This little book of dance instructions has been published in conjunction with the CD "Footnotes" featuring the band The Occasionals. All the dances in the book can be found on the CD. The Occasionals are: Freeland Barbour, Jim Barrie, Malcolm Jones, Ally MacIntyre, Kevin MacLeod, Neil MacMillan, Gus Millar, Brian Miller, Charlie Soane. The dance instructions have been prepared by Wilma Henderson, Dave Francis, Eric Wood and Elizabeth Wade and co-ordinated by Wilma Henderson.

In recent years there has been a great revival of interest and participation in what have come to be termed 'ceilidh dances' and this booklet has come about as a result of this to act as a very basic introduction to the most common and popular dances, dances which in fact been current in some form or another in Scotland since the end of the last century.

The dances:
The Gay gordons
The Eva Three Step
The St. Bernard's Waltz
The Dashing White Sergeant
The Military Two Step
The Canadian Barn Dance
The Pride of Erin Waltz
Strip the Willow
The Britannia Two Step
Waltz Country Dance
The Cumberland Square Eight
The Highland Schottische
The Swedish Masquerade
The Virginia Reel
The Foula Reel
The Veleta
The Eightsome Reel