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Country Dancing 2025

We’ve got a new FSC Country Dancing Manual for 2025! This features 20 dances with improved calling instructions plus sheet music for the tunes for musicians as well as some more context and beautiful illustrations. There’s also updated recordings of the tunes, see below, and demonstration videos of the dances. We’ve also created a Musicians Manual which contains arranged and transcribed sheet music for standard, Bb and bass instruments.  And we’ve got some thoughts on which are the best instruments to play in the field.

Country Dancing has long been an important part of FSC, with papers from the 1960s showing that daily dancing and live bands used to be commonplace. The purpose of creating the new manual is to bring fun and energy to FSC, and make it easier for more people to dance, call, and play live music better. It’s been tested in the field, and the hope is that children can learn how fun it is to do Country Dancing in time with the music, and that we get more callers, more bands, and more people who know the dances by heart.

Would you like to order a hard copy of the beautiful new FSC Country Dancing Manual or Musicians’ Manual? Click here for the order form before 15th Nov 2025.

Link here to the previous page including the 2005 manual and the 2005 and 1975 recordings. 

Useful Country Dancing Links

FSC Country Dancing Manual

Musicians’ Manual (including Bb, bass, harmony)

Advice on buying instruments for Country Dancing

Country Dancing Tunes:

All 20 tunes in one file

  1. Lady Bandinscoth’s Reel (for ‘Serpent’)
  2. Pat-a-cake Polka (for ‘Heel & Toe’)
  3. Alunelul
  4. Shropshire Lass (for ‘Flying Scotsman’)
  5. Off She Goes (for ‘Circassian Circle’)
  6. I Want To Be Near You
  7. Scotland the Brave (for ‘Gay Gordons’)
  8. The Seven Stars (for ‘Riverside Jig’)
  9. Oh Honey Oh
  10. Morgan Rattler (for ‘Bridge of Athlone’)
  11. Bonny Kate (for ‘OXO Reel’)
  12. Monaghan Jig (for ‘Cumberland Square Eight’)
  13. La Russe (for ‘Old Swan Gallop’)
  14. Dashing White Sergeant
  15. Old Joe Clark (for ‘Lucky Seven’)
  16. Hole in the Wall
  17. Enrico (for ‘North Eggardon Reel’)
  18. Cuckold Come Out of the Amrey (for ‘Ducking for Oysters’)
  19. Random Jig (for ‘Waves of Tory Island’)
  20. Black Nag

Dance pages including how-to video where available:

  1. Serpent
  2. Heel & Toe
  3. Alunelul
  4. Flying Scotsman
  5. Circassian Circle
  6. I Want To Be Near You
  7. Gay Gordons
  8. Riverside Jig
  9. Oh Honey Oh
  10. Bridge of Athlone
  11. OXO Reel
  12. Cumberland Square Eight
  13. Old Swan Gallop
  14. Dashing White Sergeant
  15. Lucky Seven
  16. Hole in the Wall
  17. North Eggardon Reel
  18. Ducking for Oysters
  19. Waves of Tory Island
  20. Black Nag