|
|
|
Branch Events 2023 - 2024 |
|
Future Events Christmas Dance - Friday 8th December 2023 This will take place at the Ashdale Hall and tickets will be available from mid-October. James Coutts and his band will be our musicians. Spring Dance - Friday 8th March 2024 This will take place at the Ashdale Hall and tickets will be available from January 2024. Marian Anderson and her band will be the musicians. Past Events Spring Dance - Friday 10th March 2023 This took place at the Ashdale Hall. Ewan Galloway and his band will be the musicians. Christmas Dance - Friday 9th December 2022 This took place at the Ashdale Hall. Scott Band and his band were our superb musicians. Spring Dance - Friday 11th March 2022 This took place at the Ashdale Hall with over 100 dancers attending. Susie Simpson and her band were the fabulous musicians. Christmas Dance - Friday 10th December 2021 This dance was a free welcome back to dancing dance with over 90 people attending. Ian Thomson and his band were our excellent musicians. Winter Socials 2019-2020 We are delighted to re-instigate our Winter Socials. There will be 3 during the 2019-29 season all held at Craigiebuckler Church hall on a Sunday afternoon from 2:00 - 3:30pm with a cup of tea and a biscuit afterwards. Everyone welcome. Dates TBC. Beginner's Afternoon Tea Dance, 8th February 2020 For the third year running we are delighted to be holding a Beginner's Afternoon Tea Dance on Sunday 9th February 2020. This will be at Holburn West from 2:00 - 3:30 with a cup of tea and a piece of cake afterwards. Everyone welcome to support our Introductory classes. Spring Dance 13th March 2020 Our Spring Dance was to be held on the 2nd Friday in March as always at the Ashdale Hall in Westhill. We will be dancing to the music of Neil Copland. Tickets will be on sale at all classes and dances from February 2020. Winter Socials 2018-2019 We are delighted to reinstigate our Winter Socials. There were 3 during the 2018-19 season all held at Craigiebuckler Church hall on a Sunday afternoon from 2:00 - 3:30pm with a cup of tea and a biscuit afterwards. Everyone welcome. Dates were: Sunday 11th November, Sunday 13th January, Sunday 3rd March. Beginner's Afternoon Tea Dance, 10th February 2019 For the third year running we were delighted to be holding a Beginner's Afternoon Tea Dance on Sunday 10th February 2019. It was held at Holburn West from 2:00 - 3:30 with a cup of tea and a piece of cake afterwards. Everyone welcomed to support our Introductory classes. Spring Dance 8th March 2019 Our Spring Dance was held on the 2nd Friday in March as always but with a change of veuue to the Ashdale Hall in Westhill. We will be dancing to the music of Marian Anderson. Tickets will be on sale at all classes and dances from February 2019. Afternoon Tea Party 12th May 2019 The committee is pleased to announce that we held a tea party on Sunday 12th May 2019 from 2:00 to 4:00 at the Treetops Hotel in Aberdeen. Over 70 people attended and the afternoon included demonstrations by the Craigiebuckler and City Moves children's classes. The Branch subsidised the full afternoon tea and tickets to ensure a place were £5. Click here for the form. Everyone was welcome! Christmas Dance 14th December 2018 This took place on the 2nd Friday in December as always (8th December 2018) at the Ashdale Hall in Westhill. We danced to James Coutts and his band with some lovely tunes (including some Christmassy ones). We commenced the evening with a welcome drink. We raised £345 in our raffle for Charlie House (https://www.charliehouse.org.uk/) (and thanks to everyone who donated to the raffle prizes. Summer Socials 2018 We were pleased to be returning to our very successful venue of Curl Aberdeen for our Summer Socials this year. Every Wednesday from 2nd May to 29th August 7:30 - 9:45pm (with a break for a cup of tea and a biscuit) and everyone is welcome. Ceilidh night on 23rd May and Family Night on 15th August (7:00pm start). Spring Dance 9th March 2018 Our Spring Dance was held on the 2nd Friday in March as always (9th March 2018) at the MacRobert Hall, Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen. Dancing was to the music of Iain MacPhail and over 80 dancers attended a really good evening. Christmas Dance 8th December 2017 This took place on the 2nd Friday in December as always (8th December 2017) at the Ashdale Hall in Westhill. We will be dancing to Nicol McLaren and his band and we started the evening with a welcome drink. Reception at 7:00, dancing commenced at 7:30pm and the raffle was in aid of CLDF (Child Liver Disease Foundation). An excellent evening! Summer Socials 2017 These ran every Wednesday 7:30 - 9:45 (with a break for a cup or tea and a biscuit) from 3rd May to 30th August. We had a different MC every week with a huge variety of programmes. Our Family night was well attended by children from our classes and off-spring of our members. The final two evenings had a medley of MCs. Musicians throughout the season included Frank Thomson (our resident musician!), Angela Young, Kathleen Anderson, Erika Fairhead, Iain Cruikshanks and Charlie Abel. The Spring Dance this year returned to the MacRobert Hall at Robert Gordon's School on Friday 10th March. Dancing was to Alan Ross and his band. This was an excellent dance and we were delighted that a large number of our two Introductory class members came along (and were ably helped by many of the dancers attending). Beginner's Charity Dance This year we had two Introductory classes and we thought we would let them see what happens at a "dance" before they venture to come along to our Spring Dance (see below). So we booked Holburn West Church Hall on Sunday 5th February and there was dancing followed by a cup of tea and a piece of cake! The dance was for a charity (Aberdeen Art Gallery) and the cost was £5. Frank Thomson was the musician, and the dances were simple. Everyone welcome. Global Youth Week Dance RSCDS HQ launched an initiative for Global Youth Week which the Branch has interpreted to mean - anyone younger than yourself! There was a dance on Sunday 15th January at Craigiebuckler Church Hall 2:30 - 4:00 to which everyone was invited - and bring someone younger along with you! The dance was a mixture of ceilidh dancing and simple Scottish Country Dancing. No tickets - just turn up! Entry by donation. We were delighted to welcome Charlie Abel (from Iron Broo dance band) as our musician. Christmas Dance 2016 Our annual Christmas Dance was on Friday 9th December 2016 at the Ashdale Hall, Westhill. Tickets will be on sale at all classes from October. Dancing will be to the band of Jim Lindsay. Summer Socials 2016 Summer Socials ran every Wednesday from 4th May to 31st August 2016 at Curl Aberdeen. We had good numbers attending and enjoyed a Family Social and a variety of musicians including our resident Frank Thomson, Angela Young, Ian Cruickshanks, Kathleen Anderson, Erika Fairhead and an evening of CDs. May Dance 2016 In conjunction with the Headquarters Youth Workshop initiative, we ran a dance in the evening. Both events were at the Boys Brigade Headquarters on Crimon Place and we danced to the lovely music of Ian Thomson's Band. Emma Allsop and Doris Young were the teachers for the Youth Workshop and Emma was the caller for the evening. The atmosphere for the dance was excellent! Spring Dance 2016 Our annual Spring Dance was held on Friday 11th March at the MacRobert Hall, Robert Gordon's College, School Hill Aberdeen. Dancing was to the band of Ian Cruickshanks and dancing was from 8:00pm to midnight. Tickets were on sale at all classes and from members of committee or aberdeenrscds@hotmail.co.uk. There was excellent refreshments in the interval. 90th Anniversary Celebrations The committee excelled themselves with a number of events during 2015 to celebrate 90 years of our Branch. Dinner Dance on Friday 16th October and Tea Party on Sunday 18th October. Click here for more information. Both events were open to non-members - everyone welcome! |
