On this page you can find details (including cribs and diagrams) of our programmes for the 2018 festival – mass, demonstration, highland and junior programmes for the afternoon dancing and the programme for the evening dance.
In the afternoon, the adult massed dancing is interspersed with children’s dances, demonstration dances and highland dances.
Massed dancing
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| 1 | Grimaldi 700 | 88R Sq |
Goldring: Auld Friends Meet
|
square set |
| 2 | Mrs Stewart’s Jig | 4x32J | Ligtmans: RSCDS XXXV | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| The Bonnie White Rose | 3x32S | Drewry: Bon Accord | 3 couples in a 4 couple set | |
| 3 | Scott Meikle | 4x32R | McLean: RSCDS XLVI | 4 couple set |
| The Rose of the North | 3x32S | Goldring: Silver Jubilee 25 – Leeds Branch | 3 couples in a 4 couple set | |
| 4 | Whigmaleeries | 4x32R | Ivory: Imp 1-3 | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| Gypsy Dreams | 3x32S | Glasspool: Itch to Dance | 2 couples in a 4 couple set, 1 & 3s starting | |
| 5 | The Festival Man | 4x32J | Trafford: RSCDS XLVIII | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| Barbara’s Strathspey | 3x32S | McKinnell: RSCDS XLVI | 3 couples in a 4 couple set | |
| 6 | Jenny Freeman’s Strathspey | 3x32S | Downey: Cane Toad | 2 couples in a 4 couple set, 1 & 3s starting |
| Fair Enough | 4x32J | Halpenny: RSCDS LI | 4 couple set | |
| 7 | The Dashing White Sergeant | 32R | RSCDS III |
Group demonstration dances
| A | Awa’ Tae the Fair | 128J | The Ormskirk Scottish Dances Book 1 | |
| B | Old and Dangerous | 3x32S, 1 & 3s starting | San Andreas Collection | |
| C | Boxing the Compass | 2X32S+2X32R | Malcolm Brown, Instructions on the website | |
| D | Deb’s Christmas Cracker | 4x32J | Dunedin Dances Book 6 |
Highland dances
| The Highland Fling | 4 steps | |
| Blue Bonnets (Mrs West Version) | 6 steps | |
| The Shepherd’s Crook | 1×72 S | |
| Strathspey and Half Tulloch | S32 + R64 |
Junior dances
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| 1 | The Machine without Horses | 32J | Rutherford: Book 12 |
| 2 | The Triumph | 24R | Gow: Book 1 |
| 3 | The Hebridean Weaving Lilt | MacNab Dances Vol 1 | |
| 4 | The Haymakers | 48J | Book 2 |
| 5 | Bill Clement MBE | 32J | Wilkinson: Book 47 |
| 6 | The Flying Scotsman | 32J | Thurston: Collins Little Books: Scottish Dance |
| 7 | Petronella | 32R | Book 1 |
| 8 | The Goat Fell Gallop | 32J | Goldring: Graded and Social Dances 2 |
Evening dance – starts at 7pm
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| 1 | Miss Allie Anderson | 8x32J | Corson: RSCDS Leaflets | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| 2 | The Countess of Dunmore’s Reel | 8x32R | MacCuish Bark: RSCDS 49 | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| 3 | The Moray Rant | 3x48S | Drewry: Silver City | 3 couples in a 3 couple set |
| 4 | Neil M Grant | 8x32J | Grant: RSCDS 49 | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| 5 | Whigmaleeries | 8x32R | Ivory: Imperial 1-3 | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| 6 | Barbara’s Strathspey | 8x32S | McKinnell: RSCDS 46 | 3 couples in 4 couple set |
| 7 | The Immigrant Lass | 4x32J | Jay: RSCDS 39 | 4 couples in a 4 couple set |
| 8 | The Powder Monkey | 64S+64R | Tyler: Exeter 40 | Square set |
| INTERVAL | ||||
| 9 | Roaring Jelly | 8x32J | Foss: Glendarroch | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| 10 | Broadford Bay | 8x32R | Grant: RSCDS Leaflets | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| 11 | The Cashmere Shawl | 8x32S | Boyd: Strathtay | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| 12 | Gaelforce Wind | 8x32J | Haynes: RSCDS Graded 3 | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| 13 | Midnight Oil | 5x48R | Drewry: Bankhead 3 | 5 couples in a 5 couple set |
| 14 | Culla Bay | 4x32S | Dix: RSCDS 41 | Square set |
| 15 | The Zoologist | 8x32J | Brown: RSCDS 46 | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| 16 | The Highland Rambler | 8x40R | Goldring: Silver Jubilee 25 – Leeds Branch | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
| EXTRAS | ||||
| Jean Martin of Aberdeen | 3x32S | Johnstone Magazine Dances 2005-2009 | 3 couple set | |
| Blooms of Bon Accord | 4x32R | Drewry: Deeside 2 | 4 couples in a 4 couple set | |
| The Sailor | 8x32H | RSCDS 24 | 3 couples in a 4 couple set | |
| Hooper’s Jig | 8x32J | MMM | 3 couples in a 4 couple set |
