Threesome Reel (Atkinson) Video

Video Notes Threesome Reel is an Old Scottish Country Dance, although people were probably dancing threesome reels as early as 1710 or so, no written description of the dance can be found until 1808 when Thomas Wilson published one in London.

In c. 1830 both W. Smyth and the Lowe brothers published a version in Edinburgh, but the dance was already dying by then. This version was published by Atkinson in 1900 and interpreted by the Fletts in 1964.

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