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Calendar days may have more than one holiday or special theme day, with associated dances.  Click to view, or see the entire dance database list below.

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Easter

The Easter Egg

Tulip Time

Tulips from Edinburgh

Circus Day

Piccadilly Circus

Crow Appreciation Day

As The Crow Flies

Tartan Day

Makin' The Tartan

Scrabble Day

The XYZZY

April Days

April Antics

Poetry Reading Day

The Poet and His Lass

Beaver Day

The Beavertail Slap

Dolphin Day

Pelorus Jack

John Muir Day

Sierra Trails

Snowman Burning Day

The Snowman

Hunt the Gowk Day

Huntie Gowk

April Recruiting Month

Come Join the Dance

Tax Days

The Exciseman

April Days

April Sky

Beltane Eve

Beltane Fires Flower

Weasel Dancing Day

An Incursion of Weasels

Unicorn Day

The Rampant Unicorn Jig

the Battle of Culloden, 1746

Culloden Moor

St George's Day

St George's Cross

Good Friday

The Hot Cross Bun

Golfer's Day

The Old Course

Family History Day

The Immigrant Lass

Arbor Day and Beltane Season

The Rowan Tree

World Rat Day

The Ratcatcher's Reel

Pet Day

Reel Pets

the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

Of Quaichs and Quakes

Penguin Day

Reel of the Emperor's Egg

THE DANCE DATABASE

Calendar days may have more than one holiday or special theme day, with associated dances.  Click on any date to visit the page of interest.  

Date
Day
Name
Image
Apr 1
Hunt the Gowk Day
Huntie Gowk
Apr 1
April Fool's Day
Poisson D'Avril
Apr 1
April Fool's Day
Strawberry Fool
Apr 2
Weasel Dancing Day
An Incursion of Weasels
Apr 3
Good Friday
The Hot Cross Bun
Apr 3
Tweed Day
Harris Tweed
Apr 3
Pony Express Day
Saddle the Pony
Apr 3
Chocolate Mousse Day
Peter Hastings' Chocolate Mousse
Apr 4
World Rat Day
The Ratcatcher's Reel
Apr 5
Bell Bottoms Day
Blue Bell-Bottoms
Apr 5
Dandelion Day
The Dandelion Picker
Apr 5
Easter
The Easter Egg
Apr 6
Declaration of Scottish Independence
Arbroath Abbey
Apr 6
Tartan Day
Makin' The Tartan
Apr 6
Tartan Day
Tartan Shawl
Apr 6
Tartan Day
The Waggle of the Kilt
Apr 7
Beaver Day
The Beavertail Slap
Apr 8
April Recruiting Month
Come Join the Dance
Apr 9
Unicorn Day
The Rampant Unicorn Jig
Apr 10
Golfer's Day
The Old Course
Apr 11
Pet Day
Reel Pets
Apr 11
Pet Day
Animal Magic
Apr 12
Tulip Time
Tulips from Edinburgh
Apr 13
Scrabble Day
The Wordsmiths
Apr 13
Scrabble Day
The XYZZY
Apr 14
Physics Day
Quark's Jig
Apr 14
Dolphin Day
Opo
Apr 14
Dolphin Day
Pelorus Jack
Apr 15
Titanic Remembrance Day
The Titanic
Apr 15
Tax Days
The Exciseman
Apr 16
the Battle of Culloden, 1746
Culloden Moor
Apr 17
Family History Day
The Immigrant Lass
Apr 18
Velociraptor Awareness Day
Raptors' Rapture
Apr 18
the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Of Quaichs and Quakes
Apr 19
Circus Day
Piccadilly Circus
Apr 20
April Days
April Antics
Apr 21
John Muir Day
Sierra Trails
Apr 22
April Days
April Sky
Apr 23
St George's Day
St George's Cross
Apr 24
Arbor Day and Beltane Season
The Rowan Tree
Apr 25
Penguin Day
The Piper and the Penguin
Apr 25
Marmalade Day
The Marmalade Maker
Apr 25
Marmalade Day
Marmalade Sandwich
Apr 25
Penguin Day
Reel of the Emperor's Egg
Apr 25
DNA day
Rosalind's Fancy
Apr 26
Pretzel Day
Rye Twist
Apr 27
Crow Appreciation Day
As The Crow Flies
Apr 28
Poetry Reading Day
The Poet and His Lass
Apr 28
Snowman Burning Day
The Snowman
Apr 29
International Dance Day
The Dancing Master
Apr 30
Beltane Eve
Beltane Fires Flower
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The majority of dance descriptions referenced on this site have been taken from the

 

Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary or the

Scottish Country Dancing Database 

 

Snapshots of dance descriptions are provided as an overview only.  As updates may have occurred, please click the dance description to be forwarded to a printable dance description or one of the official reference sources.

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