Undemanding
- Broken Sixpence - longways, see below
- Mouth of the Valleys - circle (mixer), 5-6 couples, see below (Sunshower/Lindsay …)
- Drops of Brandy - longways - slip-jig (or horn) Mark & Holly - The Peacock … / … /Drops of Brandy
- Heartbreaker - square - see below
- Stoke Golding - longways
- Thread the Needle - longways, jig, see below (*Woodford, Calliope)
- Champenoise - circle (mixer), 16-bar jig
- Easy Peasy - Contra, see below
- Bouquet Waltz - American square, see below (*Door)
- Country Bumpkin - longways, 4 or 5 couples, see below (*Larry …)
Eclectic, circa 1½ hr per session (if accompanyment lasts c. 8 min).
Each session commences sedately and ends energetically/raucously.
- Broken Sixpence - reel: 39s: Sam Bartlett - Rumblestrip; 36s: Sam Bartlett - *Mary Devlin’s; 35s: Countercurrent - Sunshower/Lindsay …; 34s: Sharon Shannon - Woodchoppers; 33s: Altan - *The Triple T; 32s: Airdance - *Cloud Nine/Broken Heart/….
- Stoke Golding - slip jig: 51s: Sean Softley - Open Slip Jigs; 49s: Trinculo - Any Jig Will Do/Tall for a Night; 48s: Natalie MacMaster - *Patricia Kelso’s; 46s: Fiddlers Dram - Peel the Tatties/The Pig in the Kitchen/The Barony Jig, Noreia - The Butterfly. Hornpipe: 30s: ‘WttD’, CD 1, - 06 Stoke Golding (Keel Row/Twin Katy's … etc.) slow it by 10%.
- The Heartbreaker - reel: 33s: Banter (EFDSS) - *Corn Rigs/Seneca Square Dance, Johnny Goes to France; 32s: Andrew McNamara - Humours of Tulla/… ; 37s: Mrs Mills - Five Foot Two → 36s: French Charleston Orch. - Ain't She Sweet.
- Cotton Eye Joe: Geslison & Groberg, Rednex - C.E.J. (if suspended, wooden floor).
- Country Bumpkin - reel: 37s: Diatonics (EFDSS) - Speed the Plough/Staten Island, The String Sisters - *The Crow’s Visit; 35s: Fiddlers 3 - Billy Thom’s/Rannie…/…, Natalie MacMaster - Stoney Lake Reels; 34s: Dominique Dupuis - *Reels des Naufragés, Flook - *Larry Out the Bin/Elzic’s Farewell; 33s: Contrasaurus (EFDSS) - *Tipsy Parson/The Breakdown; 32s jig: Steamchicken - Nobber’s New Jigs.
- Thread the Needle - reel/jig: reel, 34s: Whapweasel - Crisps; 33s: Altan - *The Triple T; 32s: Old School Band - Shearer’s Gem/Whittle Springs; 31s: Kevin Burke & Cal Scott - *The Green Fields of Woodford/Seanamhac Tube….
- The Rout (Alternative version) (American Square): 33s: South Carolina String Band - Cripple Creek/Joe Clarke/… ; 32s: Contrasaurus (EFDSS) - Up Jumped the Devil/Marmaduke’s Hornpipe, Steamchicken - *Old Joe Clarke.
Break
- Mouth of the Valleys - 40s: Natalie MacMaster - Barndances; 35s: Countercurrent - *Sunshower/Lindsay… ; 34s: The Brock McGuire Band - *The Moving Cloud, 34-32s: Solas - *Sproggies; 33s: The Gothard Sisters - *The Bandit; 32s: Airdance - *Fred Bartell/Jigjazz; 35s jig: Kathleen & Jim Fownes - *The Old Favorite/The !Orphan
- Foula Reel - jig: 37s: Spælimenninir - Da Shaalds o Foula; 34s: The Kilfenora Ceili Band - Jig It/Patsy Geary’s/…/…; 32s: ‘WttD’, CD1 - 17 The Falconers - Foula Reel, ; 31s: ‘WttD’, CD 1 - 07 The Ranchers - Jigs (Lady Mary Douglas/Jump at the Sun/There Came a Young Man).
- Nottingham Swing - 16-bar hornpipe: 26s (32-bar): Steamchicken - *… … Devil's Dead/In Party Mood; 25s: Martin Simpson - *The Keel Row, Bellowhead - *Kafoozalum/Priest’s …; 23s: Steamchicken - Gobby’s Xmas … .
- Champenoise: 33s - 30s: Die Irrlichte, Duivelspack, Ensemble Tournevire - Chapelloise/Marmotte.
- Petronella - 33s: Rodney and Randy Miller
- Bouquet Waltz (American Square): - 35s: Penk, Curley - Merriweather/Sally; 40s (40 bars): David Holt & Josh Goforth - *Billy Wilson; 23s (24 bars): Uncle Earl - Backstep Cindy.
- Suicide Square - double-jig: 34s: Contranella - Birds …/Sticks … ; 32s: John Whelan - Dr O'Neills/Killavel; 31s: The Scottish Fiddle Orch. - *Jake’s Jig/Well for Water, John Whelan - *Humours Of Glendart/Leitrim …/… , 422 - *Joe Fosters; 30s: The Gothard Sisters - Midsummer Jigs, Peter Miln - Athol Highlanders; 28s: Banter - **Jump at the Sun.
Break
- T.A.G. - jig: 35s: Kathleen & Jim Fownes - *The Old Favorite/The Orphan; 31s: Kevin Burke & Cal Scott - *The Green Fields of Woodford/Seanamhac Tube … .
- Dip ‘n’ Dive (American Square), (c.36 or 56-bar!): 16 bars in 20s: Mick O’Brien & C O’R - *Rolling in the Ryegrass set; 16 bars in 17.5s: Corrina R. Logston - Highlanders’ Farewell; 16 bars in 17s: Ron Block - *Devil In The Strawstack; 20 bars in 22s: Dirk Powell - Sally Anne.
- The Willow Tree - 48-bar double-jig: 54s: Damien O'Kane - Morgan Rattler; 47s: Mark, Holly, Bruce - Morgan Rattler/Zakynthos Jig; 46s: Spiers & Jon Boden - …/Morgan Rattler.
- Zig Zag - reel: 36s: Jim Hendricks - Ballad of Casey Jones; 35s: We Banjo 3 - Eirogee/… Garfield → Cróga - Road to Errogie, Countercurrent - Sunshower/Lindsay… ; 33s: Brittany & Natalie Haas and Friends - Bill Malley’s/*The E-B-E Reel.
- Georgia Rang-Tang (American Square): (24-bar) 26s: Rattle on the Stovepipe - *Chinquapin Hunting; (16-bar) 17s: Ron Block - Devil in the Strawsack.
- Waves of Tory - 5 x 48-bar double-jig: ‘WttD’, CD1 - 11 WoT (Shandon Bells/Devil in Dublin/Coleraine); 45s: 422 - Zycanthos Jig set.
- Maid of the Mill - reel: 33s: Natalie MacMaster - Three Reels, Retrospectacles - Catharsis/Red Cow → 32s: Nat. Mac. - Catharsis.
- Orcadian Strip the Willow - Slip jig: 46s: Fiddlers Dram - Peel the Tatties/The Pig in the Kitchen/The Barony Jig; 43s: Spinach for Norman - Road to Dublin set (but not Gibraltar); 42s: Alban Fuam - Rocky Road to Dublin; 30s jig: (skip-step) Leahy - Wedding Day.
Contra
- Easy Peasy - 36s: Faux Paws - *Southport; 34s: The Engine Room - *Glory in the Meetinghouse.
- M.A.D. About Dancing (incl. B t W & Petronella): 35s: Countercurrent - *Tunes in Seattle Nat. MacMaster - *Stoney Lake Reels; 34s: Flook - *Larry Get …/Elzic’s …, Toss the Possum & Noah - Apple Blossom; 33s: Liz Carroll & JD or Tangent - *Anne Lacey’s, Pete’s Posse - The Bunny Tree; 32s: VanNorstrand - *South Bay Reel/Unstoppable, Hanneke Cassel - *Dot the Dragon’s Eyes; 31s: Great Bear - *Garbage in A.
- Trip to Lambertville, Expert Bits (incl. B t Wave & Pass the Ocean): 34s: Toss the Possum - *Vladi … (live); 33s: Fiddlestyles → Syncopaths - Spootiskerry/…; 32s: Airdance - *Muddy Roads; 31s: Perpetual e-Motion - Eleanor Rigby.
- Amy Absconds (incl. B t Wave, Pull-by, R O'M).
- Heartbeat, Maxine’s Reasonable Request (both incl. Petronella).
- Mange Tak (incl. Pass the Ocean).
- United We Dance (incl. B t L, R O'M): 36s: The Fretless - *Macleod’s Farewell/Palmer’s Gate; 34s: Mean Lids - Captain Nemo/Vittrad, Gypsy Swing Revue - Puttin' On the Ritz, Retrospectacles - Catharsis/Red Cow → 32s: Nat. Mac. - Catharsis, Dam Beavers - *Dirt, Syncopaths - Spootiskerry/Morning Haggis; 31s: Buddy System - *Ride the Wheel; 30s: Toss the Possum - *Still Grumbling … (live).
- Simplicity Swing: 31s: The Free Raisins - Seanamhac …/Devil in …/… to Erogie; 30s: Green Lads - Road to Errogie.
- Chuck the Budgie: 35s: Perpetual e-Motion - Cluck Old Hen; 33s: The Engine Room - Asheville’s Farewell, Toss the Possum - Elzic’s Farewell; 32s: Great Bear - *The Randomanians, Perpetual e-Motion - *Flying Tent.
Minimal contact eg. no partner-progression; for ‘stars’ use wrist-grip (at chest height).
The New Mrs Arrowsmith: 39s hornpipe: Blazin' Fiddles - President Garfield’s; 16-bar polka in 21s: Nightingale - *Newmarket Polka/Trip to Dingle; 36s: The Old Swan Band - Mrs Ellen O'Dwyer's/Packie Russell’s.
T.A.G. (use wrist-grip): see above.
Virginia Reel (40-bar, non-Strip-t-W. version): Colin Dewar - V. R. Medley.
Four Around Four: 32s: "WttD", CD1, 07 The Ranchers - Jigs; 34s: Celtic Fiddle Festival - Stan Chapman’s/… ; 33s: Mark Arrington - *The Kesh: 30s: Brendan Block - *Kate’s/Mill… .
Thread the Needle: jig, see above.
Boston Tea Party (single Dip 'n' Dive): The Dunne Family - Strike the Gay Harp/Jimmy Ward’s/Doberman’s.
Bridge of Athlone: Cheviot Ranters - The Frost is all Over/Pet of the Pipers/Smash the Windows.
The Heartbreaker (for ‘four ladies Chain’ use wrist-grip): see above.
Bottoms Up (incl. Thread the Needle): Tiger Moth - *Oats and Beans and Barley Grow.
Contras: Oh, Hi Turtle and Coconut Cream (as neither have a ‘Swing neighbor’).
Kids’ Programme: Cumberland Reel, Pat-a-Cake Polka, Farmers Jig, Muffin Man, Bridge of Athlone, Virginia Reel, OXO Reel, Clopton Bridge.
Cumberland Reel
Form: 4, 5, or 6 couple longways set (facing partners).
Music: 32-bar reel or jig.A1: Top two couples right hand star, left hand star back.
A2: 1st couple galop down the centre and back to the top; lead a single cast (boys to the left, girls to the right).
B1: 1st couple make an arch at the bottom, the rest promenade up through the arch to progressed places.
B2: New top couple lead a promenade round to the left (double cast) and back to place, all follow.
Repeat for the remaining couples.
Source: EFDSS Community Dances Manual.
Farmer’s Jig
Form: 4-couple longways set (facing partners).
Music: 32-bar jig. 34s: Oxford Nags (EFDSS) - Perfect Cure, Rig-a-Jig; 33s: Hetty Peglars Tump - Ball Pendean Dance/ … .A1: All four couples face up, hold inside hands and advance 7 steps up the set, turn (towards partner), facing back, return to place… and give two hands to partner.
A2: Couples galop up the set, then galop back to place.
B1: In groups of four, right-hand star; back with the left.
B2: First couple lead a single cast, boys to the left, girls to the right. First couple make a two-handed arch at the bottom, others, holding inside hands, pass under the arch and up the centre.
N.B. All couples remain facing up, ready to restart the dance.
Source: Everybody Dance (EFDSS 1972).
Muffin Man
Form: Circle (girls on boys’ right).
Music: 32-bar polka. 37s: The Old Swan Band - …/Seamo’s Polka; 35s: Cheviot Ranters - Call of the Pipes.A1: All to the centre and back twice.
A2: Face partner, take both hands for four galop steps into the centre and back, repeat.
B1: Promenade partners.
B2: Swing partners. (For a ‘mixer’: boys finish on his partner’s right.)
Repeat - as desired.
Source: Everybody Dance (EFDSS 1972).