Quote Originally Posted by Schiehallion View Post
I love this dance and in fact all the Bon Accord dances. I shall be dancing all this next week and will be doing some of these.

Question Chas in respect of the name. Your club, is it a Scottish Country dance club or a Reelers club who do things somewhat dangerously for SCD if they are both aware. eg in Reel of the 51st. ???
Hi Barry,

Quite definitely Scottish Country Dancing. The name and the club comes from a time when the RSCDS was being very protective about its name and reputation. The RSCDS wanted to keep everything called SCD to itself (and, of course, charge an affiliation fee). It started on the other side of the pond where a club which had some RSCDS members and called itself "an RSCDS Club". The RSCDS, of course, took offence as they hadn't paid a fee. There was much tutting and tapping of toes and writing of letters with much underlining and it all got out of hand.

So, round the world, clubs like mine called themselves something like, but not quite Scottish Country Dancing.

Regards

Chas