MacEwan`s Reel (32 bar jig for four couples)

Music The Drunken Parson (Scottish Country Dance Music,
by Winifred Bird Matthew, p. 9)
Bars Steps

1-4 1st couple cross over, giving right hands, and cast off one place
(2nd couple move up on 3 & 4)

5-8 1st, 2nd and 3rd couples dance six hands half round to the left

9-12 1st and 2nd couples dance half rights and lefts

13-16 2nd couple dance a half figure eight around 3rd couple

17-20 1st, 2nd and 3rd couples turn partners by the left hand once round and ...

21-24 dance six hands half round to the right

25-32 1st and 2nd couples allemande

Repeat, having passed a couple.

 

A tune, called MacEwan's Rant, is used as the music for the St. Andrews Reel.

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