The Thurso Wedding
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
The Thurso Wedding A thirty-two bar Reel for two couples in a longwise set, devised by John W Mitchell, published in Whetherly Book 7.1- 4 First and second couples face up and down, the ladies join both hands; all slip across to the opposite side of the set with four slip steps, ladies passing in front of their partners and set.
5- 8 Repeat slipping back to own side of the set and set.
9-16 Right hands across in a wheel and back with the left hand.
17-22 First couple lead down the middle for three steps and back for three steps.
23-24 First couple cast off into second place, second couple step up.
25-32 Rights and lefts.
Repeat from second place.
Recommended tune: The Thurso Wedding
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 7, by John W Mitchell, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell; instructions reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-ND 4.0).
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