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Originally, a cèilidh was a social gathering of any sort, and did not necessarily involve dancing: . The 'ceilidh' is a literary entertainment where stories and tales, poems and ballads, are rehearsed and recited, and songs are sung, conundrums are put, proverbs are quoted, and many other literary matters are related and discussed
The Gay Gordons is a Scottish country dance.The usual tune was written by James Scott Skinner. It was also known as The Gordon Highlanders' March, first printed in the collectiton "Monikie Series no 3" in c 1890. [1]
Ceilidh Minogue is a Scottish ceilidh band, which formed in 1995. The band played at the Ceilidh Culture Festival in 2008 [ 1 ] [ failed verification ] and at the Fest'n'Furious festival in Dundee in 2006. [ 2 ]
In Scotland, SCD is very common at both urban and rural ceilidh events. These are often informal, energetic, noisy events and the dancing is unrefined – also being aimed at beginners or at least those with very limited skills. Ceilidh dance events may present only a very small set of well known dances (particularly in urban settings).
The English ceilidh scene is made up of a number of regular clubs that put on ceilidh's at regular intervals, a number of add-hoc ceilidh's, and finally the summer folk festivals that normally have ceilidh's every night of the festival (the largest of these in England being the Sidmouth Festival). Set Types
Ceilidh Culture is an annual festival held in Edinburgh, Scotland which incorporates folk music, song, dance and storytelling. [1] There is currently a month-long programme of events which take place around Easter time. [ 2 ]
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CEILIDH is a public key cryptosystem based on the discrete logarithm problem in algebraic torus. This idea was first introduced by Alice Silverberg and Karl Rubin in 2003; Silverberg named CEILIDH after her cat.