After an amazing first run quiz we have brought things forward from the iron age Celts to a modern 1926 innovation which has taken Britian by storm.
A favourite social event in England, Ireland and Scotland is the Cèilidh (Kay-lee)where people of all ages gather to perform simple, traditional folk dances, accompanied by folk instruments such as the Bodhrán (bore-anne)-an Irish frame drum played with a double-ended beater, the fiddle which is like a violin played in a rustic style, an accordion or squeeze-box, various types of flutes and whistles and anything else that local musicians play that fits in with the music such as a guitar or string bass. The dances are simple to learn but energetic to perform. They are structured in sets, for example, circles, sets of four couples in a square, or couples facing each other in a line. Cèilidhs (Kay-lee's) have been popular in Ireland since 1926 when Séamus (Shaymus) Clandillon, Radio Éireann's (Erin's) director of Music held the first cèilidh (Kay-lee) to have dance music for his studio-based programs. The oldest, largest and longest running cèilidh (Kay-lee) event in Scotland is the Highland Annual, held in Edinburgh. It originated decades ago probably in the 1920s. It is the oldest cèilidh in Scotland.
