Kent Association of Scottish Societies

K.A.S.S.is an association of seventeen Scottish / Caledonian societies many of which are Scottish country dance groups.

The map indicates where the clubs are in Kent. Click on the club name to find out more about the club and their activities.
Map of Kent
KENT
SCD = Scottish Country Dance
Canterbury St. Andrews SCD Group
Canterbury Scottish Society
Cobtree SCD Group - Maidstone
Deal SCD Group
Dover SCD Group
Gravesend & District Scottish Association
Isle of Thanet Scottish Country Dancers
Medway & District Caledonian Association
Meopham SCD Club
North Kent Scottish Association
Orpington & District Caledonian Society
RSCDS Royal Tunbridge Wells Branch
Sevenoaks Reel Club
Sheerness Scottish Heather Club
Sidcup & District Caledonian Association
Sittingbourne SCD Group
Thanet & District Caledonian Society
Tunbridge Wells & Crowborgh SCD Group

Next KASS Event

KASS Spring Tea dance

Sunday 18th April 2010

Meopham Scottish County Dance Group are the hosts for this event and it will take place in the Village Hall, Meopham

Spring flowers
The Chairman of KASS presentin Demelza House Charity with a cheque for £1,000
Muriel Greenstead, Chairman of KASS presenting the Demelza House charity with a cheque for £1,000 at the KASS Autumn Dance

Dance demonstrations and pipers

Dance demonstration bromley arts festival
photograph: Orpington and District Caledonian Society
dance demonstration
photograph: Orpington and District Caledonian Society

Dance demonstrations

The following clubs have dance demonstration teams who are willing to provide Scottish Country Dance demonstrations within their locality.

Orpington & District - Scottish Country Dancing

Maclennan Scottish Dance Group - Scottish Country Dancing and Highland dancers

Isle of Thanet SCD & Canterbury SCD - Scottish Country Dancing and Highland dancers

RSCDS Tunbridge Wells - Scottish Country Dancing and Highland dancers

Medway & District Caledonian Society - Scottish Country Dancing

The KASS member clubs can be contacted via the contact page of this website and the Maclennan Group can be contacted at www.msg.org.uk

Individual pipers and Highland dancers

Highland dancers

Jenny Barrow

Lorna Hicks

Victoria Grayland

Pipers

Jenny Barrow

Derek Freestone

The contact details of the individual dancers and pipers can be obtained from the secretary of KASS - see KASS contacts page, info@KASS.org.uk

Places named in Scottish Country Dances

Many Scottish Country dances are named after places, or, have place names in their title. Alan Mills has found 400 that include places in Scotland and if you click on the World icon below a Google Earth file will open and you can zoom in on Scotland to see where those places are.

The Google Earth file will only open if Google Earth has been installed on your computer. You can download and install Google Earth free from the Google website.

picture of Earth

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