Dance: Saint Andrew's Fair

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

Devised by:

Roy Goldring (1980)

Formations:

Chase (CHASE)
Hands round - 6 - and back (HR;6P;BACK;)
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
Pas-de-Basque
Slip-Step
Note: This list may be incomplete.

Published in:

Five Scottish Country Dances 1982 [2] *
Pocket: Books 30,Children,5-for-1982,31 [20]
Thirty Popular Scottish Country Dances [20]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [150]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [132]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [179]

Recommended Music:

Jockey's Dance ((traditional))

Recordings (8): Show tunes

Highlander Music Scottish Dances Vol 3 (David Cunningham and his Scottish Dance Band), track 10 [pace 33.5]
Eight Scottish Country Dances (The Ron Gonnella Quartet), track 5 [pace 33.4]
A Fife Fairing (The Ron Gonnella Quartet), track 6 [pace 33.4]
Music for Fifteen Dances (The Ron Gonnella Quartet), track 15 [pace 33.4]
Bow and Curtsy (Jim Dawson and his Scottish Country Dance Band), track 6 [pace 32.4]
On Stage With..., Volume 3 (The Thistle Band), track 1
Just What the Doctor Ordered (Sandy Nixon and his Scottish Dance Band), track 15
Artistic License (McDuff's Ceilidh Band), track 2 [pace 35.9]

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