Tag: ceilidh
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Our Fourth Annual Michaelmas Dance
There we have it! Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party will be celebrating our Fourth Michaelmas Dance in September. In perhaps another six years, we can claim that it is not just traditional but a tradition. As I am now going to spend the next month trumpeting its delights abroad, I hope my knees improve to such…
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St. Louis in Edinburgh
Traditional Catholic social dancing is a worldwide movement, and we in Scotland hear of exciting lessons at the American “Newman Guide Colleges” and at formal balls in, for example, St. Louis, Missouri. Last May, a visiting American student introduced me over email to the chief promoter of traditional Catholic social dancing in St. Louis, Anna…