Scottish Country Dancing is the traditional ballroom dancing of Scotland. The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS), based in Edinburgh, was founded in 1923 to preserve this joyful social dance tradition. Since then Scottish Country Dancing has spread all over the world.

Unlike Highland dances, which are usually solo performances accompanied by bagpipes, Country dances are danced with partners in sets of two or more couples doing an exciting variety of formations. The music, performed live at parties and some classes, is usually provided by a fiddle and piano, or even by a whole band.  Dance tempos vary from lively jigs, hornpipes and reels, to the elegant, slower strathspeys.  (Musical excerpts from The March Hare, © 2001, The Red Thistle Dancers, Inc.; used by permission; for more information go to their website.)

Scottish Combo Dancing Worldwide: The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, e-mail contact is Don MacQueen.
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, San Francisco Branch For classes in the Bay Area, from Mill Valley in the north to Monterey in the south and many cities in between.
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Sacramento Branch  For classes in the Sacramento area.

The four principal dance types are the Highland Fling, Sword Dance, Seann Truibhas, and the Sailor's Hornpipe.

e-mail contact:
Barbara Walsh
wmommybarbara@aol.com

Sanctioned by
NCHDA

NCHDA Committee
President: Paul Cooper
V President: George McCombe
Secretary: Beth McDonald
Treasurer: Rodney Yip

San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers
perform at the Livermore Highland Games
Sunday May 18 at 1:00 P.M.

Fresh from their 2008 Spring Concert Tour, San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers bring 50 Fiddlers to perform on the Scottish Country Dance Stage at the Livermore Highland Games. Show is 1:00 PM. Sunday May 18. Fiddle-centric, celtic musical mayhem, born in Scotland, running around loose. Majestic, somber, joyful melody, dance and song, with fiddlers, piano, guitars, cellos, harp, and more. Performance leader Regan Hemphill, Petaluma fiddler. Featuring Judy Thomson on piano and Isaiah Wisdom on Guitar. Program including duets by Marika & Colin Cotter, Pate & Judy Thomson, song by Avery Risling-Scholl; and showcasing the SFSF teen band FIDDLE FRENZY.