Please put the date — Saturday 22 November 2025 — in your diary.
Please show this flier to your club members: 2025 Harwell & Abingdon St Andrew’s Ball
The Craigellachie Band will be playing for us in the Old Mill Hall in Grove.
- The catering has been booked.
- The ticket price will be £27 per head (£20 for students and spectators). You can pay online below.
- We will be dancing from 19:00 to 23:00.
- Practice sessions will be held during the afternoons of Sun 16 Nov and Wed 19 Nov.
- Sun 16 Nov – see https://abingdonscottish.wixsite.com/abingdon/events for details.
- Wed 19 Nov, 1400-1630, this is one of our regular tea dance slots (to recorded music) and will cost just £4/head on the door.
At our Wednesday Tea Dance on 19 Nov we will be practicing some of the dances on our Ball programme. Provisionally we will be practicing:
– Harlequin
– S-Locomotion
– Polharrow Burn
– The Glengarry Homestead or Duchess Tree
– Trip to Timber Ridge
– The Robertson Rant
– Flying Spur
– MacDonald of the Isles for 5 couples (Big Mac)
– The Zoologist
– The Reel of the 51st Division
Our full Ball programme and cribs can be seen at https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/57425/ or below
| 1. | Welcome to Ayr | J32 | 3/4L | Henricksen &c.;: RSCDS XLVII |
| 2. | Swiss Lassie | R32 | 3/4L | Betsche: RSCDS XXXIX |
| 3. | The Duchess Tree | S32 | 3/4L | Drewry: Ah’m askin’ (CD booklet) |
| 4. | Harlequin | J40 | 3/4L | Stanaway: Garioch |
| 5. | Polharrow Burn | R32 | 5/5L | Foss: Magazine |
| 6. | The Glengarry Homestead | S32 | 4/4L | Brenchley: Kangaroo Paw |
| 7. | The Pines Of Pitlochry | J48 | 3/4L | Firth: Ah’m askin’ (CD booklet) |
| 8. | The Robertson Rant | S80 | 4S | Winchester: RSCDS XXXIX |
| 9. | Farewell to Balfour Road | J32 | 5/5L | Buxton: RSCDS LII |
| 10. | Trip to Timber Ridge | R32 | 3/4L | Henderson: RSCDS LII |
| Interval; Grand March | ||||
| 11. | The Piper and the Penguin | R88 | 4S | Goldring: RSCDS Scotia |
| 12. | Midsummer Common | S32 | 3/4L | T&L; Ibbotson: RSCDS XLIX |
| 13. | Seton's Ceilidh Band | J64 | 4/4L | Fordyce: RSCDS LIII |
| 14. | The Rutland Reel | R40 | 3/4L | Senior: RSCDS XLVIII |
| 15. | S-Locomotion | S32 | 4/4L | Jones: RSCDS XLI |
| 16. | The Flying Spur | J32 | 3/4L | Drewry: Bon Accord |
| 17. | Mr Iain Stuart Robertson | R32 | 3/4L | de Winton: RSCDS XLII |
| 18. | Five-Couple MacDonald of the Isles (Big Mac) | S32 | 5/5L | Rigby: Nine |
| 19. | The Zoologist | J32 | 3/4L | Brown: RSCDS XLVI |
| 20. | The Reel of the 51st Division | R32 | 3/4L | Atkinson: RSCDS XIII |
Online ball ticket payments via “SumUp”:
QR code (or use this link instead) for a £27 dancer ticket.
PLEASE enter your name(s) and any other requirements (e.g.diet) in the Note field.
QR code (or use this link instead) for a £20 concession (student or spectator) ticket.
PLEASE enter your name(s) and any other requirements (e.g.diet) in the Note field.