Even More Guests At Mairi's Wedding
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Even More Guests At Mairi's Wedding 40-bar reel for seven couples in a seven-couple longwise set. Julia Smith1-4 1st, 3rd and 5th couples, giving right hands, turn once round and cast off one place. 2nd, 4th and 6th couples step up on bars 3-4.
5-8 1st, 3rd and 5th couples, giving left hands, turn to face first corners.
9-12 1st, 3rd and 5th couples dance a half diagonal reel of four with first corners, passing by the right to begin. They finish right shoulder to right shoulder with partners, facing second corners.
13-16 1st, 3rd and 5th couples dance a half diagonal reel of four with second corners, passing by the right to begin. They finish right shoulder to right shoulder with partners, facing dancers in partners' first corner positions.
17-20 1st, 3rd and 5th couples dance a half diagonal reel of four with those dancers, passing by the right to begin. They finish right shoulder to right shoulder with partners, facing dancers in partners' second corner positions.
21-24 1st, 3rd and 5th couples dance a half diagonal reel of four with those dancers, passing by the right to begin, finishing on sidelines. 7th, 6th, 4th and 2nd couples finish on opposite sides.
25-32 7th couple (in first place) and 2nd couple (in seventh place) change places by chasing outside the set clockwise (6 bars), then set facing partner (2 bars).
At the same time, 6th and 4th couples dance half rights and left (4 bars). (NOTE: the left hand change takes place inside the set without a polite turn.) Then, giving right hands, they turn partners once round to new places.
33-36 1st couple dance down to seventh place while 3rd and 5th couples dance in and cast up two places. 7th couple step up on bars 35-36.
37-40 All seven couples dance back to back with partners.
Finish in the order 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1.
Repeat from new positions.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Julia Smith)
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Even More Guests At Mairi's Wedding - Scottish Country Dancing Instruction VideoDance Information
This dance was devised by Julia Smith and based on Mairi's Wedding by James B. Cosh and The Guests At Mairi's Wedding by George Gaze.Suggested music: Include Mairi's Wedding.
(Dance information by the deviser, Julia Smith)
Published in Hunter Valley Dances Book 2, reproduced here with the kind permission of Allyn Douglass, Secretary RSCDS Hunter Valley Branch.