Dance: The Luckenbooth Brooch
32-bar Jig
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4
- Devised by:
- John Bowie Dickson
- Formations:
-
Reel of three - promenade hold (REEL;PRMHLD;R3;)
Set in line in threes (SETLIN;3P;)
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.
- Published in:
-
Glendarroch Scottish Dance Sheets
[28]
*
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7
[96]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6
[92]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8
[115]
- Full description:
- http://www.dancearchives.co.uk/dances/glendarroch/luckenbooth.htm
- Recommended Music:
-
The Burnt Potato
(Colin Boyd)
Mrs Grace Bowie
(Adam Rennie)
The Weaver and His Wife
(Andrew Rankine)
- Recordings (14):
Show tunes
-
Highlander Music Scottish Dances Vol 5
(Iain MacPhail and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 4
[pace 31.4]
After the Chord
(The Craigellachie Band),
track 8
[pace 34.1]
Edinburgh Castle Reel, The and other SCD
(Bobby Frew Four with Ian Powrie),
track 7
[pace 33.2]
Come Scottish Country Dancing with Andrew Rankine
(Andrew Rankine and his Band),
track 10
A Taste of Andrew Rankine
(Andrew Rankine and his Band),
track 8
Bow and Curtsy
(Jim Dawson and his Scottish Country Dance Band),
track 8
[pace 34.1]
Across the Tay
(Ian McCallum and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 9
[pace 32.9]
The Kirrie Lads
(Ian Cruickshanks and his Band),
track 9
Special Requests Volume 3
(The Colin Dewar Quartet),
track 11
[pace 35.2]
Country Dancers Delight
(The Danelaw Country Dance Band),
track 6
Reels and Wheels
(Gordon Shand and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 13
[pace 35.5]
The Luckenbooth Brooch
(Sandy Nixon and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 1
[pace 33.0]
The Breakdown
(L Ramshaw / S W Bentley / M Bentley),
track 9
[pace 34.1]
Caledonian Muse
(Terpsichore),
track 1
[pace 36.0]
Crib
| 1-8 | 1C in promhold (1M on the R) Reel3 with 2C (RSh to 2M) |
| 9-16 | Repeat with 3C, finish in centre, facing M side |
| 17-24 | 2C+3C dance R&L while 1C dance out between 2M+3M positions, divide and cast round to meet in centre, dance out between 2W+3W positions (1M on the L) and cast round them |
| 25-32 | 1M+2C & 1W+3C set twice in lines across; 1C turn 1¾ RH. |
| (On 2nd time through, finish with ¾ turn RH and lead to bottom (3C up)) |
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