top of page

Stockton Red Hat Society

Feb 7, 2020

12:30 P.M.

The Hilton, Stockton

The Red Thistle Dancers were pleased to perform a program of Scottish Country and Highland Dance for the Stockton Red Hat Society International Luncheon. The Red Hat Society (RHS) is a international social organization originally founded in 1998 in the United States for women age 50 and beyond, but now open to women of all ages. Today, there are over 20,000 chapters in the United States and over 30 other countries. Along with a special presentation about Scottish dance, Scottish Highland dress, and the historical representation of tartan, a new tartan designed by a member of the Red Thistle Dancers was displayed, "Red Hat Purple Thistle" - created for fellowship with Red Hat Society sisters in the signature colors. The society origins were inspired by Jenny Joseph's poem which begins ... "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me."

Red Hat Society Luncheon Program

The Happy Meeting/The Brudenell Jig/The Westminster Reel

The Village Maid (Highland Dance)

Unraveling/Red House

The Lilt (Highland Dance)

Domino Five/Five for Luck

Flora Macdonald's Fancy (Highland Dance)

Anna Holden's Strathspey/The Clansman

Blue Bonnets (Highland Dance)

From the Broomielaw/Blue Bonnets O'er the Border

Above: Tartan of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society

Album

The Red Thistle Dancers
- Scottish Dancing & Music -

bottom of page