Ceilidh

A many enjoyable night for a teacher retiring after 38 years’ service on same school. Extremely moving tributes to the woman make use of over 1000 young ones over this time.

The dancing ended up being terrific – usually managed to get on end of a move prior to the songs, and a little pause ahead of the after that. Right here they actually do the Cumberland Square Eight.

We did a few mixers – happy 7s as well as the Blaydon Races – and additionally they blended with gusto. Andrew got through all of the passages of Blaydon Races, with Greg’s beautiful balance! & Most regarding the passages of Paddy McGinty’s Goat within the Belfast Duck!

The band sounded really punchy, and now we completed using Drops of Brandy, which generally seems to get more impossibly quickly every time we play it …

We visited Suffolk to play for a Nordic Walking group’s get-together in a community centre outside Bury. These were certainly fit, and danced energetically till the end, though perhaps not a-pole around the corner!

Here’s Andrew playing the box for example of listening tunes between dances.

Greg called one of his true favourites, Margaret’s Waltz, and unusually decided to demonstrate the one half women’ string with Hazel. Right here it really is, immortalised on video clip:

And Mike, calmly observing the proceedings:

It had been an unusually good acoustic, so we had a very good time playing tunes between dances: Josephina, our new old timey ready, Bill’s fantasy … and David and Andrew had a beneficial blast from the Northumbrian pipelines within the period: old favourites through the repertoire, and newer tunes by Chris Ormston (Low lighting of Shields) and Anthony Robb (Ian Dickson).

Really, it's officially the twentieth 12 months we’ve played this gig! Thanks a lot again to Neil for organising it, and also to all just who came and danced so vigorously!

The evening moved along with its usual move, therefore we played our usual Scottish dances, like the Dashing White Sergeant and Eightsome Reel. In The Past the research groups familiar with create activities from Lads and Lassies, however going back couple of years, therefore Andrew sang Burns’ Corn Rigs.

And then we marketed a CD!

The haggis, neeps and tatties had been as tasty as previously, and an innovation in 2010 had been deep-fried Mars Bars for pudding. Not at all bad, really …

Here’s a movie of our good friend John Barr the piper, addressing the haggis. Look Out For the hilarious three-knife trick …

It was a most enjoyable and uncommon ceildh. The groom ended up being British, the bride Bulgarian: an attractive couple, to who we wish every joy. They launched the evening with a really elegant waltz, although we played Snow on the Benn in addition to line Waltz.

We played a beneficial number of dances, including bits of our Scottish ready, eliciting a spirited Dashing White Sergeant. It absolutely was a knowledge, though, is informed because of the bride that a few of the visitors desired to do a little Bulgarian dances. Right here we are seeing in admiration!

Slightly later on one of several guests made a decision to show others a Bulgarian dance from scrape, although we played our French/Galician set, which appeared to fit the dance well enough. Here they're practising the dance.