Dates, times, entrance costs etc
Dancing will take place:-
- outdoors in Princes Street Gardens at the Ross Bandstand on
Mondays from 27th May to 22nd July
- indoors on Tuesdays from
28th May to 27th August at Fairmilehead Parish Church Hall,
Frogston Road West
Click here for the Programmes for
May to July 2019 (as a pdf)
Note that two changes have been made to what appears in that
leaflet.
- On 17th June the band will be Iain MacPhail and his band
- On 15th July the band will be Stuart Anderson and his band
This leaflet comprises two pages intended to be
back-to-back. If your printer does not do two-sided printing, then
you may find it convenient to print both pages and manually stick them
back-to-back.
Dancing, whether indoors or out, begins at 7.30pm and continues until
9.30pm. Entrance is £5 for adults and £1 for children.
What do you need to know to participate?
The events in the Princes Street Gardens are open to all, from
experienced dancers to spectators. As in previous years, each dance
will be demonstrated once by a team of experienced dancers. The
programmes principally comprise dances for which prior experience is
desirable, but several simpler dances are also included which can be
picked up instantly, and there are one or two of modest complexity
which can be managed if sufficient people in the set know the
dance.
The indoor dances are not demonstrated, but are called once before
the dance. These dances, therefore, are more suitable for those
with prior knowledge.
Need a reminder of the steps?
These days there is a wealth of videos on the internet of groups
performing Scottish country dances, so it can be helpful to type the
name of the dance into a search engine like Google or Yahoo and investigate
some of the suggested links.
You may also find it helpful to refer to the following collection:-
Note that we cannot guarantee the quality of dancing shown in
these videos. Note also that some videos may contain more than one
dance, so they may not begin with the one you were looking
for.
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