Hogmanay in Athens: January 5, 2025

YOU ARE INVITED TO:

Hogmanay Dance and Potluck

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Shade Community Center, 2380 Old Rte 33, Shade, Ohio

2:30 – 5:30 pm

With live music by Boys of the Hock!

Come celebrate the Scottish New Year with an afternoon of dancing!

Dancers: $10 – $20 sliding scale. (Please don’t let finances keep you away!)

Spectators: $5

This event is informal, but feel free to dress up if you wish.

Dances will be walked through at least once. Talk-throughs will be gender neutral.

Please bring a potluck item to share. We’ll enjoy a sit-down meal at the end of the evening.

Winter weather policy: We’ll dance as long as Athens County is at a Level 0 or 1 Snow Emergency at 11 am. We’ll cancel if Athens County is at a Level 2 or 3 snow emergency at 11 am. Please check the facebook group for weather updates in borderline cases.

Can’t wait to dance with you!

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Program:

New Year Jig

A Trip to Bavaria

The Hunting Horn

Thanks For All the Dancing

Flowers of Edinburgh

Intermission

Antarctica Bound

The Old Man of Storr

The Silver Grey

Follow Me Home

The De’il Amang the Tailors

Waltz

Potluck dinner

Use this link to see the list of dances along with tabs to see cribs, diagrams, and videos when available. 

Autumn Gold: A Tea Dance in Dayton

Cincinnati & Dayton Classes Of the Cincinnati Branch RSCDS host:

Autumn Gold

An Afternoon of Scottish Country  Dancing

Saturday, November 9, 2024

1:30pm – 5:30 pm

Michael Solomon Pavillion: 2917 Berkley St # 3, Dayton , Ohio 45409

Cost $ 25

Featuring live music by Keltricity of Lousiville, Kentucky

Programme:

Hooper’s Jig J

Rose of the North S

Fireworks Reel R

The Hunting Horn J

Culla Bay S

Orpington Caledonians R

Capital Jig J

Piper and the Penguin R

The Gentleman S

Trip to Timber Ridge R

Flight of the Falcon J

Orchards of Armagh S

De’il Amang the Tailors R

Use this link to see the list of dances along with tabs to see cribs, diagrams, and videos when available.

Please register here, then choose one of the payment options below.

Online: Pay via credit card, bank account, or paypal account ($26.25)

Checks: $25 payable to RSCDS Cincinnati Class, sent to Andy May 5626 Monica Drive, Fairfield OH 45014

Questions? Contact Tracey Applebee (513-600-5852) or Joyce Lindsey (937-620-2782)

 

Bealltainn in Athens

Bealltainn in Athens

YOU ARE INVITED TO:

Bealltainn Dance and Potluck

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Shade Community Center, 2380 Old Rte 33, Shade, Ohio

3:30 – 6:30 pm

With live music by Reeling Around

$10 – $15 sliding scale

This event is informal, but feel free to dress up if you wish.

Dances will be walked through at least once. Talk-throughs will be gender neutral.

Please RSVP!

Come celebrate the Celtic beginning of summer with an afternoon of dancing!

Cost: To be announced. If money is an issue we’d rather have you come than stay home. Please don’t let finances keep you away!

Please bring a potluck item to share. We’ll enjoy a sit-down meal at the end of the evening.

Can’t wait to dance with you!

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Program:

Strip the Willow

The Machine Without Horses

Summer Wooing

Sugar Candie

The Kelloholm Jig

Intermission

Rory o’More

A Trip to Bavaria

New Year Jig

12 Coates Crescent

Antarctica Bound

Potluck dinner

Use this link to see the list of dances along with tabs to see cribs, diagrams, and videos when available. Or download the gender-neutral cribs.

 

Scottish Workshop and Dance in Kentucky

YOU ARE INVITED TO:

A Workshop & Dance in Kentucky

When: Saturday, March 2

Stretch your brain and body with a workshop by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society certificated teacher TRACEY APPLEBEE:

Time: 2 pm to 5 pm

Experience level: The workshop is recommended for dancers who know the basic steps (Skip Change, Slip Step, Pas De Basque, Strathspey travelling and setting), as well as Reels of 3 and 4, Corner figures, Poussette, and Allemande.

Men’s dress: Scottish casual

Then dance the night away at the evening social dance:

Start time: 7:30 pm

Live music by Keltricity

Men’s dress: Scottish dress
Ladies’ dress: Scottish dress casual or formal

Set list:

The Greenbelt Jig
The Falkirk Lass
JB Milne
The Kellolhm Jig
Jim Dougal of Eyemouth
The Duran Ranger
–Intermission–
A Capital Jig
Barbara’s Strathspey
Trip to Bavaria
Pelorus Jack
The Orchards of Co. Armagh
Mairi’s Wedding

Location for both workshop and dance: Midway Presbyterian Church
103 N. Turner Street
Midway, Kentucky 40347

Please RSVP prior to March 1, 2024 to joyceschase@att.net.

Cost:

Workshop and Dance: $35
Workshop only: $15
Dance only: $20

Two Scholarships available based on need. Please ask your teacher to write a brief note and send to joyceschase@att.net.

Flier with more information.

Cribs and videos for the evening dance.

Scottish Dance Workshop in Athens

YOU ARE INVITED TO:

A Scottish Dance Workshop in Athens

When: Saturday, January 13

Warm up your brain and body with a morning social dance: 10 am – 11:30 am. Set list

Stay for the main event — a workshop by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society certificated teacher TRACEY APPLEBEE: 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm

End with a potluck: 4:30 pm

Recommended donation: $10 (Pay at the door.)

RSVP required! (Space is limited.)

Location: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens

184 Longview Heights Rd, Athens, Ohio

Experience level: Recommended for intermediate dancers familiar with strathspey, allemande, quick-time poussette, and reels of three.

We’ll share a potluck dinner at the conclusion of the workshop. So bring your dance shoes and a potluck dish to share!

For more information, please contact:

Anna Hess

anna@kitenet.net

740-300-0352

Hogmanay in Athens

YOU ARE INVITED TO:

Hogmanay Dance Party and Potluck

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens

184 Longview Heights Rd

Athens, Ohio

4 – 7:15 pm

Please RSVP!

Come ring in the New Year at the Scottish time and in the Scottish style!

We’ll be alternating RSCDS dances and ceilidh dances so everybody can participate. Dances will be taught gender neutrally (larks and robins) and will be enjoyed to recorded music.

Cost: $3 recommended donation. Unitarians and children under 12 get in free. For everyone else, if money is an issue we’d rather have you come than stay home. Please don’t let finances keep you away!

Please bring a potluck item to share. We’ll enjoy a sit-down meal at the end of the evening before ringing in the new year at midnight Scottish time (7 pm eastern time).

Can’t wait to dance with you!

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Program:

The Kingston Jig (taught and called ceilidh style)
Flowers of Edinburgh
Invercauld’s Reel
Strip the Willow (taught and called ceilidh style)
Lady Catherine Bruce’s Reel

Intermission

Blue Bonnets
Gay Gordons (taught and called ceilidh style)
The Saint John River
The Deil Amang the Tailors

Potluck dinner

Auld Lang Syne

Use this link to see the list of dances along with tabs to see cribs, diagrams, and videos when available.

Hogmanay Flyer

A Centenary Celebration of Scottish Country Dancing: Dayton

CINCINNATI BRANCH HOSTS:

A Centenary Celebration of Scottish Country Dancing

Saturday September 30, 2023
Michael Solomon Pavilion
2917 Berkeley Street #3
Dayton Ohio 45409

2-5 pm

Featuring Live Music with Elissa Hock piano and Arthur McNair accordion

Of the band “Highland Square “

Cost $25 ; Light tea provided

Programme:

Waltz to Iowa warm up waltz
EH3 7AF 32 J 3c RSCDS 40
Flowers of Edinburgh 32 R 3c RSCDS 1
Neidpath Castle 32 S 3c set RSCDS 22
None So Pretty 40 R 3c RSCDS 19
Anna Holden’s Strathspey 32 S 2c RSCDS 42
Farewell to Balfour Road 32 J 5c set RSCDS 52
General Stewarts Reel 32 R 3 c RSCDS 10

Intermission

Old Man of Storr 32 R 3 c RSCDS for children
The Queen City Salute 32 M RSCDS 37
Ladies Fancy 32 J 2c RSCDS 13
Scott Meikle 32R 4 c RSCDS 46
Gothenburgs Welcome 32 J 3 C RSCDS 37
Rakes of Glasgow 32 S 2 c RSCDS 11
Alan J Smith 32 J 3 c RSCDS 45

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Fun was had by all!

Dayton Centennary dance
Circle four hands round

2023 winter/spring balls

Two balls are coming up in the next few months: January 21 in Lexington (information below) and March 25 in Pittsburgh.

Lexington Scottish Country Dance Society

Saturday January 21, 2023

Midway Presbyterian Church, 103 N. Turner Street, Midway, KY.

2 pm

Cost $8

Recorded Music

The Happy Meeting

Rakes of Glasgow

Catch the Wind

Jubilee Jig

Delvine Side

The New River Reel

The Cranberry Tart

Seann Triubhas Willican

** Irish Rover (**For those who know the dance)

Greenbelt Jig

Monymusk

Reel of the Royal Scots