Between the Rivers Team - North American Festival

The 2026 Between the Rivers Team - North American Festival

Following the success of the North American Team at the 2024 and 2025 Newcastle Scottish Country Dance Festival, this year the Teachers' Association (Canada) Youth Committee presented the inaugural North American Festival on April 4, 2026, in Philadelphia, PA! For more information about the Festival, see the MailChimp message archive.

Dancers from DC, MD, and VA have joined together to form the Between the Rivers Team, and entered in the Social Demonstration, Open Technique (MacNab Dances), and Display categories. From January-March the dancers worked very hard to learn the dances and choreography and polish their dancing skills. They had a blast performing at the festival, to live music from DC area band Waverley Station - David Knight, fiddle and Liz Donaldson, piano.

Participation in this Festival was a fantastic opportunity for the Between the Rivers Team members to dance with dancers from other DC area dance groups, meet dancers from the wider North American SCD community, improve their dancing and teamwork skills, and share their love of Scottish Country Dancing.

The Festival was a great success! Next year's festival will be March 6, 2027, in Vancouver, BC, Canada!

Support the 2026 Between the Rivers Team!

Thank you so much to everyone who supported the Between the Rivers Team!

Please note: The Between the Rivers Team is jointly sponsored by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Northern Virginia Branch and the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Washington DC Branch, both not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organizations serving the Scottish Dance community. Contributions to the Between the Rivers Team handled RSCDS Washington DC Branch are tax-deductible in the United States to the extent allowed by law.