EUNSCDS

Summer Dance – 18th May

Publicity-Officer — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:27:14 +0000

The details for the New Scotland Summer Dance are as follows:

The Summer dance will be held at St. Peter’s Church Hall, 14 Lutton Place, Edinburgh on the 18th May from 7:30 – 11:30 pm

Walkthrough
Date: 18th May
Venue: Ochil Room, Pleasance
Time: 1-4pm

Barbeque – 19th May
On Sunday 19th May there will be a Barbecue starting at 1 pm at the Portobello promenade and everyone is invited!

If you would like to join us there will be a group of people taking a bus from the city at 12:21 pm. We will provide grills, bread and sauces. Please, bring any food you would like to grill or snacks/dishes for everyone to share.

Any questions you may have please contact our steward Kieran who is organising the Barbecue.He can be contacted at mcdeltat@rocketmail.com

For everyone who is looking for a place to sleep over, Kieran can put you in contact with people offering to host someone.

Programme for the Summer Dance:

Hooper’s Jig (J8x32) 3C (4C Set) MMM 2

Starlight (R8x32) 3C (4C Set) E Abdill RSCDS Bk 44

The Silver Tassie (S8x32) 3C (4C Set) J Drewry Bon Accord Bk

Crossing the Line 2 (R6x32) 3C Set 32 Bar Reel But Danced Twice J Drewry Bankhead Bk 6

There be Dragons ! (J8x32) 3C (4C Set) J Drewry Greenburn Bk 2

Mrs Milne Of Kinneff (S4x32) Sq.Set A Macpherson RSCDS Leaflet 32

Tambourine Reel (R8x32) 3C (4C Set) L Bowlen East Ivanhoe Bk

Kinfauns Castle (S5x32) 5C Set D Haynes Carnforth Coll 4

Ian Powrie’s Farewell to Auchterarder (J128) Sq.Set B Hamilton

Rest & Be Thankful (R8x32) 3C (4C Set) Grampian Coll

Interval

The Chequered Court (J8x32) 3C (4C Set) D Brown RSCDS Bk 42

Nottingham Lace (R96) Sq.Set J Bradley Nottingham Lace

Pat Morrison’s Delight (S8x32) 2C (4C Set) C Anagnosticas Nutmeg Coll

Fiona’s Party (R5x32) 4C Set M Morgan

Gothenburg’s Welcome(J8x32) 3C (4C Set) B Munro RSCDS Bk 37

ArgyllStrathspey (S8x32) 3C (4C Set) R Goldring RSCDS Bk 35

The Plantation Reel (R5x32) 5C Set T Moretti Pinewoods Coll 2

The Iona Cross (M-(S96+R96)) 6C Sq.Set (5s Face 1s & 6s Face 3s) J Mitchell Whetherly Bk 17

Muirland Willie (J8x32) 3C (4C Set) RSCDS Bk 21

The Irish Rover (R8x32) 3C (4C Set) J Cosh 22 Scds

Extras

Mairi’s Wedding (R8x40) 3C (4C Set) J Cosh 22 Scds

The Bees of Maggieknockater (J4x32) 4C Set J Drewry Canadian Bk

The Wind on Loch Fyne (S3x32) 3C Triangular Set J Dickson Dunedin 1

New Committee

Publicity-Officer — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:51:49 +0000

The AGM on the 7th of March elected the new committee as follows:

President: Daniel
Vice-president: Uli
Secretary: Melanie
Treasurer: Lena
Steward: Kieran
Publicity Officer: Aileen
Ordinaries: Jakki, Roanna, Briony S

We also voted James as the Demonstration Convener, Paul as the Social Secretary and Johann as the Festival Fund Trustee.

More information about the new members can be found here

New Scotland Clothing

Publicity-Officer — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:05:21 +0000

Here is something, I know people have waited for:

The new New Scotland branded Clothing is on the edge. This is the time to show your pride to be a Dancer.
We will have a range of different models and colour available for order in a couple of weeks, maybe already this week on Thursday.

Stay Tuned

Trophies for our team in NewCastle [Videos]

Publicity-Officer — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:59:42 +0000

I am very proud to announce that the New Scotland team was very successful at the Newcastle Festival this year. see here:
The mixed team managed to impress the judge and were awarded the first price in the category Open Mixed and as bonus they also got the MAURICE COOPER TROPHY for the Team with the highest score on the whole day.
The Display team got lots of cheers and only had to surrender to the teams “Alba SCD (Glasgow)” and “North East Under 18s”.

The dancers sincerely thank our musician Luke and our teacher Jimmie.

Videos of our dances are available here:
Braes of Busby
The Royal Yacht Britannia
Display: Sailors
Ladie’s Team: Miss Janet Laing’s Strathpey, Ladies of Dunse

Online membership

Publicity-Officer — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:23:24 +0000

Dear Member,

If you are not a currently matriculated student at Edinburgh University, please read this email carefully, as it contains important information on your membership of New Scotland Country Dance Society.

Due to changes in the society legislation from Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA), we are switching our membership database to an online system. This is a mandatory change for all EUSA societies and will have several advantages, including a standardized membership system across all EUSA societies, the possibility of buying membership and paying for events online and making administrative work considerably easier.

The online database will be based upon the current student records of the University. These records do not include alumni or any society member not affiliated to the University. Therefore these members must make an online EUSA account for us to able to add them to our database.

The DEADLINE to make this online account is midnight, 31 JANUARY 2013. After this date we will manually add all of the members of New Scotland that are on the University records or have a EUSA account to our own database. If your name cannot be found on the online register at that time we will not be able to add you to the New Scotland database and you will have to repay the full membership price to become a member again.

Making an online EUSA account is free. It will take only a few minutes of your time and can easily be done by following these steps:

Go to www.eusa.ed.ac.uk
Click on ‘Log in’, in the top right corner of the page.
Click on ‘Guest Login’, in the middle of the page.
Click on ‘Register a guest account’, in the middle of the page.
Fill in your personal details and click ‘Register’, at the bottom of the page.
Wait for the validation email from EUSA, you are now a member of the EUSA database.

DO NOT add yourself to New Scotland, we will add you ourselves. If you do it yourself you will have to repay the New Scotland membership price.

Please use the same name for your account as you did for your New Scotland membership to avoid confusion.

If you have any questions or encounter any problems while making your account, please do not hesitate to send me an email at asbm6399@gmail.com

Thank you for your patience.

Kind Regards,

Alastair Mackie
NS President

Annual Dance: Details

Publicity-Officer — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:28:39 +0000

Hey Folks,

Let the Dancing Season begin with our fabulous Annual Dance. As always we guarantee lots of

Music played by Alan Ross
Dances as seen below (Dance instructions for the most dances can be found here)
Flying kilts and ball-gowns, see formal dresses
The famous pot luck buffet, for which we invite you to bring something

All the other necessary information are as follows:

Walkthrough
Date: Saturday, 19 January 2013
Time: 1pm to 4pm
Venue: 48a Lower, Pleasance (46 Pleasance)

Dance
Date: Saturday, 19 January 2013
Time: 7:30pm to midnight
Admission: £12 unwaged / £14 waged
Venue: James Gillespie’s School Hall, 57 Lauderdale Street
Band: Alan Ross
Dress code: formal

After-party
Date: Sunday, 20 January 2013
Time: midnight to early morning
Venue: Monkwood Court 8 (just follow us)

If you need floor space to sleep on, please contact Roanna, our
steward, through roanna.mackay@hotmail.co.uk.

Name	Type	Origine
Niel Gow’s Farewell To Whisky	R48	RSCDS Bk 34
The Cranberry Tart	J8x3	Glasspool 7 Year Itch
Oriel Strathspey	S4x32	Simmonds RSCDS Bk 32
Nottingham Lace	R96	Bradley Nottingham Lace
The Border Weavers	S3x3	Gray Tweedsdale Coll 2
The Cooper’s Wife	J8x40	Will Bridge of Earn Coll
1314	M(S64+R64)	Drewry Rondel Bk
Elphinstone Jig	J8x32	Drewry Deeside Bk 2
The Gentleman	S8x32	Huxley RSCDS Bk 35
The Poking Reel	J8x32	Knooihuizen
Sixteensome Reel	R(40+8×48+40)	RSCDS Bk 6
INTERVAL
Cornish 6-Hand Reel	R6x32	Trad.
The Pines of Pitlochtry	J8x48	Firth SCD Archives
The Robertson Rant	S80	Winchester RSCDS Bk 39
The Kelpie of Loch Coruisk	R7x32	Priddey Silver Rose
Follow me Home	J8x32	Briscoe RSCDS Bk 38
Canadine Strathspey	S4x32	Holden Birmingham Diamond Jubilee Bk
Flowers of Edinburgh	R8x32	RSCDS Bk 1
The Dancing Master	J96	Drewry Donside Bk
The Blue Footed Boobies	S4x32	Drewry Bankhead Bk 6
The Goathland Road	R8x32	Barbour Set & Cast Off Vol 2
Purple Heather Jig	J4x40	Dickson Dunedin 5
EXTRAS
Duke of Perth	R8x32	RSCDS Bk 1
Chasing the Wild Goose	J5x32	Brown
S-Locomotion	S4x32	Jones RSCDS Bk 41

Taster class: 17.01, 7pm

Publicity-Officer — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:06:38 +0000

Have you just arrived in Edinburgh and want to experience some traditional Scottish Dancing?
Have you been to a Ceilidh before and enjoyed it?
Do you love dancing and want to try something new?

Come around to our taster class this Thursday and let us show you some Ceilidh and Scottish Country Dancing. And while dancing you will meet a lot of new people.

No special gear or experience needed and the first time is for free.

What: Taster class Ceilidh and Scottish Country Dance
Where: St. Peter’s Church Hall, Lutton Place
When: 17. January 2013, 7-9 pm
Who: Everybody invited

Society Fair

Publicity-Officer — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:11:19 +0000

To all the newcomers and those who did not join us yet,

we will have a stall at the society fair next Sunday 13. January. Come, visit us in the Debating Hall in Teviot Row House from 12:00 to 17:00 and ask anything you want to know about us.

Can’t wait to meet you

SUSCDF – Details

Publicity-Officer — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:28:09 +0000

Hey everybody,

We will participate in SUSCDF next week with a bunch of members. Here are the details:

Dance

Date: 8th December,
Time: starting at 7pm.
Venue: Mark Henderson Hall, Ann Street, Dundee, DD3 7TH.
Band: the one and only David Anderson band.
Ticket prices: £14 full price; £12 concession (bargain!)
NS-Bus Ticket: £14 (please email roanna.mackay@hotmail.co.uk)

Dem Order:
1 Aberdeen
2 Edinburgh
3 Glasgow
4 St Andrews
5 Dundee

Name	Type
C’est l’Amour	(J8x32)
A Trek to Kyrgyzstan	(R8x32)
Dundee Whaler	(S4x32)
The Dancing Bees	(R8x32)
Barbara’s Strathspey	(S8x32)
Culzean Castle	(J4x32)
Reel of the Puffins	(R4x32)
A Trip to Gretna Green	(J8x32)
Highland Heather Honey	(M(S64+R64))
The Flirtation Hornpipe	(R4x32)
The Mandarin Reel	(R8x32)
White Heather Jig	(J4x40)
A Capital Jig	(8×32)
We’ve Nae Electric	(R5x32)
The Falkirk Lass	(S8x32)
Muirland Willie	(J8x32)
Apple Tea	(S3x32)
Mairi’s Wedding	(R8x40)

Christmas-Meal

Publicity-Officer — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:29:19 +0000

Hey you all,

Christmas is a reason to celebrate together with all your friends. For some friends it is a good by until after New Year for others it is even for good.
Thus we decided to have a brand new event this year: the Christmas Meal
Come along on the feastday of St. Nicholas 6. December (19:30) to share an evening of food and dancing.
There will be no class at that night, but you are invited to bring your favorite Christmas dish with you and show (i.e. eat) it to all the others.
Afterwards we will dance (or roll around, because you ate so much) to unconventional dance music. (Guess what)

Hope to see you all there