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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Those Eastern Scots Are An Especially Happy Lot, Aye?

Somewhere in Eastern Europe, here you see some Scots and not-so-Scots enjoying one of my favourite Scottish dances, the "Gay Gordons."

Here's another version of it from a wedding:

Some of you know it better as the "Carolina Twirl" after it got to the states and got changed a bit:

Naturally, I'm hoping to dance this at the Highland Ball.

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