My son Jamie (
Semiomniscient) has placed some photos of our
Scottish and
Vintage dance groups
from this past weekend on his blog. He also has is a short video (page down) of my family doing
Scottish Country Dancing this past weekend with a mixed demo team from Baton Rouge and
New Orleans. This is on
my son's web blog The dancing took place at the
Celtic Nations Heritage Festival in Lake Charles, Louisiana this past Saturday. In the video, I was dancing in street shoes, as I had to participate in the opening ceremonies. Actually, the video is from dancing that was part of the opening ceremonies. They also had Scottish Highland and Irish step dancing as a part of the opening.
The music was live and the band was not playing the usual music that is so often associated with the
Balgeddie Reel, (they used Mairi's Wedding as one of the tunes!).
Some of our dancers have only been dancing for about six months. In fact, one of my partners on the Ninesome Reel (The Bumpkin) has only been dancing since March, she is twelve years old and didn't miss a step.
I think I danced about 5 hours total on Saturday, which included demos both in Scottish and vintage as well as workshops. The Irish Set dancing workshop literally kicked my booty! The last "house around" had my legs ready to collapse! And that was with a Scottish Country demo to follow! We actually had a couple who danced all that and had an Irish Ceili and set dance demo right after the Scottish! Yikes!
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