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:

Pas-de-Basque
Skip-Change
Slip-Step
Note: This list may be incomplete.

Featured in:

J.C. Ball 2009

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 (10): 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]
Take Your Partners For Vol 2 (Luke Brady's Scottish Dance Band), track 14 [pace 35.1]
Bluebonnet Ball 2004 (Chris Peterson & Michael Hudson), track 2 [pace 33.4]

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