A Canonbie Ceilidh
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
A CANONBIE CEILIDH (R40) Round the Room Caroline Bradshaw and Ian Brockbank New Scotland 50th Anniversary BookCircle Round the Room, Man has partner on his Right
1- 8 All circle round to Left and back to Right
9-16 All Men dance Fig of 8 round partner and Lady on left (in front of partner to start)
17-24 All Ladies dance Fig of 8 round partner and Man on right (in front of partner to start)
25-32 All join hands, advance and retire; all advance and Ladies swivel and join 2H with partner, Men Retire followed by partner. Men face in, Ladies face out
33-40 Men join hands to form arches and all dance DoSiDo with partners; all Men turn (birl) Lady on Right to end in large circle with new partner on right
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
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Canonbie is a small village in Dumfries and Galloway in south west Scotland, on the A7 road from Carlisle to Edinburgh, on the River Esk.
Canonbie, Scotland
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