Dance Bridge of Nairn 794
Strathspey · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
- Devised by
- Robert Bremner (1757)
- Intensity
- 800 822 822 844 = 50% (1 turn), 38% (whole dance)
- Formations
- Cast behind own lines and lead up the middle (CBL&LeadUp)
- Turn Corners and Partner (CPCP)
- Advance and Retire (ADVRET;2S;)
- Steps
- Strathspey setting, Strathspey travel
- Published in
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- Book 13 - Victory Book [11]
- Scottish Country Dances Books 13 to 18 (Combined A5 edition) [12]
- Pocket: Books 13,14,15 [11]
- 99 More Scottish Country Dances [7]
- A Second Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 9 [23] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [25] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [20] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [19] (diagram only)
- Recommended Music
- Extra info
- Nairn is a town on ...
Nairn is a town on the Moray Firth, north-east of Inverness. It is a tourist resort famous for its golf courses, an annual jazz festival, and one of the largest Highland games in the North. Charlie Chaplin used to go there for his annual holidays.
King James VI. of Scotland (James I. of England) visited Nairn in 1589 and used to boast afterwards that there was a town in his kingdom with a high street so long that the people at one end couldn't understand the language of those at the other. At the time Nairn consisted of two separate settlements, one Gaelic-speaking and one Scots-speaking.
Name | Artist | Album | Media | Trk | Type | Time | Pace | Clip | Tunes |
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Bridge of Nairn | Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band | Book 13/14. Eight Scottish Country Dances | LP+ | 4 | S32 8 | 8:20 | 62.5 |
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The Old Man will Never Die/Lady Ann Hope/The Miller o' Hirn/The Glenlivet |
Bridge of Nairn | Don Bartlett and the Scotians | In Triumph | CD+ | 7 | S32 8 | 8:19 | 62.4 | The Old Man will Never Die/John Brown or the Faithful Friend/Tune your Fiddles/Miss Douglas | |
Bridge of Nairn | Muriel A Johnstone | Preliminary Test | MC | 7 | S32 4 | 0:00 | 0.0 | ||
Bridge of Nairn | Neil Barron and his Scottish Dance Band | Book 13. Music for 12 Scottish Country Dances | CD | 11 | S32 8 | 8:20 | 62.5 |
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The Old Man will Never Die/Mrs Ramsay/The Jacobite/Mrs Laird of Strathmartin |
Bridge of Nairn | Jimmy Shand and his Band | King of the Button Box | CD | 11 | S32 4 | 3:41 | 55.2 | The Old Man will Never Die/Tom's Highland Fling/Cameron's Got his Wife Again | |
Bridge of Nairn | Jimmy Shand and his Band | Whistling Rufus | CD | 17 | S32 4 | 3:41 | 55.2 | The Old Man will Never Die/Tom's Highland Fling/Cameron's Got his Wife Again |
Bridge of Nairn 3/4L · S32
- 1–
- 1c cast off 2 places, lead up to the top ; cross over and cast off one place (2c up), meet NHJ facing 2W
- 9–
- 1c set to 2W, turn inwards, set to 3M ; veer left and set to 3W, turn inwards, set to 2M, finish facing 1cnrs (1M pulls back Rsh).
- 17–
- 1c turn corner, P ; corner, P finishing (2,1x,3)
- 25–
- All A&R ; 1c turn BH 1½ times (2,1,3)
Bridge of Nairn 3/4L · S32
- 1-8
- 1s cast below 3s & lead up between to top, cross & cast to meet partner facing 2L
- 9-16
- 1s set to 2L, 3M, 3L then 2M & turn to face 1st corners
- 17-24
- 1s turn 1st corner RH, partner LH, 2nd corner RH & partner LH ending in 2nd place opposite sides
- 25-32
- 2s+1s+3s Adv+Ret & 1s turn with 2H 1.1/2 times

Martina Mueller-Franz
Added on: Feb. 12, 2020, 10:29 a.m.
Quality: Demonstration quality

Martina Mueller-Franz
Added on: Feb. 3, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Quality: Demonstration quality

Martina Mueller-Franz
Added on: Feb. 3, 2012, 7:15 p.m.
Quality: Demonstration quality
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