Dance: Bonnie Kate of Aberdeen

40-bar Strathspey
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:

Thompson (18C) (1760)

Formations:

Reel of three (Gates of Edinburgh) (REEL;DOUBLE;GE;R3;)
Hands round - 6 (HR;6P;)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)
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:

Strathspey travel

Published in:

Book 17 - Coronation Book [8] *
Pocket: Books 16,17,18 [20]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [17]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [16]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [21]

Recommended Music:

Cropie's Strathspey (Peter Milne)

Recordings (5): Show tunes

Book 17. Music for Twelve Scottish Country Dances (Alastair Wood and his Scottish Dance Band), track 8 [pace 62.3]
Dancing with Jim Johnstone (Jim Johnstone and his Band), track 2
Two More Couples Please (The Scotsmen), track 6
Dance Date No 3 (Jim Cameron's Scottish Dance Band), track 3
Scotland Dances (Bobby MacLeod and his Band), track 13

Crib

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