The Early Baby Boomers

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1- 8 All set and link; all turn partner 1½ RH (1s moving down slightly) into promenade hold, 1s facing 3s
9-16 Promenade RSh reel of 3 across (1s RSh to 3s to start). Bar 16: 1s cross LH ready for...
17-20 1M+3s dance RH across while 1L+2s dance LH across, 1s pass RSh into...
21-22 1M+2s dance LH across while 1L+3s dance RH across
23-24 1s dance up to 1st place while 2s and 3s continue ½ turn. All face partner. 123
25-32 All dance Triangular Knot:
 25-28 All turn partner ½ RH into Allemande hold facing out, dance 1 place anticlockwise
 29-32 All turn Ladies into centre LH, all turn ¾ LH to new place (1 place anticlockwise round). 231

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)

1- 8 All 3 couples set and link, finish man facing out, lady facing in.
All 3 couples turn one and half times using right hand, first couple moving slightly down the dance; all 3 couples finish in promenade hold, first couple facing third couple.
9-16 Reels of three across the dance, begin with first and third couples passing right shoulder. On bar 16 first man crosses his partner in front of him using left hand ready for:-
17-20 Hands across: 1st man dancing right hands across with 3rd couple while 1st lady dances left hands across with 2nd couple.
21-22 1st couple, lady crossing in front of partner, change to hands across halfway, 1st man left hand with 2nd couple and 1st lady right hand with 3rd couple.
23-24 1st couple dance up each side to original place and face partner, WHILE 2nd and 3rd couples continue to turn to original place and face partner.
32. Three couples dance the knot.
28. Half turn partner right hand into Allemande hold, facing out. Dance one place anticlockwise.
29-32 All turn ladies into centre left hand. All turn left hand to new place. Finish 231

Repeat twice more.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Ian Shepherd, 2025)

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Recommended music: Miss Corbett's Strathspey (Robert Mackintosh).

In many studies and official statistics, the overall baby boomer generation includes people born between 1946 and 1964, a period during which births increased markedly in several industrialised countries.

Within this broader generation, researchers commonly divide the group into two sections. The earlier section, sometimes called the leading-edge or early baby boomers, includes those born roughly between 1946 and 1955. Individuals in this cohort grew up during the years of post-war economic expansion and reached adulthood during the 1960s and early 1970s. Their formative years coincided with major social and political developments, including the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War in the United States.

The early baby boomers represent slightly more than half of the entire baby boomer population in the United States. Members of this group were the first to experience the demographic effects of the large post-war birth surge that followed the economic recovery after the Great Depression and the end of the war. The rapid increase in births during these years produced one of the largest generational cohorts of the twentieth century.

Later members of the baby boomer generation, sometimes described as late or trailing-edge boomers, were born from the mid-1950s until 1964. Because they grew up during different economic and political conditions, the two halves of the generation are sometimes distinguished when analysing social or demographic trends.

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