Dance: Mrs Stewart's Jig

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

Devised by:

Frans Ligtmans (1986)

Formations:

Grand Chain for 6 (GCHAIN;6P;)
Ladies' Chain (LCHAIN)
Advance and Retire (ADVRET;2S;)
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

Featured in:

Santa Fe
July 14
Unit 2 Prescribed Dances

Published in:

Book 35 Scottish Country Dances [1] *
Pocket: Books 33,34,35 [17]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [116]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [108]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [137]

Full description:

http://members.aol.com/ParadiseMO/HM3goldenoldies.html#stewart

Recommended Music:

Captain Charles Stewart's Jigg (Malcolm MacDonald)

Recordings (13): Show tunes

Book 35. Music for Eight Scottish Country Dances (Jim MacLeod and his Band), track 1 [pace 35.0]
Scottish Dance Favourites Volume 3 (Jim MacLeod and his Band), track 7 [pace 35.0]
Live (John Taylor & Andrew Imbrie), track 5 [pace 36.2]  
Dancing Live (The Muriel Johnstone Trio), track 2 [pace 35.4]  
Memories of Scottish Weekend (Scottish Weekend Ensemble), track 11 [pace 36.0]  
Gang on the Same Gate (Green Ginger), track 9 [pace 35.5]  
Band Boy's Choice (John Renton and his Scottish Dance Band), track 6
Quick Here's Anither Yin (Kenny Thomson and the Wardlaw Scottish Dance Band), track 13 [pace 34.1]  
Medal Tests for Young Dancers (Rutherford, Maureen & Copland, Neil), track 12 [pace 38.0]
Caledonian Muse (Terpsichore), track 4 [pace 36.0]
Book 35. Music for Eight Scottish Country Dances (Neil Copland and his Scottish Dance Band), track 1 [pace 35.9]
Take Your Partners For Vol 1 (Luke Brady's Scottish Dance Band), track 10 [pace 34.6]
2008 Pittsburgh Ball (The Music Makars), track 16 [pace 35.6]

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