Fingal Bay

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Fingal Bay 8x32 Reel, 3 couples in a 4 couple set, Neville Pope

1-8 1st couple change place RH; change places on the side with 2nd couple, giving LH (no polite turns); 2nd, 1st and 3rd couples cross, giving RH and set.
9-16 All 3 couples dance diagonal rights and lefts as in Irish Rover, dancing couple giving RH to first corner position to begin.
17-18 1st lady and 2nd and 3rd men set advancing to take hands in triangular formation.
19-20 1st lady and 2nd and 3rd men release hands and set retiring WHILE 1st man and 2nd and 3rd ladies set advancing and take hands in triangular formation.
21-22 1st man and 2nd and 3rd ladies release hands and set retiring WHILE 1st lady and 2nd and 3rd men repeat bars 17-18.
23-24 1st lady and 2nd and 3rd men release hands, but stay in the centre and set WHILE 1st man and 2nd and 3rd ladies set advancing, briefly touching hands in triangular formation.
All 3 couples finish bar 24, facing the top of the dance in promenade hold.
25-32 3rd, 1st and 2nd couples dance the allemande.

Repeat having passed a couple.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Neville Pope, October 2009)

Dance Information

Fingal Bay is the home of our friends Rod and Linda, who were very hospitable while I was attending a teaching weekend in the Hunter Valley.

Recommended Music: Any good Reel.

Recommended Recording: Track 9 (Set of Reels) from All Set by David Cunningham: Captain Patterson of Melby - Willafjord - St. Ninians Isle - Cran Hill - Robin's Reel - Maggie's Reel -Cumbria - The Wee Bus.

(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Neville Pope, 2010)

Published in Sturt Desert Pea Book 2010, copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Neville Pope, 2024.

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