Ball Photo/Video Album

 

Madison Scottish Country Dancers invite you to join us for our 44th Annual Ball!

Join us, friends, for a weekend combining the new and the old! As the camp song goes, “one is silver and the other gold.”  New and previous musicians, fresh and traditional dances, students and experienced dancers, we’ll have a ball (pun intended)! For the first time we’ll be enjoying the exciting music of Andy Imbrie and Caroline McCaskey from the San Francisco Bay area’s Reel of Seven. The duo will be joined for part of the program by Madison fiddler extraordinaire Dave Mullen. Talented piper Andrew Seevers will lead the Grand March.

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Andy Imbrie (piano) began studying classical piano as a child and started playing for dances with the encouragement of Kim McGarrity and Barbara McOwen. He is the band leader for Reel of Seven, and plays regularly for Scottish country dancing, ceilidh dancing, and contra dances throughout the U.S. and Canada. He has been on music staff for several tours, including one in France, three to New Zealand and one to Scotland, Orkney, and the Shetland Islands. He has also been on staff at Asilomar and Pinewoods workshops and was honored to have been invited to teach piano accompaniment at the Boston Harbor Fiddle School and the Valley of the Moon Scottish fiddling school for several years. Andy was delighted to serve as music director for the TAC Summer School in 2019 and to be on staff at the International Branch workshop in Italy in 2022. 

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Caroline McCaskey (fiddle, saw) is the 2019 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion and a two-time International Musical Saw Champion. A native daughter of the genre-bending West Coast music scene, she is equally at home in the traditional, improvisational and classical music worlds. In demand as a teacher and performer throughout North America and author of the AltStrings Fiddle Method, she holds degrees in music composition and performance, as well as Suzuki teaching certification in violin and cello. Caroline is a fiddler for the dance bands Tartan Suite, Reel of Seven and Greenwich Mean Time. She also performs regularly with Boston-based guitarist and banjo player Larry Unger, and with cellist Daniel Delaney as Secret Oaks, a jazz- and folk-inspired string duo.

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Weekend Schedule

 

Friday, March 22

 

7:30 pm     Concert & Dessert Buffet

$15 suggested donation 

General public welcome

Andy Imbrie and Caroline McCaskey

Featuring Scottish fiddle and piano tunes, the musical saw, and Highland step dance demonstrations.

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Bethany Ministry Center/Evangelical Free Church

301 Riverside Drive Madison 53704

(Parking behind church and on side streets. Enter from parking lot.)

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Saturday, March 23

All activities at 

Memorial Union

800 Langdon St., Madison 53706

 

Ball Program Walkthroughs 

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1:00 - 2:30 pm  Beginner Walkthrough (1st year dancers)

Old Madison Room (3rd floor)

800 Langdon St., Madison 53706

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1:00 - 2:30 pm    Advanced Walkthrough

Class of 1924 Room (4th floor)

800 Langdon St., Madison 53706

4:30 pm    Social Hour with Cash Bar

Great Hall, 4th Floor

5:30 pm    Sit-down Dinner

7:00 pm    Grand March and Ball 

Musicians: Andy Imbrie & Caroline McCaskey with Dave Mullen

Piper: Andrew Seevers

      

11:30 pm    After-Ball Party at a member's home*

Sunday, March 24

 

10:00 am     Potluck Brunch at a member’s home*

 

*Addresses available at ball

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Health Policy

We suggest taking a Covid test before arriving. Full refunds are available for medical reasons.

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Do not attend any of the weekend activities if you feel ill. Please test if you suspect you have contracted Covid. Follow the CDC guidelines about precautions and isolation if you have been exposed or if you have had Covid recently. Practice good hand hygiene. Masks are optional but welcome. We reserve the right to amend our policy if conditions warrant it.