Dance: The Sailor

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

Devised by:

(unknown)

Formations:

Reel of three - across (REEL;ACROSS;R3;)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)
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:

2009 Christmas program

Published in:

Book 24 [4] *
Pocket: Books 5-for-1965,23,24 [21]
Collins Pocket Reference [168]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [142]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [132]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [168]

Recommended Music:

The Davy Hornpipe ((traditional))

Recordings (15): Show tunes

Selected Scottish Country Dances (Jim MacLeod and his Band), track 3  
Strictly Scottish Volume One (Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band), track 4
Music for Scottish Country Dancing (BBC Band (Archie Duncan et al)), track 8 [pace 34.6]
Heather and Yon (Berkeley Scottish Players), track 8 [pace 33.8]
Scottish Dance Time Vol 5 (Stan Hamilton and his Flying Scotsmen), track 1 [pace 32.5]  
Welcome to the London Highland Club (Frank Reid and his Band), track 6 [pace 34.0]
Scotch Mist (Rob Gordon and his Band), track 4
Across the Tay (Ian McCallum and his Scottish Dance Band), track 4 [pace 33.9]
Book 24, Twelve Scottish Country Dances (Muriel Johnstone's Band), track 4 [pace 35.6]  
Memories of Scottish Weekend (Scottish Weekend Ensemble), track 9 [pace 35.9]  
The Road to Forfar (The Deirdre Adamson Quartet), track 6 [pace 34.8]
A Dancing Master Remembered (Jennifer Wilson), track 5 [pace 35.5]
Scottish Country Dances Vol 3 (The Ian Muir Sound), track 9
2008 Pittsburgh Ball (The Music Makars), track 4 [pace 36.2]
Live at Opotiki, Music for a Whale of a Time (Peter Elmes and his Band), track 9 [pace 36.2]

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