Scottish Dancing

Edge is a small Village that lies in the Cotswolds in the U.K. between the towns of Gloucester and Stroud. In the Village Hall on a Monday night, on the third Monday, once a month between late Autumn and early Summer the following year, are to be heard the happy sounds of people enjoying themselves Scottish Dancing.

EDGE REELS was started in 1985 by two local enthusiasts, Chris. Brent-Smith and Tony Milne. For just over 25 years, dancers have been meeting at Edge, dancing, making friends, welcoming newcomers, socialising afterwards - thanks to Tony and Marigold, drinking coffee, eating biscuits and chocolates, having a ‘wee dram’ and putting the world to rights. Each year we have had two excellent parties at Christmas and mid Summer, and the two dance Books - so brilliantly illustrated by Tony - have made the name of ‘Edgereels’ known around the world.

Edge Reels will continue under the present arrangements this year until our Final Christmas Party on December 19th, when we will bow out gracefully. We are delighted to say that George and Elizabeth Buchanan, with Ian and Jane Peters, will take over the Edge reins in the New Year. The dance programme will continue until the Summer Party on 18th June.

From time to time, we have issued an aide-memoire on existing and new dances, to help dancers through the steps. We are fortunate in having in Tony Milne, our extremely talented cartoonist, and he has produced a logo for our Club - see above - and illustrated many of these Progressions, Formations and Dances for us. Tony’s Cartoons have proved to be very popular, and they will still be available individually as A4 Posters to put up at meetings and to use for general publicity for SCD. See “Publications” and “Posters” for further details.