Dance: The Happy Meeting

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

Devised by:

(unknown)

Formations:

Figure of Eight (FIG8;1C;)
Advance and Retire (ADVRET;2S;)
Note: This list may be incomplete.
Note: Due to limitations in the underlying data, the relative order of formations in this list may be different from the order of formations in the actual dance.

Steps:

Skip-Change
Note: This list may be incomplete.

Featured in:

Valentine's Day
Santa Fe
July 14

Published in:

Book 29 [9] *
Collins Pocket Reference [126]
Pocket: Books 28,4-for-1978,29 [25]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [63]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [60]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [77]

Recommended Music:

Greenholm ((traditional))

Recordings (11): Show tunes

Book 29. Music for Ten Traditional Dances (Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band), track 9 [pace 33.8]  
Scottish Dance Favourites Volume 2 (Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band), track 5 [pace 33.8]  
Highlander Music Old Masters Volume 2 (The Tain Band), track 12 [pace 35.6]
Swing Your Partners (The Tain Band), track 4 [pace 35.6]
The Bobby Brown Collection (Bobby Brown and The Scottish Accent), track 3 [pace 33.1]  
The Island Fling (Bobby Brown and The Scottish Accent), track 3 [pace 33.1]  
Teachers Certificate Examination (Muriel A Johnstone), track 13
Bow and Curtsy (Jim Dawson and his Scottish Country Dance Band), track 1 [pace 33.2]
The Happy Meeting (The Glendaruel Scottish Dance Band), track 12
Strictly Scottish Volume Two (Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band), track 2
Scottish Country Dances Vol 3 (The Ian Muir Sound), track 2

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