Dashing White Sergeant


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Dashing White Sergeant

n
(Dancing) a lively Scottish dance for sets of six people
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On stage will be Feis Phaislig pounding out tunes for the Dashing White Sergeant, Strip the Willow and many more of your favourite dances.
You can practise your main ceilidh dances before you go, from the Gay Gordons to the Dashing White Sergeant or Strip the Willow.
As well as The Gay Gordons and The Dashing White Sergeant, revellers can enjoy refreshments, a raffle, a clown and music FROMJACK Delaney's Ceilidh Band and the Vale of Atholl pipe band.
The senior orchestra will then play Viva La Vida by British band Coldplay and a series of traditional Ceilidh scores including The Dark Island, The Dashing White Sergeant, My Love She's But A Lassie Yet, Mrs McLeod of Raasay and the De'il Amang The Tailors.
Being half Scottish, I can just about manage a Dashing White Sergeant or Gay Gordon, but they wanted us to do something called the Reel of the 51st which is the most complicated reel ever devised.
A WOMAN who broke her arm after she slipped on a dance floor while taking part in the Dashing White Sergeant at a farmer's ball has lost a pounds 10,000 damages claim.
A woman who broke her arm after she slipped on a dance floor while taking part in the Dashing White Sergeant at a farmers' ball yesterday lost a pounds 10,000 damages claim.
Some of the more popular dances which we learn include the Petronella, Flowers of Edinburgh and the Dashing White Sergeant. Our members range in age from 12 years to 80-plus and from beginners to advanced dancers.
He blames a vigorous dashing white sergeant for an injury to his shoulder.
But favourite-backers had more luck in the Dashing White Sergeant Stakes as the Tim Easterby-trained Pasithea (5-1) scored by two lengths under Ted Durcan.