Scottish Country Dancing



For non traditional kilts & more!
http://www.sportkilt.com/

If you are in MO and interested in SCD, please go to our troupe homepage at http://floweroscotlanddancetroupe.yolasite.com/   tell them that the Adams sent you:)
In memory of our dear sweet Charity Mae. Dancing the Flowers O Scotland dance; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XP2wVt8GSg




Finally video of some of us dancing! Were hoping to have more soon! Check it out!      http://youtu.be/UHIEoVsb0-I
Next Dance demonstration will be in Warrensburg Mo in April...See ya there!

2013 is off to a great start with our dancing! We danced at St Charles 2 weeks ago, and today we had the opportunity to dance in Koshkonog. Great group of people out there! Today for the audience we danced,
Flowers O Scotland
Threes a Charm
Dominoes 5
Pleasures of Lorraine
Anna Wedding Cake   Was that all? Pics coming soon!

OUR FIRST DANCE DEMO OF THE YEAR; was at the Lebanon Retirement Home. Only 10 of us were able to attend (last minute sickness and caucus work) but it was a lot of fun and we look forward to dancing our ghillies off at every opportunity this year!
This years dances that we are doing/learning are as follows;
1. Flowers O Scotland(know it)
2. Filoli Gardens(know it)
3. Welcome to the Dance(know it)
4. Music Machars(know it and am horrible at it:)
5. Main Medley(Love it!)
6. Mari's Wedding(kids know it:)
7. Annas Wedding Cake(know it)
8. Petronella (ugg!I will never be good at it!)
9. John Mc Alpin(learning)
10. Montreal Rendezvous(know it)
11. Best Set in the Hall(know it pretty well...)
12. Flowers of Edinburgh(learning)
13. Celtic Reel(dont know it!)
14. Pleasures of Lorraine(know it)
15. Catch as catch can(know it)
16. St Bernards Waltz(know it)
17. 3s a Charm (charming!)
18. Dominoes 5(know it)
19. Earl of Northhampton(dont know it)
20. The Bees of Magginackater(never want to learn it! View some folks doing it on YouTube and you'll know why!!!)

There is Irish step dancing, Scottish Highland dancing and there is Scottish Country Dancing. We do Scottish Country Dancing....

HAPPY ST. ANDREWS DAY!!! NOVEMBER 30! THE CELEBRATION OF CHRISTIANITY COMING TO SCOTLAND! FISH SOUP, MUTTON, SPICED FRUIT AND RICE??? UMM...LETS SEE....GRILLED SALMON, BEEF STIRFRY AND POTATOES WITH SCONES FOR DESSERT! YEAH! HAPPY ST ANDREWS DAY TO ALL OF YE SCOTS!
Reformation Faire, Peoria Ill.

                                       

                              Creideamh

(pronounced 'kray-jif'), Gaelic for 'Faith'

We recently went to the Reformation Fair!!! It was so much fun!!! There were kilts everywhere!!! We also did a little dance demo out in the parking lot! We hadn't brought our music but there was a talented bagpiper there who played for us! I loved all the outfits I saw there that I thought I would share some pictures, enjoy!




Buffalo and Springfield will be the next demos! We hope to get some video this time!

We are gearing up for another dance demo on the 30th! We so love the dancing but it is a challenge to learn new dances! Mental blocks abound! I'm really excited as one of our dance teachers, Mrs. Purdom: has a book of Scottish dances for little children! Our littles love to dance and we are all looking forward to them doing this! It is a family tradition now and we are excited for our youngest children to participate in their heritage in this way! Thanks Mr&Mrs Purdom!!!

Mither and me bonny bairns:) Well 2 of them!

Here is a link to the SCD named "Dominoes Five" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SE2oSfBCWw This isnt us, but it is the dance!!

We do SCD because our heritage is very important to us. We just happen to be fortunate enough to love our heritage and the many aspects of it! We look forward to incorporating our SCD into our schooling next year! Our theme for next year is 'The Scottish Covenanters. My dear friend loaned me her tapes from Vision Forum on them. It also happens to be that next year at the CHEF conference, their theme is the Scottish Covenanters! So I will have a lot of good excuses to do more geneology this year under the guise of school! 

Sam the 'Great Scot!"

Abby & Susan-Montauk

Some of the Clan:) Clan Campbell that is!

 

Having class tonight!
Mr Purdom has been down for quite a while but he will be here tonight! Since he still can't really dance around much, I told him perhaps he should bring a hot shot to keep us in line or going the direction we need to be!! Either way we are glad to have him back finally! Were REALLY looking forward to him getting back into his ghillies! He is 'The Grand Ghillie Guy' after all!


Scottish Country Dancing 

 We are gearing up for our next SCD demo this weekend! The 4 balmoral hats are finished, the sporrans are repaired, shirts ironed and kilt pins in place! At the last minute we realized we 'lost'  Ella's scottish dress and shift so mom whipped one out last night with Charitys help! Thanks Charity!

  So where could the dress have gone??? Machaira thinks we accidentally packed it up with the Civil War Reenacting things...quite possible! We are gearing up for that as well!

  The CHEF Conference, as well as many reenactments are coming up. So we will no sooner hang up our ghillies (scottish leather dance shoe) and fall in with the troops there! My Singer will certainly be singing this month!

http://www.thesalemnewsonline.com/news/local_news/article_697116ac-822b-11e0-b716-001a4bcf6878.html Check out the newspaper clip on the Montauk event!

Wow! What a day! We did our SCD demo at Montauk State Park today! 700 folk/students from local towns and schools and homeschool families! We were certainly tired after such a long day but it was fun to meet some new folks and catch up on old friends! We're off to do it again tomorrow!

Our dance troupe at the St. Charles Tartan Days

The girls :)