Come and dance your socks off with Leith's red hot ceilidh band: 'Flaming Nora'
For bookings in Scotland, discussion about what the band can do or to haggle over booking prices go to www.flamingnora.org.uk
"More hip than hypnosis" -- Sigmund Freud
Tackity bits in canadian barns and ballet pumps at society weddings and boat shoes in cosmopolitan cafes have been unable to resist the pulsating purity of this ensemble.
The ceilidh is the epitome of social inclusion and can be recommended for most people. Almost no one can do the dances; and within only a few minutes, the secret imparted and the code cracked, everyone (well almost everyone) has the equivalent of an SVQ level II. After the thin introductory bars of lilting violin, the dancers, the musicians and the under-thin guys standing at the bar are all whirled into an emulsion of ecstasy and/or perspiration.
The exhibitionist potential of the Eightsome Reel combines with the existential distress, akin to monks disintegrating under the weight of an overambitious koan, of those who have lost their way in a Strip the Willow. The playful gambolling of the couples in a Ceilidh Stramash provides a counterpoint to the more profoundly erotic symbolism of the Dashing White Sergeant. Numerous witnesses have reported spiritual experiences which can only be described as "good" during the intricate Russian Steppe Dance. The haunting menace of the St Bernard's Waltz requires a riposte - usually a bracing Gay Gordons.
With sideways homage to Jimmy Shand, full frontal exposure to Steve Earle and a backwards glance at our heritage
Text messaging is expressly forbidden during Flaming Nora ceilidhs.
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