Falls Of Clyde
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
FALLS OF CLYDE (M-(S64+R64)) Round The Room Mary Shoolbraid Brandon Honolulu BookRound the room dance, 3 facing 3
Strathspey
1- 8 All set Highland Schottische, dance DoSiDo with opposite dancer
9-16 Middle dancers (passing LSh) dance ½ diagonal reel of 4 with opposite person on their right, pass LSh in middle to dance ½ diagonal reel of 4 with opposite person on their left. All finish on opposite sides.
17-24 Middle dancers dance RH across with partner on their right and opposite person. Repeat dancing LH across with partner on left and opposite person
25-32 All circle 6H round ½ way to left (to original places), all advance passing other dancer RSh to meet next trio
33-64 Repeat bars 1-32 with next trio
Reel
1-64 Repeat above but set twice in place of Highland Schottische and end 6H round and back
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
Dance Information
The recommended tunes are "Malcolm Coupe" and "The Honolulu Run" by Murray Shoolbraid, Mary Brandon's brother.(Dance information copyright, all rights reserved, reproduced here with the kind permission of Norm McCallum, 2018)
The Falls of Clyde is the collective name given to four waterfalls on the River Clyde near New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, however this dance was named after the Clyde built sailing ship The Falls of Clyde.
The dance was devised by Mary Brandon while she was living in Honolulu with her husband and Society Scroll awardee David Brandon. The Falls of Clyde sailing ship was then moored in Honolulu as part of the Hawaii Maritime Museum.
During Scotland's peak as a maritime nation, shipping companies named their ships after geographical features, so you had the Ben line, the Falls line, the Glen line etc.
The Falls of Clyde ship was built on the Clyde in 1878 and after 20 years sailing from Britain to Australia it was sold and became the first ship of the Matson Line sailing between Hawaii and California.
A few years ago when I was in Honolulu I went aboard the Falls of Clyde when it was a tourist attraction. Unfortunately, due to poor up-keep the masts have been removed and she is no longer open to the public.
Now Falls Of Clyde International (FOCI) want to save her from being deliberately scuttled, by the Honolulu Harbours Department and rebuild her so she can, once again, sail the oceans of the world.
The Falls Of Foyers - Information Video
Falls Of Clyde Honolulu c. 2002
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