20th Orkney Folk Festival

"A ceilidh dance band from the Perthshire area which now features the Westray One Step among their varied dance sets, courtesy of a chance encounter with an Orcadian hockey team in Dundee!!

They will be playing at dances over the weekend, as well as taking part in the Open Workshops on Saturday."

A SCOTTISH DAUGHTER- IN- LAW

"Tartan kilts swirled, sporrans bobbed up and down as we danced and swung to the lively tunes of the Gallivanters Ceilidh Band .  This exuberant Scottish Ceilidh was held in the Caledonian Hall of the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh to celebrate the wedding of our second son Toby and his lovely Scottish lass Penny.   The Scottish  Ceilidh dances are wild and exuberant and seem to involve hundreds of people swinging and swirling for ever and ever.  We danced the Gay Gordons, Dashing White Sergeant, Flying Scotsman, Strips of Willow, Irish and Scottish 8 hand reels and a Canadian Barn Dance which Pennyís Mum remembered dancing during her summer holidays on one Scotlandís western isles to the gramophone of Dougie the Boatman!  We had the best fun and partied into the early hours."

The Heart of Scotland Festival

"The latest addition to the programme at this year's festival is the inclusion of the world's first MURDER MYSTERY CEILIDH DANCE! This sinister development has been instigated by the festival committee, and that fine Perthshire-based ceilidh band THE GALLIVANTERS have taken up the challenge of devising and hosting the event. For the first time ever, the opening bars of The Gay Gordons will be preceded by a grisly murder which the audience will be invited to solve before the end of Auld Lang Syne.
The Murder Mystery Ceilidh Dance will take place on the Saturday following the concert at Aberfeldy Town Hall by Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham (now there's a couple of prime suspects)"

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