Autumn term 2025

The term will start on 10th September and end on 10th December, party night with music by Ian Slater.

Spring term 2026

The term will start on 7th January and end on 13th May 2026, party night with music by Robert Whitehead.

Live music

Ian Slater will play on two mid-term Wednesdays, 22nd October 2025 and 4th March 2026 as well as for our party night on 10 December, which is a faith supper event. Visitors are welcome.

Cribs and videos

The cribs and videos of the dances planned for a Wednesday evening at Saltire are now a regular weekly feature on our website under Class Nights. The link will be available each week sometime between the Sunday and Tuesday.

Clicking on the link will bring up a list of the dances on a separate tab. Clicking on a dance will bring up details of the dance, including the crib, the diagram and a selection of videos.

This is the link for the list on 29th October 2025.

One of the dances on the list is Ramadan-ce. The Ramadan-ce title, is a clever word play around the two words ‘Ramadan’ and ‘dance’. Note that this dance comes from John Drewry’s Turkish Set which contains 20 dances, though most are not on programmes today. This wonderful dance is the exception. Marian Anderson’s music includes tunes from Schubert and Mozart. Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and indulging in anything that is in excess or ill-natured; from dawn until dusk. Thanks to the Scottish Country Dance Dictionary and Mini-Crib.

Some dancers prefer not to look at the dances beforehand and, since all dances are walked through on a Wednesday evening, looking at them in advance is entirely optional.