• Friday Harbor, WA - Friday Harbor Scottish Country Dancers. Sundays, Beg: 4:00-5:30 PM, Intermed: 5:30-7 PM. Location: Dance Workshop II, 15 Second Street N., Friday Harbor, WA.  Contact: Bill Paterson, (360) 378-4992 
  
   
• Spokane, WA - Spokane Scottish Country Dancers. We practice on Thurs. night at First Presbyterian Church, 318 S. Cedar, Spokane, WA.; 7 pm.  Contact D. McClelland for more information.
  
   
• Vancouver, WA - Vancouver, USA Scottish Country Dancers. Dance classes in Kelso/Longview area also.
  
   
• Portland, OR - Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Portland Branch.   Their primary site for the RSCDS Portland group gives its official information as well as for neighboring areas.
  Other listings of Portland SCD: Scott MacHaffie's Portland Scottish dancing (This site also has a book list with comments on SCD books).
  
   
• Central/Southern Western OR (Ashland, Eugene, etc.) - The Heather and the Rose Country Dancers. They do a mix of English and Scottish country dances. Be aware that they use different terminology for sides of the set, etc. than the RSCDS - check their website for more information. Also, their events are fragrance free.
  
   
• Central Oregon (Bend, Madras, Prineville, Redmond area) - High Desert Celtic Country Dancers. Primarily Scottish Country Dances with some dancers working on Highland and occasionally something else such as Irish, Shetland, or English.

• Victoria, B.C., Canada - Victoria Branch, Royal Scottish Country Dance .    Their June 2012 newsletter concludes the activity of this branch with declining members.  Check out the Vancouver Branch website for other dancing events.
    
  
• Vancouver Island Scottish Country Dancing Society
   
  
• Youth Weekend West:   Open to ages 12-30ish.  www.youthweekendwest.com 
  
  
• Vancouver, B.C., Canada - The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Vancouver Branch   This branch provides a very large number of Ceilidh dance events in many locations.  If you will to browse their information they offer you a great personalized email that comes via email.  So if you wish to join them while up in B.C. please do the following:
  Go to  www.vancouverceilidh.org and ask them to subscribe.  This is easy to do, for a great newsletter that they publish often, and you can unsubscribe later if you are not using it. (Best to copy this link into your browser and then do it.) There is no cost right now. 10/11.

  
  
   

• San Francisco, CA - RSCDS San Francisco Branch 
   

• "The other Washington" (DC, USA) - RSCDS  Also covers classes in northern Virginia.
  
  
• White Rock Scottish Country Dance Club, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada.
  
  

• Enumclaw, WA - Plateau Scottish Country Dancers -  Contact Jim and Pat McDonald for more information.  
  
  

• Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.  Has 2009 June event and lots more.
   

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• Scottish Step Dance Classes - All levels step dance taught.  Contact: Elizabeth Miller.  206 782-8345

• Bonnie Dundee - Scottish dance performing group, based in Seattle. See their website.   Contact: Elizabeth Miller. 206 782-8345 bdinfo@rscds-seattle.org 
  
  

•  Pacific Northwest Highland Games and Clan Gathering -Gathering of the clans, dance competitions, performances, pipers, many booths, and more.  See their site for this year's program.
  
  

• Skagit Valley Highland Games and Scottish Faire
  
  

• Spokane Highland Games, Spokane, WA
  

• Bellingham Highland Games.  Ferndale, WA
  
  

• Slighe nan Gaidheal - Seattle's Gaelic Language and Cultural Society. 
  
  

• Northwest Scottish Fiddlers organization directed by Calum MacKinnon of Seattle.  This group plays traditional Scottish fiddle music.  Their website has lots of Northwest gatherings information.
  
  

• BC Pipers Association, Vancouver BC.  www.bcpipers.org 

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World of SCD Beyond The Northwest

This is not an exhaustive list of SCD resources on the web - just a selection of handy references to get you started. (For a fairly complete listing of groups, bands, etc., see the Grand Chain link, below.)

• The Strathspey Server - Strathspey is an electronic mailing list for Scottish country dance. It  features an archive of past discussions, resources of interest to Scottish country dancers, and links to other SCD sites. They have a database of Scottish Country dance groups with maps. Good article on "What is SCD".
  

• InterCityScot - Directory of Scottish Country Dance clubs, dances, workshops and classes in North America.

• Grand Chain: The Edinburgh Scottish Dance Resource - A trove of useful links and information, including a nice collection of Hints and Tips for SCD, an extensive directory of Scottish Dance groups around the world, and a list of Scottish Dancing Bands.

The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Edinburgh, Scotland - news about the society, information about RSCDS publications, etc.

• The Teacher's Association of Canada (TAC) - Association of teachers of Scottish country dancing, source for SCD books and recordings.  
  
  

• TAC Summer School - 36th Year   www.tac-rscds.org
  
  

• Scottish Connections -  Gaelic and Scots  website. All you ever wanted to know about Scotland and its people.
  
  

• New Scotland Country Dance Society at Edinburgh University. Holds classes in many styles of Scottish dancing: (country, ceilidh, highland, step).
  
  

Dance Descriptions

• Scottish Country Dances Published on the Web - Oberdan Otto's index of Scottish country dance instructions published on the World Wide Web.

DanceData - Database of information about Scottish country dances, tunes, publications and recordings, by Alan Paterson.   There is also an online search engine where you can look up information about dances.

Music

• SCD MP3's - Examples of Scottish Country Dance music found on the web, selected on the basis of what I could find (i.e. we have no connection with the groups listed here, the selections noted may not be ideal for dancing but should give a flavor of the music we dance too). MP3.com - Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club (for examples of SCD music, try: More Jigs, A Quartet of Fiddles (reels) and Strathspey Set -2 strathspeys and a reel) Wild Abandon (Strayaway jig) (MP3 is records music digitally, like a CD).

• SCD Music (ABC format) - John Chambers' Scottish Country Dance Tunes and a search program John Chambers' ABC tune finder (search for tune by name, can download in several formats, including gif, postscript or MIDI). (sheet music for tunes)

• Ceolas  - Collection of information on Celtic music and links to related sites.

          If you are interested in purchasing music or   recordings, see 
          Where to Buy SCD Supplies,  locally and TAC  above.

• Music in Scotland - sells recordings of SCD music, has an index of recordings of dances on CD's they sell.  See also DanceData above.
  
  

• Seattle Branch RSCDS has enjoyed and encouraged the music of Cali and Ryan McKasson here in the Northwest.  Now they have their own site for their Scottish music.  www.themckassons.com