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NOTE: All 3-couple dances will be performed in 3-couple sets. 2-couple dances will be performed in 4-couple sets.| 1508 or The Complaint of the Black Knight | 32 R 2C | McMarmorhornhalfriecraneberg |
| The Trysting Place | 32 S 2C | RSCDS 35 |
| McClure Family Burns Supper | 32 J 2C | Schneider/New Friends |
| ~~Festival Frolic or Step Dance~~ | ||
| Twiddle in the Middle | 32 R 3C | Oaks of Sherwood |
| Luckenbooth Brooch | 32 J 3C | Glendarroch |
| ~~Festival Frolic or Step Dance~~ | ||
| Summer Wooing | 32 R 3C | RSCDS 38 |
| Linnea's Strathspey | 32 S 3C | Wilson/Dunsmuir |
| Toad of Toad Hall | 32 R 3C | Winter/Dunsmuir |
| The Trysting Place | |
| 32 S | 2C RSCDS 35 |
| 1-8 | 1C and 2C set and link. Repeat to original places. |
| 9-16 | 1M and 2W cross RH, set and repeat to original places while 1W and 2M set and cross RH, and repeat to original places. |
| 17-24 | 1C and 2C dance RH across and LH back, finishing in a line of 4 up and down the middle of the set, women facing down, men facing up, both hands joined with partner. |
| 25-32 | 1C and 2C dance the Highland schottische poussette. |
| PERFORMANCE NOTE: Dance twice through with two 2-couple sets arranged as a 4-couple set (i.e. "ends, ends"). | |
| Festival Frolic | |
| 32 S + 32 R | Friedman-Shedlov |
| Showcase dance for two couples in a diamond formation. Men are on the sides of the diamond with their partners to their right at the top and bottom. | |
| Strathspey: | |
| 1-8 | All dance the PETRONELLA figure to end on the opposite side of the set. |
| 9-12 | All dance RIGHT HANDS ACROSS HALFWAY to original positions and SET. |
| 13-16 | All dance LEFT HANDS ACROSS HALFWAY. Men CAST to the right one quarter of the way around the set, while women continue to TURN LH to end facing partners in a line up and down the set. |
| 17-24 | All SET using Highland Schottische step. |
| 25-32 | All dance a REEL OF FOUR. On bars 6-8 of the reel, women curve round to the right, ending in progressed positions on the sides of the diamond, one place counter-clockwise from where they began the dance. Men finish the reel as usual, ending at the top and bottom of the diamond, one place counter-clockwise from where they began the dance. |
| Reel: | |
| 1-32 | REPEAT bars 1-32 of the strathspey in reel time, but forming a line across the set on bar 16. On bars 17-24 use pas de basque coupe setting step. |
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