Comox Valley Scottish Country Dancers

Members Area

Liz Stokes (former teacher of SCD in Port Alberni) passed away May 17th. There will be a Celebration of Life for her on Saturday June 20th at Trinity Church in Port Alberni, at 12 noon. Her husband Tom suggested that if anyone wanted to remember her, donations to any organization dealing with dementia would be welcomed.

Scottish Country Dancing
Scottish Country Dancing is social. Four couples dance together in a 'set', to Scottish reels, jigs, hornpipes and strathspeys. During the course of an evening the sets and partners change, enabling you to meet and dance with many other people.
No special costume is required - you don't need to have a kilt! (You will want to get suitable dancing shoes before too long.)
Who?
We no longer have a separate class for beginners, but if you have a sense of rhythm, know where your left and right hands and feet are, and are interested in learning, please contact us. If there is interest, we will have a couple of introductory sessions near the end of August to give you a head start.
And of course if you have done Scottish Country Dancing before, we would be delighted to have you join us.
Where?

Comox United Church Hall
(Corner of Comox Ave. and Beach Drive in Comox.)

When?
Wednesdays
1:30 to 3:30 pm

Why?

Cost
Fall session: $50
Spring session: $75
Year (paid in the Fall): $125
Students aged under 25: half price.
Drop-in fee for visiting dancers: $5

Instructors

Evelyn Nixon Heather Flint
250-339-3347 250-338-9060

Phone for more information, or send an email to:
info@CVScottishCountryDance.org

How does the music tell us?

Dance Lists

Dances worked on in the 2019-20 year
Dances worked on in the 2021-22 year
Dances worked on in the 2022-23 year
Dances of the 2024 December 9 party
Dances of the 2025 March 17 dance
Dances of the 2025 April 30 year-end dance
Dances of our 2025 Fall Season

We danced a demonstration at the Cumberland Heritage Faire
on Feb 18, 2017, in the Cumberland Recreation Centre.
Click here to see a YouTube video of us dancing Shifting Bobbins.

We hosted "Snowdrop Social" dances in late February or early March in:
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. 2018 2019 2020
(Click on the year link for details.) Lawrence Buser took a couple of videos on 23-Feb-2013, which you can see on YouTube by clicking on: Fair Jenny's Jig and The Sailor.

Click here for soup recipes!

We went over to dance with the Powell River group on April 8, 2024.
Click here for the dance list, photos and recipes.

The Powell River group, and three from Port Alberni came to dance with us for the day on March 17, 2025.
Click here for the dance list, photos and recipes.

Valentines Ball photos and details from: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

Dancing in the Merville Hall, March 2, 2019

Our group on December 4, 2017.

The kilted ones, December 4, 2017

Our Christmas 2016 evening of dancing.

Evelyn, Loys, Alison & Heather at our St Andrews party Nov 27, 2016. Loys was awarded a bottle of scotch for writing the newspaper articles which attracted our new members this fall.

Here we are with travelling musicians Corinna Rose and Leah Dolgoy, who dropped in looking for some fun. (They were stranded in the Comox Valley because the wind cancelled the ferry to their next gig in Powell River.) They were on a Home Routes house concert tour.