There is also an Irish set dance called the Caledonian, which, being a four couple set might have morphed in Canada into some kind of barn dance. Sent from my iOnlypretendtomultitask

On Jan 26, 2014, at 3:28 AM, <winston(a)slac.stanford.edu> wrote: I believe Alan meant it's a Schottische. (Perhaps "Scottish" is an alternative spelling for "Schottische," but I think it's not the usual spelling.) Or perhaps Alan meant that the dance is a Scottish dance. It's certainly in the repertoire of some groups that describe themselves as Scottish dance groups. I don't know when the sequence was put together in its current form, or by whom, or whether that happened in Canada, Scotland, or elsewhere. John Tuck <jatuckdk(a)gmail.com>om>, in his original query wrote: If I search in Google for the exact phrase "caledonian barn dance" (by including the quotation marks around my search string), it says No results found for "caledonian barn dance". and then returns hits for the query without quatation marks--that is, for pages with each of the words "caledonian", "barn", and "dance" (or inflected forms) but not necessarily in that consecutive order. If I use the search string "canadian barn dance" Google returns lots of hits (though not nearly the "About 267,000" that it claims), and many of those are for pages with videos or dance descriptions. (There are also some hits for pages about a resort in Alberta called "The Great Canadian Barn Dance" where activities include dancing. I don't know whether the dances currently taught there include the one after which the facility was apparently named). Here are a few URLs selected from the results of the Google search: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc0yO39IRKg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSEBdX4d0QM http://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/canadian-barn… http://www.webfeet.org/eceilidh/dances/canadian-barn-dance.html http://www.thebigshoogle.com/ceilidh-dance-instructions/canadian-barn-dance http://www.folkdance.com/LDNotations/CanadianBarnDance1950LD.pdf All of these seem to show or describe essentially the same dance, except for stylistic variations, The last page on the list also mentions a progressive version. --Jim