While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs stories music and dancingthat is very much alive today. In Scotland there are hundreds of ceilidh bands each of which has their own trademark tune sets making it possible for a man in a kilt to make a living as a performing musician.This booknot only provides 85 Scottish tunes in sets as they might be used in a ceilidh event—it also offers detailed beat-by-beat descriptions of the dance steps for twenty-four dances! From The Highland Scottish to The MooncoinJig with this book in hand you’ll be able to both play in the band and step to the music with the locals. The kilt is optional.Arranged for mandolin or fiddle with suggested chord backup in standard notationonly.