Tour Scotland Travel Video 2019 New Year's Day Gay Gordons Dance Pitlochry Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel Blog of New Year's Day 2019 video of tourists and local Scots dancing the Gay Gordons Dance at the Street Ceilidh on ancestry visit to Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The Gay Gordons is a popular dance at cèilidhs and other kinds of informal and social dance in Scotland. It is an " old time " dance, of a type popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in which every couple dances the same steps, usually in a circle. The name alludes to a Scottish regiment, the Gordon Highlanders. The new year’s day street party, usually draws around 5,000 people into town.

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