Dance Myrtle And Joy 4877

Jig · 32 bars · 6 couples · Longwise - 6 (Progression: 235164)

Devised by

Priscilla Burrage (1992)

Intensity

888888 880880 844844 804840 = 70% (1 turn), 71% (whole dance)

Formations

Reel of three - with corners (REEL;CRNRS;DOUBLE;R3;)
Reel of three - promenade hold (REEL;PRMHLD;R3;)
Lead/Dance down, cross and cast up (DWN;CROSS;UP)
Hands across - 4 (HX;4P;)
Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.

Steps

Skip-Change

Published in

Kitchen Capers [3]

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Extra Info: “In my salad days, I lived on Beacon Hill in Boston, MA at the corner of Myrtle and Joy streets.”

“In my salad days, I lived on Beacon Hill in Boston, MA at the corner of Myrtle and Joy streets.”

“Name” column: normal = designated recording, greyed-out = designated but not official lead tune, italic = possible match found in DB (watch number of repeats!)

Name	Artist	Album	Media	Trk	Type	Time	Pace
Myrtle and Joy	The White Cockade Scottish Country Dance Band	Tartan Stew	MC	4	J32 6	0:00	0.0
Jigs	Alasdair Fraser	Portrait of a Scottish Fiddler	CD	6	J32 4	0:00	0.0
Links with St Petersburg	Reel of Seven	Gotta Dance! … to Reel of Seven	CD	7	J32 8	4:43	35.4
Links with St Petersburg	Kenny Thomson and the Wardlaw Scottish Dance Band	Book 46	CD	10	J32 8	4:40	35.0
Links with St Petersburg	Donald J Bartlett	The Well Tuned Piano	?	10	J32 8	4:54	36.8
Links with St Petersburg	Luke Brady's Scottish Dance Band	Take Your Partners For … Vol. 5	CD	14	J32 8	4:41	35.1
Miss McPherson Grant's Jig	Peter White and his Scottish Dance Band	Garple Burn and 7 other SCD by Hugh Foss	LP	5	J32 8	4:35	34.4
The Nurseryman	Chris Duncan & Catherine Strutt	Carriages at Midnight	CD	2	J32 8	4:54	36.8
The Nurseryman	James Coutts and his Scottish Dance Band	The Joy of Sets	CD+	5	J32 8	4:32	34.0
The Nurseryman	Colin Dewar and his Scottish Dance Band	Special Requests Volume 7	CD	2	J32 8	4:45	35.6
The Nurseryman	Fiddlers Three Plus Two	Book 37. Frae a' the Airts, Vol 2	LP+	7	J32 8	4:36	34.5
The Nurseryman	Fiddlers Three Plus Two	Scottish Reflections	CD+	2	J32 8	4:36	34.5
The Nurseryman	David Hall and his Scottish Dance Band	Sound of Feolin	CD	5	J32 8	4:40	35.0
The Nurseryman	Iain MacPhail and his Scottish Dance Band	Book 37. Frae a' the Airts, Vol 2	CD	7	J32 8	4:40	35.0
The Nurseryman	The Deirdre Adamson Quartet	A Birl Roond Forfar	CD	2	J32 8	4:42	35.2
The Nurseryman	Alasdair Fraser & Muriel Johnstone	Just As It Was 2	CD	3	J32 8	5:01	37.6

Myrtle And Joy 6/6L · J32

1–: 1c+2c+3c & 4c+5c+6c Reels3 on the sides, 1c & 4c crossing down to begin, and ending facing down in promhold between 2c (5c) in 1st (4th) place
9–: 1c (promhold) Rsh Reel3 with 2c while 4c does likewise with 5c
17–: 1c/4c (promhold) lead down between 3c/6c (2c+5c up) , cross and cast up to 2pl/5pl ; 2c+1c & 3c+5c & 4c+6c RHA (2,1,3,5,4,6) flowing into
25–: 1c+3c & 5c+4c LHA ; 1c cast off two (to 4pl, 3c+5c up) while{4} 4c cast off one to 6pl (6c up) and set (to 2,3,5,1,6,4 ; i.e. the progression for 1c is 1–4–6–5–3–2–1)

E-cribs

SCDDB Contributed Cribs & Diagrams

Name	Type	Date	Owner	Last changed
Tartan Stew	Class	2023-12-07	Klaus Mettler	Dec. 7, 2023, 12:35 p.m.
Budapest Local Club 10.05.2022	Unknown	2022-05-10	Zoltán Gräff	May 10, 2022, 9:21 a.m.
Darmstadt_2015_11_16	Unknown	2015-11-16	OnYourToes Darmstadt	Nov. 15, 2015, 10:13 p.m.
SF Hildesheim 2-6-7 etc. Paare	Informational		Cord Walter	May 21, 2023, 10:04 p.m.

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Dance Myrtle And Joy 4877

Myrtle And Joy 6/6L · J32

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