Bo'ness Dance

05/11/2026

Last Sunday we had our Halloween Ceilidh in the wonderful venue of the Culross Stables Community Hub.🎃

We had a great turn out, actually, much better, than we expected with 27 participants. We got a Spanish-Scottish Family from Stirling and their visiting friends, oh my word they know how to party!😀
We had a new family from Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh in beautiful costumes.😊

Beside some of our regulars we also welcomed a family from Inverkeithing with their visiting grandmother from Finland.😊

For me this is what Scottish dancing is about. A hall full with so many different people, from different places and countries are able to be connected through Scottish Dancing.❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

As we had quite a few kids, we adapted some of our dances with not changing partners (for everybody) and I was so pleased that everybody had a great time.

We did lots of dances, many of which we made extra spooky with arms raised in the air, doing scary sounds and of course Phill made sure we got so many great tunes.🎶🎃

He even played some Spanish tunes for our Spanish visitors.❤️

The list of dances you can find below:
https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/76462/

We tried a new dance (for us) The Bonfire Waltz as Bonfire Night is coming up and it was great.

I felt very lucky to be able to dance with many of you throughout the afternoon and I couldn’t be more thankful that some of you kindly took photos and shared them with me.✨❤️

Our next Ceilidh will be on the 24th November in Bo’ness 7-10pm, which will be our St Andrew’s Night. Autumn Ceilidh in Bo'ness - November

Please save the date for our Christmas Ceilidh on the 20th December 2-5pm in Bo’ness, you can already book your tickets on the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sunday-afternoon-christmas-ceilidh-in-boness-tickets-2004403595110?aff=oddtdtcreator

We hope you all had a great time and hope to see you again soon!

Zsofi😊

02/11/2026

Ceilidhs are the best fun! ❤️ Lovely article, have a read and hope to see you at our Autumn Ceilidh in Bo'ness - November to celebrate St Andrew’s Night with us!😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Young dancers at the Ivy House in south-east London join the older crowd amid a renewed appetite for authentic, community events

02/11/2026

What a Tuesday we had! 24 dancers on the dance floor.⭐️⭐️
We welcomed Alin and Emily to their first class and the girls nailed it completely!😊
It was lovely to see Helen back for her second class. And what shall I say the highlight for me was to see Libby back!😊

We did some repetition of the steps and the figures we learnt in the past few weeks to finish the Introduction Course we started 4 weeks ago.

We started with the Circle of Cheer.
As we had Halloween this week🎃, I couldn’t resist taking the dance Hallowe’en out, which has Poussette. It went so well to all of you and not even that you mastered the figure, we danced it in 3 couple sets with the progression and it went superb!❤️

I think that is the hardest in Scottish Dancing, to find your way to the bottom of the set and it takes a little time till you get your head around it.✨

You know probably by now how excited I get, when we have the magic ✨ 24 dancers ✨ on the dance floor! We finally could do a square set dance, The Barmkin is really one of my favourites and it went so so well to all of you.❤️

Some of you gave up your break and we did All for Janny, which is a lovely strathspey with some Petronella turns and with a “crossing Banana” figure.❤️

I loved this dance dancing with you; it gave me the goosebumps when we all lined up together.

Phill played wonderful tunes all night long!🎶

We finished the evening with Whalebones, which on paper looks so nice, but somehow it was not exactly how I imagined it. Thanks for trying it with me.😉

The list of dances you can find the link bellow:
https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/76244/

Last week we did one more dancing in Culross, but that is for another post!😊

Hope to see you all on Tuesday.😘

Zsofi

27/10/2026

I just saw this! If you are able to support the Bo’ness Fair this should be a great thing to do!😊

St Andrew’s Day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate Scotland’s national day than a night of ceilidh dancing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Dust off the glad rags, grab your favourite people (and a pair of comfy shoes), and join us in Bo’ness Town Hall on Saturday, 28th November for the Bo’ness Fair Ceilidh!

With music from The Brave Ceilidh Band, a welcome drink to toast the occasion, and a delicious pie at half-time, it’s shaping up to be a braw night oot.

🎟️ Tickets are £20, secure yours before they’re gone: https://tikt.link/bfdceilidh26
🕢 Doors open at 7:30 PM
📍 Bo’ness Town Hall

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Kilts optional, high spirits essential!

25/10/2026

Last Tuesday we did our first Autumn Ceilidh in Bo’ness and we did it in a Halloween theme. 🎃We had an amazing turn out 41 of us were there and had a lovely time. It was so nice to welcome 2 girls from Brazil and Kate’s sister-in-law from Mauritius joined us as well.❤️

We welcomed back so many of you after a long time, it was wonderful to see Joyce, Princess Margaret and Jutta & George too.❤️

Diane was wearing a beautiful outfit throughout the whole night, she was the Queen of the Night for sure! ❤️ We got two ghosts as well, but they had to get rid of their costume quite quickly as it was way too hot for dancing.😀🎃

Phill played so many spooky tunes. It was great to see your excitement.🎶

As it was school holidays we had a few kids on the dance floor too, they did absolutely amazing the dancing together.❤️

We did the below dances:
https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/75974/

The Tassie Devil was a real highlight but we all had lots of fun all the way through.😊

The buffet was again so lovely, spooky marshmallows, eyeball cupcakes and some beautiful homemade brownies by John just a few to mention.❤️

Thank you all of you who came along, brought a plate to share, special thanks for those of you who volunteered to bring plates, napkins, and cutlery, helped in the set up and the cleaning at the end.❤️❤️

We had lots of fun and can’t wait to see you all back on Tuesday. Our next Tuesday evening Ceilidh will be on the 24th November in Bo’ness which will be our St Andrew’s Night celebration. Please mark your interest, share our event with your friends and we hope to see many of you there Autumn Ceilidh in Bo'ness - November😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Zsofi