24:45.932187+00
name: Smith, T Morton
display_name: T Morton Smith
notes:
  Thne instructions for the dance <<ddd:Make Up The Quarrel#4110>> say that its music of the same name was composed by R Morton Smith (the deviser). So this separate entry for T Morton Smith may be a mistake?


created: 2023-01-04 15:11:32.396369+00
last_modified: 2023-01-04 15:16:46.279386+00
name: Donald, Mamie
display_name: Mamie Donald
notes:
  Wife of <<ddp:Donald, Robert#105>>. She ran businesses with him and contributed to the so called "Donald Collection", coming from their former website www.dancearchives.co.uk.  
  More information in the extra note section here:  
  <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/publication/436/>>


created: 2014-09-12 20:10:10.089369+00
last_modified: 2023-01-08 15:08:52.88069+00
name: Watt, George T
display_name: George T Watt
location: Dundee, Scotland
email: georgetwatt@hotmail.com
notes:
  George Watt has devised quite a number of dances most of which are published in his book  "The Round 'O' Book of Scottish Country Dances".

  George started dancing already at the age of 4.


created: 2022-12-08 23:48:28.90737+00
last_modified: 2022-12-09 00:56:35.229293+00
name: Lawrie, Ian
display_name: Ian Lawrie
notes:
  Some information on Ian Lawrie can be found here.
  https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/willie-lawrie.html


created: 2015-02-13 14:36:03.072561+00
last_modified: 2022-12-11 12:43:04.106968+00
name: McLaughlin, Marshall & Anne
shortname: M & A McLaughlin
display_name: Marshall & Anne McLaughlin
location: Hot Springs, NC USA
notes:
  Published their dance "Thank You Jack" in "The Petronella Paper" (May-August 2010) of the Atlanta Branch


created: 2013-02-22 15:59:00.803795+00
last_modified: 2022-12-19 22:24:36.925376+00
name: Muir, Lewis F. & Gilbert, L. Wolfe
shortname: Muir/Wolfe
display_name: Lewis F. Muir & L. Wolfe Gilbert
notes:
  Louis Wolfe Gilbert (August 31, 1886 – July 12, 1970)  
  Lewis F. Muir, born Louis Meuer (May 30, 1883 – December 3, 1915)


last_modified: 2022-12-19 22:35:30.949733+00
name: Woods, Harry & Dixon, Mort
shortname: Woods/Dixon
display_name: Harry Woods & Mort Dixon
notes:
  Mort Dixon (* 20 March 1892 in New York City; † 23 March 1956 in Bronxville, New York)  
  Harry MacGregor Woods (* 4 Nov 1896 in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts as Henry MacGregor Woods; † 14 Jan 1970 in Glendale, Arizona) 


last_modified: 2023-02-20 00:56:24.774836+00
name: Hamilton, James Stanley 'Stan'
shortname: Stan Hamilton
display_name: James Stanley 'Stan' Hamilton
notes:
  James Stanley 'Stan' Hamilton was born 1928 in Ayrshire as the son of James Stanley 'Jimmy' Hamilton and Mary Hamilton of Auchincruive.

  Stan Hamilton played Piano and played together with his childhood friend Bobby Frew (Accordion), his father Jimmy Hamilton (Fiddle), John McCroskie (Drums) and others.

  In 1957 Stan emigrated to Canada along with his wife Anne and Bobby Frew.

  In Canada he played with Bobby Frew and Bobby Brown (also originally from Scotland, joining 1961 to 1974, when left to form his own band). 
  Stan formed the band Stan Hamilton & The Clansmen, later named <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/person/2053/|Stan Hamilton & The Flying Scotsmen>>.

  He received the RSCDS Scroll of Honour in 2005.

  Stan Hamilton passed away 4 September, 2007.

  (Sources: <<https://thesession.org/tunes/12052|The Session>>, <<http://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/stan-hamilton.html|Box and Fiddle archive>>, and obituary in <<http://www.dancescottish.ca/archives-set%26link.html|Toronto Set+Link>> Oct 2007)


last_modified: 2023-03-02 00:56:54.095526+00
name: Muir, Ian
shortname: Ian Muir
display_name: Ian Muir
notes:
  The SCD world is lucky to have two musicians called Ian Muir both of whom also compose tunes:  
  <<ddp:Muir, Ian R#1590>> (Craigellachie)  
  <<ddp:Muir, Ian T#1575>> (Prestwick)  

  This entry should ideally not be used for either of them. If database editors come across any tunes with composer only given as "Ian Muir" they should try and find out which one it actually was and only enter it here if they are not able to do so.


last_modified: 2023-03-11 18:20:31.461157+00
name: Thomson, Gordon
display_name: Gordon Thomson
location: Inverness, Scotland
notes:
  Gordon writing to Peter Dixon in 2017:  
  Before retiring to Skye in 2009 I had danced in Suffolk and surrounding areas for about 20 years. <<ddd:Gillian's Strathspey#11299>> was devised for Gillian Barella who taught a class in Nacton, Suffolk.  
  <<ddd:Ask Miriam#14497>> and <<ddd:Return to Shieldaig#14496>> were devised in memory of Miriam Lochner, who you probably knew as she danced a lot in Cambridge. (Return to Shieldaig reflects her elegance in dance; Ask Miriam reflects her fun in dance).  
  <<ddd:An T-Uibhisteach Tapaidh#17881>> was written for the 60th birthday of Calean Maclean, 'an agile man from Uist', who dances at our class in Skeabost on Skye. A local musician, Blair Douglas, wrote four new tunes for Calean's dance and recorded them.

  Lesley Thomson sent the following in March 2023 (<<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3077/|issue 3077>>):  
  My husband Gordon Thomson died unexpectedly of sepsis in Inverness ICU on October 18th 2022, aged 74.
  At the funeral tea at a hotel in Inverness dancers from the Inverness RSCDS branch danced another of his
  dances, <<ddd:Gillian's Strathspey#11299>>, named after a dance teacher and friend of ours.  
  Gordon was a qualified Scottish Country Dancing teacher who started a class at Felixstowe in Suffolk before we retired to the Isle of Skye in 2009 where we danced with the Skye branch.
  Being a mathematician he enjoyed composing complicated dances - a five couple dance called <<ddd:Lesley's Medley#12015>> became known as Lesley’s Mudlley because it was so complicated.  
  He was very proud that his dances are now danced worldwide and that <<ddd:Return to Shieldaig#14496>> will be danced at the Inverness Highland Ball this month. 


last_modified: 2023-05-08 10:39:59.858065+00
name: Reid, Lorna
display_name: Lorna Reid
location: N. Wales
notes:
  The deviser of <<ddd:Forty-five Years On>> is given as Lorna Reid. It is not certain if this is the same person as the deviser of <<ddd:Diamond Jubilee 2012>> attributed simply to "L Reid".


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:37:51.060425+00
name: MacNab, Mary Isdale
display_name: Mary Isdale MacNab
location: Vancouver, Canada
notes:
  See also <<ddpub:Scottish Dances collected by Mary Isdal MacNab>> (RSCDS publication) and its
  precursors, <<ddpub:MacNab Dances Vol 1>> and <<ddpub:MacNab Dances Vol 2>>.

  <<https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/|RSCDS London Branch>>
  operates <<https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/macnab|The Mary Isdale MacNab Collection>>,
  which includes scans of many of the dances associated with Mrs MacNab
  as originally published, as well as videos.

  ## Spelling-

  As reported in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2305/|issue 2305>> Mary Isdale MacNab is the correct spelling of her name. However some RSCDS publications and therefore the original SCDDB entry had her middle name as "Isdal".

  ## General Notes

  In the interest of correctness we should like to point out that while the database may give the impression
  that Mrs MacNab was a “deviser” of dances, the extent to which she was personally involved in the creation of
  much of the
  material associated with her is difficult to pin down with any certainty. Without doubt the main publications of “MacNab dances” put out by the RSCDS (see above)
  list her as a “collector”, but the actual provenance of the dances in
  question is impossible to ascertain, and sometimes the claimed origin of a dance does seem quite far-fetched.
  The fact that most of these dances are obviously quite unlike the rest of the traditional SCD repertoire also raises legitimate questions as to their actual origins.

  Based on this and in the absence of hard evidence to the contrary,
  it is not entirely unreasonable to conjecture that Mary Isdale MacNab did make at least some of the dances up herself, or
  changed them considerably prior to publication.
  Certainly “arranging” collected dances to conform to one's perception
  of an idealised “correct” version, sometimes modifying
  them extensively in the process,
  was something that in MacNab's time was not generally frowned upon. The Society used to do it, too.
  On the other hand, inventing entirely new dances from whole cloth (especially very unusual rococo ones)
  was much less accepted.
  Hence in some circumstances it might make a certain amount of sense to endow a newly
  devised dance with a fanciful yet impossible-to-verify back story, in order to give it more street credibility.

  As an extreme POV, to some the “MacNab dances” effectively
  represent the <<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossian|Poems of Ossian>> of the SCD world.

  ## Collecting vs. Devising

  For technical reasons, the database does not support a “dance collector” category, and
  most of the “MacNab dances” are credited to that prolific deviser of dances, “Unknown”, simply because that
  information is not available to us. As a result of this, most of the dances associated with Mrs MacNab aren't listed
  on the “Dances” tab of her detail page, but must be accessed through the RSCDS publications linked above, the
  entries on the “Publications” tab (including the “Dance(s) collected by Mary Isdale MacNab” pseudo-publication), and/or the RSCDS London Branch resource
  mentioned above.

  ## “Missing MacNabberies”

  On the London Branch site there is also a
  <<https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/List-of-The-Missing-MacNaberries-including-previously-unpublished-and-connected-dances-210512.pdf|list of more than 50 dance titles>> purportedly mentioned in correspondence by Mary Isdale MacNab but about which no details or descriptions are known. (**Note:** The list seems to have disappeared, or at any rate hidden very cleverly, in the great RSCDS London Branch web site redesign of 2023. There's a background article in <<link:thereel/295||8>> which is apparently still there.)

  If more information about any of these dances turns up we'd be happy to
  <<mailto:scddb-submissions@strathspey.org|add them>> to the database.


  ## Biography

  *The following brief biography was provided by <<ddp:Webb, Stephen#3325>>.*

  Mary Isdale (for this was her maiden name) was born in 1889 in Govan, SW Glasgow and was taught highland dancing as a child by E E Henderson. She and her family emigrated to Vancouver, Canada in 1907. In 1920 she married Allan MacNab from Lochgoilhead, their son is called Gordon. Mrs MacNab started teaching highland dancing from 1910, not confining herself to teaching the standard répertoire for highland dancing competitions she also collected, and eventually taught other less common dances.

  Her collecting started, when she was encouraged by some elderly highland ladies in Vancouver to learn some of the dances they knew as children. She found that other people were also willing to teach dances to her, and her mother encouraged her to write down what she learned. Most of her collecting was done up to the mid 1940s. She collected step-dances, sword-dances, quadrilles, figure dances both country and highland resulting in a large collection.
  Because her collecting simply involved writing down descriptions in note form told to her or from seeing dances danced it was not unusual for Mrs MacNab to have to reconstruct the dances as she believed, using her dance expertise, that would have been, often working on a dance with her dancing class to see it all fitted. In recording the dance description Mrs MacNab would also note down from whom the dance was collected and any associated story attached to it thus, bringing the dance to life and often establishing a provenance.

  Mrs MacNab was an extraordinarily unique teacher and dance collector without whose dedication many old and very interesting dances would have been lost. <<ddd:MacDonald of Sleat#4014>>, <<ddd:McKenzie of Seaforth#15781>>, <<ddd:Hebridean Weaving Lilt#2846>>, inter alia come to mind.
  Mrs MacNab gained her RSCDS Teaching Certificate when she first visited St Andrew’s Summer School to teach in 1948 the first of her nine sets of dances.
  Her forte though, was making dance programmes for festivals and gatherings when she would create a historical and balanced dancing spectacle. One such concert for which she was famous in Vancouver was the annual ‘Gathering of the Clans’. A particular favourite devised dance included was the spectacular, The Brooch of Lorne. Once in 1964 even taking a team to perform at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Mary Isdale MacNab died in November 1966; the Scottish dancing world losing one of its greatest advocates, exponents and ambassadors.

  The above synopsis is an abbreviated outline of Mrs MacNab’s dancing life, the reader is invited to see the full version in <<link:thethistle/33>>. Also, an excellent article on Mrs MacNab by Rosemary Coupe (with some information provided by Mary Murray) can be found in RSCDS Bulletin Issue 82, November 2004.
  Another article is in <<link:thereel/295||8>>.

  A summary of the dances collected and/or arranged and/or choreographed by Mary Isdale MacNab is given on the <<https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/macnab|London Branch website>>.


last_modified: 2023-03-21 21:42:36.681046+00
name: Bradley, Jenny
display_name: Jenny Bradley
location: Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire, UK
notes:
  Shortly after her death in 2023, the local Nottinghamshire branch had an article about Jenny Bradley on their news page at <<https://nottinghamrscds.org/news/>>.


last_modified: 2023-05-14 19:59:41.26264+00
name: Boehmer, Marie
display_name: Marie Boehmer
location: Canada
notes:
  An obituary of Marie Boehmer could originally be found at
  http://www.lifenews.ca/announcement/1921546-boehmer-marie-barker however that link is now defunct but is still accessible via the web archive at <<https://web.archive.org/web/20160424120640/http://www.lifenews.ca/announcement/1921546-boehmer-marie-barker>>.

  *The Waterloo Region Record* had an obituary at:
  http://www.catch21.ca/Life/Lifetimes/article/690474 but that is no longer accessible (and was not captured by the web archive).


last_modified: 2023-05-24 00:10:44.724437+00
name: Fitchet, Angus
shortname: Angus Fitchet
display_name: Angus Fitchet
notes:
  See <<https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/angus-fitchet1.html|the Box and Fiddle archive>> for more information about Angus Fitchet.


last_modified: 2023-05-29 09:24:07.031227+00
name: MacDonald, J
shortname: MacDonald J
display_name: John MacDonald (Sout Uist)
notes:
  Possible duplicate of <<ddp:#2595>>?  
  The "South Uist" originates here: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Pipe_Major_Wm._Gray%27s_Farewell_to_the_Glasgow_Police to keep the various John MacDonalds apart. This one has composing entries around 1950.


last_modified: 2023-06-28 12:24:46.651587+00
name: Ritchie, Jimmy
display_name: Jimmy Ritchie
notes:
  There is an obituary on the Box and Fiddle website: <<https://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/jimmy-ritchie-2001.html>>


last_modified: 2023-07-05 20:28:48.568166+00
name: RSCDS and ABF The Soldiers' Charity (Scotland)
display_name: RSCDS and ABF
notes:
  "ABF The Soldiers' Charity (Scotland)" is a charity for soldiers in Scotland. The "ABF The Soldiers' Charity" was founded as national charity of the British Army in 1944, back then named the "Army Benevolent Fund".


last_modified: 2023-07-05 22:54:46.168533+00
name: Seton, Bruce
display_name: Bruce Seton
notes:
  Bruce Seton (later Sir Bruce Lovat Seton of Abercorn, 11th Baronet) trained as a military officer but after a brief stint in the Black Watch he resigned his commission to take up acting. He appeared in the theatre and in a number of films – including the classic Ealing comedy, *Whisky Galore!* (1949), which describes how a ship carrying thousands of cases of whisky is shipwrecked near a ficticious Scottish island, to the delight of the natives –, but perhaps his most significant role was as the title character of the groundbreaking BBC crime series, *Fabian of the Yard* (1954–56).

  Seton learned to play the pipes during his time in the military and was considered to be reasonably competent although he reputedly wasn't very good at writing down his compositions.


last_modified: 2023-07-23 23:57:00.658864+00
name: RSCDS Perth and Perthshire Branch
shortname: Perth Branch
display_name: RSCDS Perth and Perthshire Branch
location: Perth, Scotland
notes:
  This is the branch including Perth, Scotland. The branch for Perth, Australia is <<ddp:Western Australia Branch RSCDS#412>>.


last_modified: 2023-07-23 23:57:00.689509+00
name: RSCDS Stirling Branch
display_name: RSCDS Stirling Branch
notes:
  In the past the Stirling Branch used the name "Stirlingshire Branch", e.g. printed in their 1987 publication "Scottish Country Dances".

  The Branch has been founded in 1927.


created: 2012-12-28 16:43:07.479489+00
last_modified: 2014-11-06 17:16:31.995258+00
name: Meldrum, P/M Robert
display_name: P/M Robert Meldrum
notes:
  Robert Meldrum was Pipe Major of the 93rd Highlanders in the 1870ies.

  At Piptunes.ca there is a nice <<http://www.pipetunes.ca/composers.asp?pg=Details&composerID=245|informative page>> about him as well as some <<http://www.pipetunes.ca/displayproduct.asp?catID=146&tuneID=1558|mp3 samples>> of his tunes.


created: 2022-12-09 21:30:55.977365+00
last_modified: 2023-07-28 14:06:53.171321+00
name: Foss, Hugh (Formby)
display_name: Hugh Foss (Formby)
notes:
  These are the successors of Hugh Foss.

  See also the extensive history in the extra info for the <<ddpub:Scottish Dance Archives#436>>.


last_modified: 2023-07-29 18:02:35.001114+00
name: Laidlaw, Ruary
display_name: Ruary Laidlaw
location: Kihikihi, New Zealand
email: ruarylaidlaw@gmail.com
notes:
  In addition to publishing books of dances, Ruary has also published "For a Year and A Day - A guide for Teaching Beginners and Elementary Dancers". He writes:  
  *It provides a programme for teaching Beginners and Elementary dancers the 64 steps and formations of Scottish Country Dancing at these levels. It also provides a list of dances for each of the 64 steps and formations that a teacher can use to teach each one of these, carefully arranged in a sequence that builds on what has gone before - there are no sudden surprises where there is something more difficult suddenly appearing alongside the focus.*


last_modified: 2023-08-20 23:43:38.752034+00
name: McAskill, Dr John
display_name: Dr John McAskill
notes:
  According to *The Piping Times*, “one of the great characters of the modern day piping fraternity”.

  See <<https://pipetunes.ca/composer/dr-john-macaskill/|here>> for a brief biography.


created: 2023-08-21 00:03:32.114289+00
last_modified: 2023-08-21 00:03:57.802592+00
name: MacKinnon, P/M Donald
display_name: P/M Donald MacKinnon
notes:
  Originally from Skye, MacKinnon served in the RAF during WWII and later became pipe major of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, with whom he saw action in Korea. Later he emigrated to Australia, where he died at some point before 1985.

  <<https://pipingpress.com/2017/05/16/history-pipe-major-donald-mackinnon-skye-and-australia/|Here>> are some more details about him.


created: 2023-08-09 19:16:06.651756+00
last_modified: 2023-08-22 10:22:25.381073+00
name: Dixon, Pat
display_name: Pat Dixon
location: Doncaster, UK
notes:
  From Sheffield RSCDS Scottish Dancing (Facebook) 7 August 2023
   ·
  RSCDS Sheffield wish to mark the passing of Pat Dixon, peacefully, yesterday evening, with her family beside her. 
  Pat started dancing with the Leeds University group in 1949 whilst she was working as a teacher in the area. Then life happened. Pat started dancing again in 1984 - country, highland and ladies step, and was a frequent visitor to summer school. Pat gained her teachers certificate in 1989.
  Pat taught at RSCDS Doncaster, RSCDS Retford, and for the Rotherham Scottish Dancers. She trained teams for the ASCDS and White Rose festivals, organised countless socials, and was a teacher training mentor. Scottish country dancing took Pat round the world and she made friends everywhere she went. 
  But more than that, Pat was our friend, and we will miss her laughter and sense of mischief - on and off the dance floor!
  We send love to Susan Shanley, Philip Matthews and families.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 23:01:10.919728+00
name: Drewry, John
display_name: John Drewry
location: Aberdeen
notes:
  There was an obituary of John Drewry in <<http://www.scotsman.com/|The Scotsman>>: see  <<https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-john-drewry-scottish-dance-deviser-and-academic-1532036>>.

  ##>>
  In a masterly piece of understatement, the citation by Aberdeen Branch supporting the award of the Society’s Scroll of Honour to John in 1999 begins:  
  »John is recognised world-wide as a deviser of dances and several of his dances have been published by the Society«. This, however, is typical of John’s own modesty.
  ##<<

  He was born 14 July 1923 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. He died aged 90 on 18 June 2014 in Aberdeen.

  Chris Ronald writes, on 27 feb. 2018:  Drewry fans may like to know that an index of his dances has just been placed by the Teachers' Association (Canada) on their website.  It can be seen at <<https://tac-rscds.org/index.php/special-topic/index-of-john-drewry-s-dances>>  

  An article on John by Stephen Webb appeared in <<link:thereel/289||12>>.

  An article in the April 2023 edition of the Orange County Ceilidh magazine has a link to collections of photographs taken by (or of) John Drewry and later uploaded by two of his friends. See <<https://www.flickr.com/photos/auchendean/collections/72157644424881229/>>.


last_modified: 2023-10-17 18:29:07.868797+00
name: Johnson (18C), Jno
display_name: Jno Johnson (18C)
notes:
  Jno is a diminutive for John.

  Biographical information from <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3312/|issue 3312>>:  
  John Johnson was an 18th century English music publisher, instrument maker and seller based in London. His business was founded in 1740, it is suspected he acquired at least some of the stock of Daniel Wright and Benjamin Cooke (publisher), both of whose publications he reprinted from the originals. Johnson came into prominence just as John Walsh was fading as the preeminent English publisher, and thus was able to publish works of Arne, Geminiani, and Scarlatti. He dated a large quantity of his publications, and the quality of engraving was high. Some of his more popular issues were volumes of country dances, some of which appeared in yearly sets.

  After about 1762, when it is presumed that John Johnson died, the imprints are mostly that of a “Mrs. Johnson” or “R. Johnson”, his widow.


last_modified: 2023-10-17 18:37:24.797307+00
name: Leeves, Rev. William
display_name: Rev. William Leeves
notes:
  Biographical information from <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3313/|issue 3313>>:  
  William Leeves was  born 11 Jun 1748 in Kensington and died 25 May 1828 in Wrington, Somerset.

  The Revd. William Leeves was Rector of Wrington from 1779 until 1828. He entered Holy Orders by way of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards having enlisted as an ensign in 1769. In 1779 he took Holy Orders and was appointed to the living of Wrington where he remained until his death, 49 years later. He was a contemporary of Hannah More and a frequent visitor to Barley Wood. He is perhaps best remembered for the fact that he wrote the music to the ballad of “Auld Robin Gray” as he was an accomplished musician and composer.


last_modified: 2023-10-22 10:56:07.084629+00
name: Dow, Daniel(Donald)
display_name: Daniel(Donald) Dow
notes:
  Mr Dow's first name is sometimes given as “Daniel” and sometimes as “Donald”. Both of these are acceptable translations of the Gaelic “Domhnull”.

  Further explanations from <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3320/|issue 3320>>:

  There was a habit of Presbyterian ministers in the early eighteenth century to substitute the nearest (in sound) biblical name to the Gaelic when recording births. So it’s likely his given name was “Domhnull” or something similar.

  His music was published under the name “Daniel”, but his private activities (e.g., marriage register entry) are under the name “Donald”.


last_modified: 2023-10-22 10:58:29.491157+00
name: Tullibardine, The Marchioness of
display_name: The Marchioness of Tullibardine
notes:
  Biographical details from <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3321/|issue 3321>>:
  Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE (née Ramsay; 6 November 1874 – 21 October 1960). Wife of John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl (he was styled Marquess of Tullibardine until 1917).


last_modified: 2023-08-23 21:10:23.390766+00
name: MacDonald, Malcolm
display_name: Malcolm MacDonald
location: Inver, Perthshire, UK
notes:
  This composer and musician was also known as Malcom M’Donald.

  Scanned online versions of the four Collections of Strathspey Reels he published between 1788 and likely 1797 are available at <<http://hms.scot/fiddle/author/12/|Historical Music of Scotland (HMS)>>.

  See also <<ddpub:Malcolm McDonald Collection, The>>
  for a modern republication by <<ddp:Taigh na Teud>>.

  Some bibliographical notes from the *Biographical Sketches of Early Scottish Musicians and Musicsellers* (by John Glen, from a foreword to <<ddpub:Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music, The>>, Edinburgh, 1891) - here obtained from <<https://tunearch.org/wiki/Biography:Malcolm_MacDonald|Tunearch.org>>:

  Malcom M’Donald published four collections of Strathspey Reels, &c. The first of these, as its title-page indicates, was entirely made up of his own exclusive compositions; but the subsequent three contain a number of tunes which are unquestionably the productions of other musicians. Many of the tunes composed by, or attributed to M’Donald, are of that strange wild nature so characteristic of the compositions of Daniel Dow.

  Of M’Donald’s personal history little or no authentic information can be obtained. The place of his birth is unknown. His second and subsequent collections, however, bear on them that, at the time of their appearance, he resided “at Dunkeld.” The present editor has been informed that his residence was at Inver, in the Parish of Little Dunkeld; and in the list of Subscribers to Niel Gow’s Second Collection, we find the entry “Mr. Malcolm Macdonald, Inver.”

  In a footnote appended to M’Donald’s Reel “Lady Haddo,” in Part II of The Beauties of Niel Gow (a work published by Nathaniel Gow), we are informed that M’Donald played the violoncello to Niel after the death of the latter’s brother Donald Gow.

  M’Donald is said to have died at Inver, but we can find no record of the date of his death. He is supposed, however, to have predeceased Niel Gow by a few years. The Parish Registers of the locality were burned or otherwise destroyed about the beginning of the present century, for the supposed purpose of preventing information being procured regarding the ages of persons required to join the Volunteers, Fencibles, or Militia of that period.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:42:58.739751+00
name: Meyer, Owen
display_name: Owen Meyer
location: London, UK
notes:
  Obituary published in Scottish Country Dancer Issue 28, April 2019.

  There is also an article about him in the Lives Remembered section of <<link:thereel/306||14>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-02 21:51:58.061257+00
name: Cook, Drummond
shortname: Drummond Cook
display_name: Drummond Cook
location: Forres, Scotland, UK
notes:
  Band leader and composer.

  See the <<https://www.forres-gazette.co.uk/news/drummond-will-be-missed-305376/|Forres Gazette>> for an obituary.


created: 2015-07-27 12:57:15.348269+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:39:02.526871+00
name: Martlew, Bar
display_name: Bar Martlew
notes:
  An interview with and obituary of Bar Martlew appeared in The Reel <<link:thereel/282||5>> and <<link:thereel/293||6>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:42:04.230979+00
name: Mayr, Susi
display_name: Susi Mayr
location: Vienna, Austria
notes:
  Susi Mayr was an excellent dancer and teacher of both scottish country dancing and Step Dancing. She was a co-founder of the <<http://www.rscdsvienna.org/|RSCDS Vienna Branch>> and the driving force behind the founding of the <<https://www.rscds-ib.org/|International Branch>>.

  Furthermore, she organized the <<https://scdkaleidoscope1.strathspey.org/|SCD Kaleidoscope>> in 2009, the first international conference with presentations and discussions covering many different aspects related to SCD. It was a conference for SCD dancers, teachers and musicians from around the world. The <<https://scdkaleidoscope1.strathspey.org/|conference page>> is still online.

  On 7th July 2012 she lost the battle against cancer at an age of only 55 years.

  The <<https://www.rscds-ib.org/index.php?page=6|Susi Mayr Fund>> of the International Branch to promote the enjoyment and appreciation of Scottish Country Dancing and its music worldwide is also named after her. 

  Tributes and obituaries to Susi have appeared in <<https://www.rscds.org/about/members-magazine|The Scottish Country Dancer 15>>,  on the page of <<https://www.rscds-ib.org/index.php?page=6|The Susi Mayr Fund>> and <<link:thereel/281||6>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:46:23.068506+00
name: Reeve, John
display_name: John Reeve
notes:
  A brief outline of John Reeve’s life can be found under Lives Remembered in <<link:thereel/303||15>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:54:27.374477+00
name: Zobel, Bill
display_name: Bill Zobel
email: billivan@cox.net
notes:
  An article by Bill on his background and opinions about dancing appeared in <<link:thereel/305||11>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:58:44.239541+00
name: Brown, Malcolm
display_name: Malcolm Brown
location: Dunnington, York, UK
email: mlamontbrown@btopenworld.com
notes:
  An article by Malcolm on his background and opinions about dancing appeared in <<link:thereel/302||13>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:59:29.588022+00
name: Clement, Bill
shortname: Bill Clement
display_name: Bill Clement
notes:
  A tribute to Bill by Jeremy Hill appeared in <<link:thereel/281||6>>.  

  Obituary from <<http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-bill-clement-mbe-inspirational-and-gifted-teacher-had-great-love-of-piping-1-2375306|The Scotsman>>


last_modified: 2023-09-03 22:59:52.41933+00
name: Clowes, Roy
display_name: Roy Clowes
location: Ormskirk, Lancashire, UK
notes:
  Roy's involvement with the <<ddpub:Scottish Dance Archives#436>> are mentioned in <<link:thereel/308||11>>.

  Roy wrote a series of five articles for *<<ddpub:#73|The Reel>>* under the general title _Thinking about Dances_. Each considers one aspect of devising dances and is illustrated by one of his own dances. See the following links:  

  1. <<link:thereel/106|Thinking of Dances|3>> (<<ddd:Jig on the Bridge#3264>>)
  2. <<link:thereel/107|From Long to Square|3>> (<<ddd:Kyle Strathspey#3551>>)
  3. <<link:thereel/108|Standing Still and Moving Figures|3>> (<<ddd:Mile Down the Road, A#4373>>)
  4. <<link:thereel/109|Progressions|3>> (<<ddd:Laird's Medley, The#3663>>)
  5. <<link:thereel/110|Longer Sequences – Bigger Sets|5>> (<<ddd:Tapsalteerie#6464>>)


last_modified: 2023-10-17 18:47:34.89229+00
name: Roever, Ulrich / Korb, Michael
display_name: Ulrich Roever / Michael Korb
notes:
  Ulrich “Uli” Roever (d. 1997) was a German composer, arranger and sound engineer. He was the founder of Compost-Tonstudio in Berlin.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 23:00:39.450534+00
name: Donald, Robert
display_name: Bob Donald
location: Liverpool, UK
notes:
  Bob Donald has contributed to Scottish Country Dancing as all of the following:

  - a historian and archivist of SCD;

  - an SCD teacher and member of demonstration teams in the Merseyside area;

  -  the editor and publisher of numerous dances of <<ddp:Foss, Hugh#129>>, taken from the notes left after Hugh's death in 1971. These dances formed the book <<ddpub:#160|The Rose Collection>>, published in 1978.

  - a devisor of dances, including two published through <<ddpub:Scottish Dance Archives#436>> (see below) and others in his own booklet <<ddpub:#228|The Green Lochan and 11 other Scottish dances>>, of which perhaps <<ddd:Gavin's Reel>> (5C) is best known;

  - the co-founder and operator of <<ddpub:Scottish Dance Archives#436>>, jointly with the late <<ddp:Clowes, Roy#82>>. During its 10 years (mostly the 1970s) this service helped in the testing and publishing of 190 newly devised SCD, on behalf of numerous devisors. More details can be found under the “Extra Info” tab in the separate entry for this;

  - the provider over some years in the 1970s, with his wife Mamie (born 1936), of the "Hugh Foss (Formby)" mail-order service for distributing instructions (then all in hardcopy) for SCD outside the RSCDS remit. Bob and Mamie took over the distribution service which Hugh Foss had set up and which Hugh's widow Alison had briefly continued after Hugh's death. (Subsequently another organisation "<<ddp:Scottish National Dance Company#344>>"  - SNDC - continued this role until the online era began.);

  - as the creator, again with Mamie, of the former website  www.dancearchives.co.uk, which provided an online catalogue to their extensive archive of SCD instructions and related literature. The hardcopy documents of this archive have been deposited with the Music Department of Edinburgh Central Library as the Donald Collection. For the online website Bob also prepared online-viewable transcripts of some 250 dances. That website is no longer operational because in 2020 the site was placed in the care of RSCDS London Branch; it is now accessible at the link <<https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/dance-instructions>>.


last_modified: 2023-09-03 23:03:30.511449+00
name: Foss, Hugh
display_name: Hugh Foss
notes:
  Hugh Rose Foss was born in Kobe, Japan, on 13 May 1902. One of five children of the Rt Revd Hugh Foss, Bishop of Osaka, he went to Hoylake and Marlborough College (a boarding school in Wiltshire that at the time catered for the sons of Church of England clergy) and in 1924 graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with a degree in mathematics.

  After university, Foss joined the “Government Code and Cipher School” – the precursor of today's GCHQ, the UK's equivalent to the NSA – as a cryptanalyst. During World War II he worked at Bletchley Park, distinguishing himself in various ways, including as the first person to break one day's worth of German Enigma traffic in November 1940 – the day in question was 8 May 1940, which cryptographers today refer to as “Foss's Day” (Foss had been working on early versions of the German cipher machine, which used to be commercially available, since the late 1920s). A fluent Japanese speaker since his childhood in Kobe, he not only broke the Japanese naval attaché cipher in 1934 (together with Oliver Strachey) but also headed the Japanese Naval Section of Bletchley Park from 1942 to 1945. Foss also worked with US Navy cryptographers on deciphering Japanese communications – to do so, he was sent to Washington, DC, towards the end of 1943, where his tall and thin stature, red hair and beard, combined with his predilection for wearing sandals, earned him the nickname “Lend-Lease Jesus”.

  After the war, Foss stayed with GCHQ until he retired in 1953. He moved to Dalry, near Castle Douglas, in Scotland in 1955 and died at his home there on 23 December 1971.

  Hugh Foss became interested in SCD in the mid-1930s and joined the Chelsea Reel Club in London. Even at Bletchley Park, he ran a SCD class and put on regular dances (including a full-dress affair on St Andrew's Night). Later in life he served as President and Committee Chairman of RSCDS London Branch and it was during this time and through his initiative that the London Branch newsletter, *The Reel* was founded; Hugh also served as its second editor. Being a mathematician by training, Foss excelled at devising new dances whose inventiveness and precision remain unchallenged to this day, but he also contributed greatly to the “theoretical” aspects of SCD, writing articles that expounded on various topics of interest. Many patterns that are taken for granted in modern dances, such as five-couple dances with couples 1 and 3 starting simultaneously, were pioneered by Foss. He was also the first to introduce the concept of “fugues”, patterned on the type of musical composition, to SCD.

  Hugh Foss was a first-rate independent thinker, and it comes as no great surprise that his relationship to the leadership of the (R)SCDS was not always simple. He used to encourage research and experimentation (in issue 100 of *The Reel*, he reminisces that

  > At that time [1951], Scottish Country Dancing had no free press.
  > Many words were spoken, but none written. The S.C.D.S. Bulletin
  > gave only the official view and rarely dealt with research. “The Reel”
  > was free to be controversial,  […]

  and he frequently exhorted dancers to “roll back the carpet” and try new things). It is perhaps telling that, in spite of Foss's devising over 150 dances, some of which became very popular indeed, it took the Society until 2007 to acknowledge his contribution to SCD by (re-)publishing three of his most well-known creations: <<ddd:Fugal Fergus>>, <<ddd:John McAlpin>> and <<ddd:Polharrow Burn>>, and later re-issuing his book <<ddpub:Dances to Song Tunes#156>>.

  The <<https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/cms/record_attachments/1776.pdf|Bletchley Alphabet>> mentions Hugh Foss:

  > _F_ is for Foss – six foot in his shoes  
  > Seen in a kilt, but nir tartan troos  
  > If on a Friday a stroll you will take  
  > You'll find him dancing a reel by the lake.

  <<http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/75595|Hugh Foss>> in the *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*  
  <<https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/roll-of-honour/3153|Hugh Foss>> in the <<https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/|Bletchley Park web site>>'s “Roll of Honour”

  Although Hugh’s interest in new Scottish dances became clear during his editorship of The Reel, the vast bulk of his own dances did not emerge in print until after he had retired in 1956 and moved to Dalry in Scotland. The one book of his dances that appeared before was the <<ddpub:#152|Angus Fitchet Album>>, published by J. S. Kerr around 1955, for which he was asked to fit dances to tunes composed by <<ddp:Fitchet, Angus#1554>>, then a well-known Scottish fiddler and bandleader. From that book, Hugh’s dance <<ddd:J. B. Milne#3172>> has remained popular to the present day.
  But although that book must have proved popular – it was re-issued twice – it was clear that music publishers were not comfortable with the artwork challenges of complicated Scottish dance diagrams. So starting about 1963, Hugh began producing his own books and leaflets. He also produced <<ddpub:#155|sheets and leaflets>> featuring dances by other devisors, gave advice on publication, and published at least one album solely of music, <<ddpub:The Ashley Album#341>> with tunes by <<ddp:Main, Nan#1607>>.

  Apart from publishing many dance instructions, Hugh also wrote books about SCD and its history, for example <<http://www.rscds-swws.org/news/stories/Foss-SCD-Evolution.pdf|Notes on Evolution in Scottish Country Dancing>>.
  He also wrote many articles for The Reel which were later gathered into leaflets called <<ddpub:#406|Roll Back the Carpet>> and We Agree to Differ.

  Given Hugh Foss’s close association with *The Reel*, many articles in it over the years have been connected with him, his role in RSCDS London Branch and his dances.
  Two recent articles by <<ddp:Conrad, Adrian#1276>>  in <<link:thereel/302||8>> and <<link:thereel/303||8>> focus on Hugh’s legacy to SCD, and at the end of the second article is an index to other earlier ones, notably the fine biography of Hugh in <<link:thereel/200||8>> by its editor Andrew Kellett.


last_modified: 2023-10-03 22:13:15.457444+00
name: Craigmyle
display_name: Craigmyle
notes:
  The note in book 22 states that Lord Criagmyle devised <<ddd:Laird of Milton's Daughter, The#3659>> while in India.
  Mark Dancer in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3288/|issue 3288>> writes that:

  > This would make it Thomas Shaw, 3rd Baron Craigmyle KStJ, 1923 – 1998. (<<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shaw,_3rd_Baron_Craigmyle>>).
  >
  > He succeeded his father as Baron Craigmyle in 1944, and held the title until his death in 1998, so he’s the person who would be referred to as Lord Craigmyle (or just Craigmyle), at the time of publication.
  >
  >He was posted to India in the late 1940s (where he met his future wife), and was back in England by the mid 1950s (where he was married in 1955).


created: 2014-05-09 21:09:32.623389+00
last_modified: 2023-10-05 09:48:26.250084+00
name: Scotch Mist
shortname: Scotch Mist
display_name: Scotch Mist
notes:
  The band "Bobby Brown and the Scottish Accent" was the vision of Bobby Brown (July 13 1941-May 3 2011).   
  On his death, the band changed its name to “Scotch Mist”, and the same day Stef Hutka joined it as fiddler.  At the changeover, one CD, "Eight Bars of Magic", was produced using the name “Laird Brown with the Scottish Accent”, but the band never used that name in any other context.  Both bands were based in Toronto, Canada.  
  For the last 3 years the band has continued the tradition of playing for Scottish Country Dance Music and workshops throughout North America.  

  The current (5/2014) members are:   
  - Lead Accordion: Laird Brown
  - Violin: Stefanie Hutka
  - 2nd Accordion: Kerry D. Boax
  - Piano: Donny Wood
  - Drums: Warren Beesley
  - Bass: Rob Wolanski

  When writing tunes, Laird uses the name “Laird J. Brown”.


last_modified: 2023-10-13 14:24:06.448266+00
name: Cahusac (18C), Thomas
display_name: Thomas Cahusac (18C)
notes:
  *Information supplied in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3299/|issue 3299>>:*

  Thomas Cahusac was a prolific music publisher and seller of all kinds of musical instruments working at the sign of the “Two Flutes & Violin” opposite St Clement Dane’s Church in the Strand prior to 1785 when he moved to 196 Strand close to the present day Savoy Hotel.


last_modified: 2023-10-13 14:29:12.827805+00
name: Boag (18C), William
display_name: William Boag (18C)
notes:
  *Information supplied in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3299/|issue 3303>>:*

  London-based music seller, printer and publisher founded by William Boag (the elder) c.1795. Published songs, instrumental works by Pleyel, Pichl etc and religious tracts.


last_modified: 2023-10-13 16:14:03.397938+00
name: Cantelo (18C), James
display_name: James Cantelo (18C)
location: Bath
notes:
  *Information supplied in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3299/|issue 3307>>:*

  James Cantelo of Bath started printing dance manuals in 1783.


last_modified: 2023-10-17 17:56:59.562932+00
name: Preston (18C), John
display_name: John Preston (18C)
notes:
  Information from <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3304/|issue 3304>>:  
  Music printer, publisher and seller of prints, musical instrument maker.
  Traded alone from c. 1774-89, as John Preston and Son from c. 1789-98, as Thomas Preston c. 1798-1834.
  Purchased stock and plates of Robert Bremner 1789.
  Son Thomas was partner and successor, purchased stock of various firms.


last_modified: 2023-10-17 18:11:37.873876+00
name: Dezais (18C), Jacques
display_name: Jacques Dezais (18C)
notes:
  Information from <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3310/|issue 3310>>:

  Jacques Dezais was born before 1680 and died after 1726.

  The first mention of his name can be found in the IX. Recueil de Danses pour l’Année 1711 . In this he announces the death of Raoul-Auger Feuillet on “14. juin de cette année (1710)”. He describes himself as “l’un des ses Elèves”, and as heir to Feuillet’s privileges. In doing so, he continued Feuillet’s successful series of annual Receuil de Danses until 1725. As early as 1712 he published a 2e Recueil de nouvelles contredances , in the style of Feuillet’s own publication . Also following Feuillet’s tradition, he worked with a famous choreographer from the Paris Opera for the Receuils de Danses ; However, for the first few years he replaced Feuillet’s colleague Louis-Guillaume Pécour (1653-1729) with the then star Jean Balon (1676-ca. 1729) and expanded most of the collections with his own choreography.

  Dezais is also one of the key figures behind the creation of the Cotillon francaise, as he is one of the earliest editors and choreographers of such dances. With the Cotillon des Fêtes de Thalie (Paris 1715) he was the first ever to publish a dance for four couples.

  I would assume X. Recueil de Danses pour l’Année 1712 (Paris 1712) as the book Mitchell refers to in Whetherley Book 25 as “Recuell de Contredanses” (1712).


last_modified: 2023-10-17 19:01:03.089703+00
name: Riddell, John (or Joseph)
display_name: John Riddell
notes:
  Sometimes referred to as “Joseph Riddell”. “John” seems to be the more widely used name.

  SCDDB internally has "John (or Joseph)" which may help with searches.

  <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3317/|Issue 3317>> explains that confusion appears to come from Gow attributing Riddle’s tunes as “Jo. Riddle” instead of “Jno. Riddle”.


last_modified: 2023-10-22 11:19:13.028187+00
name: Button and Whittaker
display_name: Button and Whittaker
notes:
  Also spelled as "Button and Whitaker" with a single t. For more information see issue <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/1628/>>.

  <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3336/|Issue 3336>> gives their full names as Samuel James Button & John Whitaker.


created: 2015-06-10 10:07:29.794359+00
last_modified: 2023-11-10 10:06:59.714744+00
name: Oyama, Yoshiki
display_name: Yoshiki Oyama
location: Tokai, Japan
notes:
  Alba SCD group.

  You can listen to his citation for the RSCDS scroll of honour and acceptance speech at <<https://youtu.be/oa6qUYRwRSY?t=4968>>.


last_modified: 2023-11-13 13:00:28.294505+00
name: Brown, Laird with The Scottish Accent
shortname: Laird Brown
display_name: Laird Brown with The Scottish Accent
notes:
  On the death of Bobby Brown on May 3rd, 2011, the band “Bobby Brown and the Scottish Accent” changed its name to “Scotch Mist”, and the same day Stef Hutka joined it as fiddler.  At the changeover, one CD, "Eight Bars of Magic", was produced using the name “Laird Brown with the Scottish Accent”, but the band never used that name in any other context.  Both bands were based in Toronto, Canada.  When writing tunes, Laird uses the name “Laird J. Brown”.  

  The band used to have a website (http://www.scotchmist.ca/) but that is now defunct and taken over for purposes completely unrelated to Scottish dancing.


last_modified: 2023-11-16 14:41:02.332779+00
name: McIntyre, Duncan
display_name: Duncan McIntyre
notes:
  SCDDB originally entered this composer as "Mrs McIntyre" which does appear in one source.

  But <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3385/|issue 3385>> reports it is actually "Mr McIntyre" and the <<https://tunearch.org/wiki/Miss_Coxe_(2)|Traditional Tune Archive>> even gives his name as Duncan.

  See <<https://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/MISSA_MISSF.htm#MISS_COXE_[2]>> for further biographical details and discussion.


last_modified: 2023-12-08 21:07:05.291081+00
name: Whitehead, Robert & the Danelaw Band
shortname: Robert Whitehead
display_name: Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band
email: robertwwhitehead@btinternet.com
notes:
  Musicians playing with Robert Whitehead and The Danelaw Band have changed over time. In 2021 the band were Robert Whitehead (accordion), Graeme Whitehead (2nd accordion) and Alan Brown (piano/keyboard).


last_modified: 2023-12-28 12:33:19.121867+00
name: Anderson, Tom
display_name: Tom Anderson
location: Shetland
notes:
  In 1948, Tammy formed and led the Islesburgh Dance Band which was to retain its popularity until disbanded twenty years later ; the band members over the years read like a ‘who’s-who’ of Shetland musicians – Tammy, Winnie Leslie (now Leask), Alice Sutherland (now Nicolson), Violet Scott (now Tulloch), Joan Stevenson (now Russell), Pearl Deyall, Larry Peterson, Lowrie Fraser, Stewart and Marjory Smith, Peter Leith, Tom Georgeson, John Kerr, Drew Robertson, Frankie Sinclair and Peerie Willie.

  (<<http://boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/dr-tom-anderson-mbe.html>>)


last_modified: 2024-01-09 20:26:19.617105+00
name: Mason, John
display_name: John Mason
location: Troon
notes:
  He was the co-founder, musical director, and conductor of the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra from its creation in 1980 until his death in 2011


last_modified: 2024-02-05 16:12:05.197188+00
name: Corson, Mina
display_name: Mina Corson
location: Edinburgh, Scotland
notes:
  Mina Corson is a deviser of dances, the most popular of which is probably Miss Allie Anderson. She still resides in Edinburgh.

  She taught and examined for the RSCDS at St Andrews Summer School and internationally.  This could be confirmed by the RSCDS. She
  visited South Africa and Winnipeg. She was a member of the 1950s international demonstration team with Jean Yates and Alice Mann Stanley, among others one
  such visit was to Nice in 1952.

  She was also involved with the Edinburgh Fancy for several years.

  (source: Janet Hardy, her niece, 2016)


last_modified: 2024-03-04 19:38:08.235146+00
name: Friendly, Brooke & Sackett, Chris
display_name: Brooke Friendly & Chris Sackett
location: Oregon, USA
notes:
  Brooke Friendly & Chris Sackett are mostly known for devising English Country Dances but also devise Scottish Country Dances.


last_modified: 2024-03-24 16:49:09.070999+00
name: Edwardson, Graham
display_name: Graham Edwardson
location: Shetland
notes:
  Graham Edwardson is a former member of the Oakbank Sound band.

  A story about Graham's tune "Jack's Pocket Ashtray" was posted by Geoff Wright at The Session that he seemingly has heard at "Take the floor":  
  *"I heard Robbie Shepherd telling the tale about Jack having a habit of nipping his ciggies and putting the tab in his pocket whilst playing in the band. He eventually set his pocket on fire."*


