Song of the Week – Road to the Isles
This is another Traditional song from Scotland. It refers to many places found along the way as you travel the road.
This was also one of the first dances I learned in the SCA in Sentinel’s Keep. However, they did it to the tune of Scotland the Brave. I offered to play it once so that folks could dance to the actual song but it turns out that there are four more bars in each verse of Scotland the Brave so the choreographers had added an extra set of spinning and crossing at the end of each verse. I tried to convince them that they could just drop that extra set and everything would work fine but they didn’t get it. I did try to hold a strict rhythm when I recorded this so you can try it yourself if you know the dance.
Road to the Isles by Glen E Hammer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
I’m planning to be at Castle Wars in Meridies next weekend, then I get some time off.
