Dance held at the Commodore Hotel on Friday 26th April 2024
Dance Report
Honorary President Neil MacLeod bade a warm welcome to everyone and introduced the
Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band, comprising Ewan Galloway on accordion and Iain
Graham on percussion. The band had been popular with dancers at previous ceilidh dances
and another excellent rendition of the evenings dance programme was anticipated
There were 48 members plus 12 non-members in attendance, making a total of 60 attendees.
The programme began with the ‘Eva Three Step’ and progressed through the dance list to
the ever popular ‘Swedish Masquerade’ and the delightful ‘Waltz of Bells’.
The first half of the evening concluded for a break for tea, coffee and biscuits. The regular
raffle was drawn raising the sum of £159.00. Thanks are extended to everyone who donated
prizes and to ticket buyers.
After the welcome break the set programme continued with the ‘Canadian Barn Dance’
concluding with ‘The Boston Two Step’ and ‘Southern Rose Waltz’ before the traditional
singing of ‘Auld Lang Syne’
The Honorary President drew the evening to a close by thanking the Band and everyone for
attending another entertaining night. Thanks were also extended to committee members for
their essential tasks at the door selling dance and raffle tickets and providing teas and
coffees at the interval.
The Honorary President also acknowledged the table of family and friends who were
enjoying the wide variety of dances whilst celebrating the birthday of Sue who was
congratulated by everyone with a ‘Happy Birthday’ sing-a-long.
At the end of the evening a healthy profit of £253.90 was realised after deductions for venue
hire, ceilidh band and associated running costs.
The next dance will again take place in the Commodore Hotel on Friday 31st May 2024 at
8.00pm with music by the Steven Carcary Scottish Dance Band.
Did you know?
Steven Mithen is an archaeologist whose research focuses on the Neanderthals, our
prehistoric cousins, as opposed to Homo Sapiens' our direct ancestors. But he believes the
importance of dance was widespread and probably practiced by early humans too as far
back as 1.5 million years ago. And, as it is on modern dance floors, their prehistoric moves
had a lot to do with hooking up. Although, it is difficult to conceive of what would pass as
sartorial elegance in our terpsichorean forebears.
Bob McCafferty
