Dance: Cold and Raw

24-bar Jig
2 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:
(unknown) (1718)
Formations:
Back to Back (BKTOBK)
Clap (CLAP)
Hands round - 4 (HR;4P;)
Steps:
Skip-Change
Slip-Step
Published in:
Book 5 [12] *
Pocket: Books 4,5,6 [24]
Recommended Music:
Cold and Raw ((traditional))
Up in the Morning Early (Niel Gow)
Recordings (3): Show tunes
Book 5. Music for Twelve Traditional Dances (Kenny Thomson and the Wardlaw Scottish Dance Band), track 7 [pace 34.5]
Tae Gar Ye Loup (Drummond Cook and his Scottish Dance Band), track 6 [pace 34.5]
One More Couple Please (The Scotsmen), track 6

Crib

1-81C+2C dance BtoB ; turn RH
9-161M dances RSh round 2W to 2M place while 2M, passing behind 1M, dances RSh round 1W to 1M’s place ; all clap and circle4 to the left
17-242W dances RSh round 2M (in 1M’s place) to 1W place while 1W passing in front of 2W, dances RSh round 1M to 2W’s place ; all clap and circle4 to the left
(Note that the two figures are not symmetrical)
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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