Dance The River Cree 5591

Jig · 32 bars · 2 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 21)

Devised by

Unknown

Intensity

44 88 80 88 = 75% (1 turn), 52% (whole dance)

Formations

Advance and Retire (ADVRET;2S;)
Rights and Lefts - half (R&L;HALF;)
Lead down and up (DWNUP;LEAD;)
Poussette - standard (POUSS;PV;)

Steps

Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change

Published in

Book 8 [5]
Scottish Country Dances Books 7 to 12 (Combined A5 edition) [17]
Pocket: Books 7,8,9 [17]
101 Scottish Country Dances [87]
Fifty Scottish Dances [9]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [612] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [558] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [531] (diagram only)

Online Sources

http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=0850

Recommended Music

Jackson's Bottle of Claret (Traditional)

Extra Info: See here for a historic video including step demonstrations.

See here for a historic video including step demonstrations.

The River Cree

The River Cree rises in the Galloway hills of southwest Scotland and flows for thirty miles through its luxuriant valley before it empties into Wigtown Bay.

At Newton Stewart the river was once crossed by the Black Ford of Cree and is now spanned by a bridge built by John Rennie in 1813. Many of the houses of the town rise from the very banks of the river, giving to this old Scottish town a Venetian atmosphere.

Above Newton Stewart the river passes through the Cruives of Cree, a lovely wooded stretch that inspired Robert Burns on his Galloway tour of 1794.

Here is the glen, and here the bower,
All underneath the birchen shade;
The village-bell has toll’d the hour,
O what can stay my lovely maid?

'Tis not Maria’s whispering call;
'Tis but the balmy breathing gale,
Mixt with some warbler’s dying fall,
The dewy star of eve to hail.

It is Maria’s voice I hear!
So calls the woodlark in the grove
His little faithful mate to cheer;
At once 'tis music – and 'tis love.

And art thou come? and art thou true?
O welcome, dear, to love and me!
And let us all our vows renew,
Along the flowery banks of Cree.

“The Banks of Cree”, now lost, to which the song was originally set by Burns, was written by Lady Elizabeth Cochrane, daughter of Thomas, 8th Earl of Dundonald, and wife of Burns’ friend, Patrick Heron. George Thomson, the editor to whom Burns sent the song, did not care for Lady Elizabeth’s tune and when the song was published in 1798, two years after Burns’ death, it was set instead to “The Flowers of Edinburgh”.

From “Scotland Dances”, by Eugenia (Jeannie) Callander Sharp (Used by permission.)

Name	Artist	Album	Media	Trk	Type	Time	Pace
The River Cree	Jim MacLeod and his Band	Book 8.	LP+	3	J32 8	4:46	35.8
The River Cree	Ron Gonnella & Andrew Rankine	Scottish Dance Masters, The Vol 1	LP	6	J32 8	4:26	33.2
The RIver Cree Jig	Max Houliston and his Scottish Band	Scottish Band Showcase	LP	7	J32 4	0:00	0.0
The River Cree	George B Stirrat	Seven Favourite Dances #4	CD+	4	J32 8	0:00	0.0
The River Cree	Jimmy Blue and his Scottish Band	The Scottish Sounds of Jimmy Blue	LP	7	J32 6	0:00	0.0
The River Cree	Archie Duncan Quintet	Scottish Country Dances	LP	2	J32 8	0:00	0.0
River Cree	Max Houliston and his Scottish Band	Come Home to Scotland	LP	4	J32 4	0:00	0.0
The River Cree	George Stirrat and his Scottish Dance Band	Scottish Accordion Favourites	CD	10	J32 8	4:36	34.5
The River Cree	Simon Howie and his Scottish Dance Band	The Dark Island	CD	4	J32 6	3:24	34.0
Jig 32 bar sequence	Gordon McCullough and his Scottish Dance Band	Scottish Dance Music	LP+	5	J32 8	0:00	0.0
The River Cree	Jim Lindsay and his Band	Book 8. Music for 12 Scottish Country Dances	CD	5	J32 8	4:38	34.8
The River Cree	Jim Cameron and his Scottish Dance Band	Jim Cameron's Scottish Dance Band Vol 3	CD	8	J32 5	2:46	33.2
River Cree	Tim Wright and his Scottish Dance Band	Tim Wright and his Scottish Dance Band	CD	4	J32 6	3:08	31.3
The River Cree	Jim Cameron and his Scottish Dance Band	Kirrie Selection	CD	4	J32 5	2:46	33.2
The River Cree	Archie Duncan Quintet	Let's Go Scottish Country Dancing Vol 2	CD	8	J32 8	4:19	32.4
The River Cree	George B Stirrat	Let's Go Scottish Country Dancing Vol 3	CD	8	J32 8	4:25	33.1

The River Cree 2/4L · J32

1–: 1M+2W change places RH ; 1W+2M repeat (2x,1x)
9–: 2c+1c A&R ; ½ R&L
17–: 1c down the middle and up
25–: 1c+2c Poussette (2,1)

E-cribs

The River Cree 2/4L · J32

1-8: 1M+2L change places RH, 1L+2M change places RH
9-16: 1s+2s advance for 2 steps & retire, dance 1/2 R&L
17-24: 1s lead down the middle & back to top
25-32: 1s+2s dance Poussette. 2 1

MiniCribs

Keith Rose's Diagrams

Name	Date	Owner	Last changed
Windsor CT Year End Party	2019-06-11	Barbra Link	April 30, 2019, 9:54 p.m.
Last Class Christmas Social	2023-12-12	Kathryn Lecocq	Dec. 8, 2023, 7:13 p.m.
RSCDS Book 8 + yellow coatie		Ward Fleri	June 19, 2021, 1:07 a.m.
RSCDS Book 8		Ward Fleri	May 16, 2021, 1:30 a.m.
Linlithgow SCDC 18 October 2019	2019-10-18	John Watkins	Oct. 13, 2019, 2:56 p.m.
Darmstadt_2019_11_11	2019-11-11	OnYourToes Darmstadt	Nov. 10, 2019, 9:30 p.m.
Chemnitz, 24.11.2012, Tanzabend	2012-11-24	Thomas Groß	Nov. 22, 2012, 1:03 a.m.
November 21, 2023	2023-11-21	Sarah Ferguson	Nov. 18, 2023, 6:46 p.m.
Duddingston 10 October 2019	2019-10-11	John Watkins	Oct. 6, 2019, 12:28 a.m.
Linlithgow Theme Night 11 October 2019	2019-10-11	John Watkins	Oct. 6, 2019, 12:23 a.m.
Roosendaal 22.04.23	2023-04-22	Margaret Lambourne	April 4, 2023, 8:47 p.m.
BSCD Dances Taught 2018-2019		Jamie McDougall	Oct. 11, 2018, 12:12 a.m.
4. SCD Weekend Chemnitz: Ball 8.11.2014	2014-11-08	Thomas Groß	Oct. 29, 2014, 11:44 a.m.
Dances for two virtual couples	2020-07-14	Tovar -	March 14, 2023, 2:10 a.m.

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