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
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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]  [has sample]
Scottish Dance Favourites Volume 2 (Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band), track 5 [pace 33.8]  [has sample]
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]  [has sample]
The Island Fling (Bobby Brown and The Scottish Accent), track 3 [pace 33.1]  [has sample]
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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Crib

1-81M+2W dance ¾ LSh round P, pass down/up RSh, cast R round standing M/W to places
9-161W+2M repeat mirrorwise (other shoulders)
17-241C slip down the middle | set (1M starts L foot) ; slip to top | cast off (2C up)
25-322C+1C A&R (all clap) ; turn P RH
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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