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Jolly Stewart's No-Setting Jig

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Jolly Stewart's No-Setting Jig 8x32 jig for 3 couples in a 4 couple set, Curt Beadell, 2010

1- 4 1s cross by right and cast to 2nd (2s step up on 3,4)
5-12 Right shoulder reel of 3 on sides (M up and L down)
13-16 1s turn by left 1¾ times to finish facing 1st corners
17-32 Corner chain:
 17-18 1C change places RH with 1st corners
 19-20 1st corners turn LH in centre
 21-22 and return to places, giving RH to 1C
 23-24 1C turn LH in centre to face 2nd corners
 25-26 1C change places RH with 2nd corners
 27-28 2nd corners turn LH in centre
 29-30 and return to places, giving RH to 1C
 31-32 1C turn LH to own side

Repeat from 2nd position

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Curt Beadell, 2026)


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Dance Information

Bill Stewart is a long-time dancer and a piper for the Jacksonville Pipes and Drums who sometimes teaches dance class. He loves to move and dislikes setting steps.

Recommended Music: Drunken Sailor/Catch the Wind CD.


Published in Eight Dances For Anne Hueser, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Curt Beadell.

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