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Ceilidh Newsletter of the Orange County Branch of the RSCDS Volume 39, No Orange County Ceilidh Newsletter of the Orange County Branch of the RSCDS Volume 39, No. 5 September/October 2021 Visit our website at www.rscds-oc.org “For naught can cheer the heart sae weel, As can a canty Highland reel” — Robert Fergusson Greetings from the Chair Orange County Classes I hope everyone is having an enjoy- MONDAY able summer and having an opportunity Annex at Tustin Legacy to venture out to restaurants and events, Building E, Room E103 perhaps with a mask on. The Orange County 15445 Lansdowne Rd., Tustin branch is very happy to be holding our three Interm/Adv 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. weekly classes again and attendance has been Bob Harmon: (714) 774-8535 quite good. Bob Harmon was able to arrange WEDNESDAY a new venue for the Monday class (see right), Columbus-Tustin Activity Center so our three active teachers each now have their own class. 17522 Beneta Way, Tustin Our July dance was very well-attended by members from near Beginning 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. and far – we were so happy to see everyone! We had three people Intermediate 8:15-9:30 p.m. from San Diego venture north and several from the far ends of Connie Walker: [email protected] LA County and Ventura County venture south. Walking all the FRIDAY dances worked well for those who could not yet attend a local Columbus-Tustin Activity Center class. We will continue this for our September dance, which will 17522 Beneta Way, Tustin have several fewer dances than usual to allow time for walking. Interm/Adv: 7:15 – 9:30 p.m. Since the Seaside Games in Ventura will not be held this Pat Zschoche: [email protected] year, Orange County will hold a monthly dance on October Note: Classes require enroll- 9th. Also in October will be a Scottish Festival hosted by ment through Tustin Parks and the United Scottish Society at the Great Park in Irvine. Recreation (www.tustinca.org) Planning is underway and they have asked us to provide demonstration and audience participation dancing. The most exciting event in the near future will be the Interbranch Dance on September 25th. Music will be pro- vided by our own local SO-CALedonians Dance Band, who have been practicing regularly through the pandemic and are The Next Big Event now ready to play for our dancing pleasure. We are thrilled 32nd Annual to have a local dance band able to play for us. The program can be found on page 7 and all dances will be walked as Interbranch Dance many times as is needed. I hope to see you all there! September 25, 2021 Classes in other branches are gearing up in the fall, so we are planning to hold our usual Christmas Ball in Tustin Senior Center December and the Burns Supper and Ball together with Live music by the LA in January, barring any unforeseen future shutdowns, so keep your ghillies nearby – dancing has returned! SO-CALedonians Terri Speakman, Chair Calendar of Events (Tentative) Minutes of the COM of August 15, 2021 HERE Meeting Highlights: September 2021 • Vice-Chair’s Report: Any medical claims on our 11 Branch Dance, 7:00 p.m. Tustin Senior Center insturance policy must be filed within 20 days of (recorded music) injury. The policy does not cover dancing in 25 Interbranch Dance, 7:30 p.m., Tustin Senior Center. private homes or COVID-19 (or any other Live music by SO-CALedonians disease). October 2021 • Corresponding Secretary’s Report: Edie 1-3 Tustin Tiller Days with SCD demonstration dancing submitted a short article and a photo of our 9 Branch Beginner Dance, 7:00 p.m. Tustin Senior dancing in Peppertree Park for possible inclusion Center (recorded music) in the next issue of the Scottish County Dancer. 23 United Scottish Society Scotoberfest, Irvine Great • Treasurer’s Report: Current balance in the Park checking account is $9388, the Scholarship Fund November 2021 has $2346. 13 Branch Dance, 7:00 p.m. Tustin Senior Center • Membership: 2021-2022 membership is 32 (recorded music) adults and 31 associate members. December 2021 • It was decided to resume our contributions of 11 Andrew Rankine Memorial Christmas Ball, 7:00 food at monthly dances, with individual portions p.m. Tustin Senior Center, live music by Flindrikin encouraged. THERE • Arrangements for the Interbranch Dance and the 2022 Burns Ball were discussed. ELSEWHERE • We will use the $200 raised from the raffle last October 2021 Christmas to have the SO-CALedonians play at a 29-31 San Francisco Branch Asilomar Workshop and Ball. future branch dance. https://sfasilomardance.wixsite.com/asilomarweek- end. Space still available. The next Committee of Management meeting will February 2022 be held on November 7, 2021. Copies of the full minutes of the meeting are available 18-20 The Aloha Winter Weekend Scottish Country from Recording Secretary Randi Kraemer. Dance workshop, Honolulu, HI. Guest instructor Jeanne Moody, live music by The Humuhumunukunukuāpua’a and Strathspey Society Band. Visit the Workshop 2022 page at RSCDSHawaii.org. Interbranch Miscellany Sale Once again, Anthea Macdonald has taken on the huge task of organizing a miscellany sale for the uncoming Interbranch Dance. You are welcome to contribute items to be sold, Introducing the SO-CALedonians but please only items related to SCD – this This Scottish Country Dance band, led by Martha is not the place to dispose of everything you Matthews and Connie Walker, evolved from Thistle cleaned out of your cupboards during lock- Dubh, which had played for a few dances put on by down. Price your items and bring them to the the SGV Branch pre-pandemic. During lockdown, dance; doors open at 6:30. Everything not sold they practiced online, then in backyards and now are this year will be donated, as the Macdonalds ready to play for our dancing pleasure. The ceilidh have been storing a lot of stuff for years. they hosted on August 14th was well-attended and everyone really enjoyed their music and the dancing. 2 Orange County Ceilidh Orange County Ceilidh 3 Scottish Country Dance from faith through the arrival of the “Scotti” from Ulster to form the Kingdom of Dál Riata around 500 A.D. And, of course, St. Columba and his monks arrived to at Iona (563 A.D.) to establish the most significant ecclesiastical center in Scotland. Raiding Norsemen in the 11th and 12th centuries also left their marks on the It’s said the devil is in the details, but whenever region. Remains of castles and settlements as well as we look at any subject, it is in the details that we place names reflect the Nordic influence of the past discover a whole new world waiting to be revealed. and the lingering effects of the Lordship of the Isles Consider Scottish country dancing. We know what until this ended with Alexander III’s victory at Largs. it is composed of, how each of our dances touches Today, tourism, with the importance of natural other people, and usually is connected to places in environment indicated by 121 Sites of Special Scotland. Let’s explore how the letters of the alpha- Scientific Interest designated within the area, is a bet invoke connections as we attempt to see the strong industry. Additionally, almost 1/3 of the details reveal some interesting aspects of SCD and Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Scotland itself. Unsurprisingly, we’ll start with A. area falls within the local authority’s boundaries. In the broad picture, three kings named Alexander Let‘s not forget the argyle style pattern made reigned early in Scottish history. Alexander I “the so famous by the dressing craze in the 1920s and fierce” ruled 1107-1124 and at the same time was 1930s. This popular pattern of diamonds and loz- brother-in-law, father-in-law, and son-in-law to Henry enges derived from the tartan of Clan Campbell I, King of England. Henry married Alexander’s sister, of Argyll and from the patterned socks worn by and Alexander married Henry’s illegitimate daughter. Scottish Highlanders since at least the 17th century. How’s that for cozy relations between the countries? Research on the Scottish Country Dancing Two generations later, succeeding his brother David, Dictionary (and other sites) yielded four devisors’ Alexander II and Alexander III reigned succes- names starting with A. Two—Jean Attwood and sively. The latter was known as Scotland’s Alexander Ron Arrowsmith—should be known to us, judging the Great, assuming the throne as a boy in 1249. Great from the number of familiar dances attributed to things were yet to come as he succeeded in acquiring each. Almost no biographical information is avail- the Western Isles, defeating Norway in the Battle of able, but we can think about their dances we have Lags in 1263 and maintaining general good fortune for included on previous years’ programs. “The Royal the country. Alexander’s accidental death in 1286 led Deeside Railway” –a 32-bar reel—is the most famil- to the interregnum and competition for the Scottish iar dance by Ron Arrowsmith. This was published throne, while during the Wars of Independence, in RSCDS Book 40, and I remember dancing it the House of Bruce was established in 1306. in my beginner years (2007+). Ron also devised a Narrowing our focus somewhat brings us to dance entitled “The Celtic Cross”. Somewhat dif- Argyll, that region on Scotland’s west coast. This is ferent from the one we know by Derek Haynes, this a major part of the western shoreline, for not only dance is a 32-bar strathspey in a square set.
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