Christmas Lunch 2023
Tartan and Final Night Fun 2023
Lower North Island RSCDS Centenary Ball
Winter School: Kiama, Australia 2023
Halloween 2023
New Dancers’ Celebration 2023
Glendarroch 60th Anniversary
A Grand 70th Birthday Bash!
Stars or Stripes Ceilidh and Dinner
Napier Club 70th Anniversary Ball
Johnsonville & Capital City Annual Dance 2023
Robert Vale: Upper Hutt Annual Dance 2023
Robert Vale: Linden and Levin Annual Dances 2023
Robert Vale: Tawa Annual Dance 2023
Loralee Hyde: Warming up on a chilly afternoon
Tartan Night May 2023: Tartans with a tale to tell
Ngaio Annual Dance: The first dance of 2023
An afternoon of Early Wellington Dances
April Tartan Night: Happy faces and good spirits
St Patrick’s Day Celebration
Summer Ceilidh: A great start to 2023
Loralee Hyde: Highlights from Auckland Summer School
Christmas Lunch 2023: A good time in good company
Our Christmas lunch gathering is a lovely, relaxing way to end the club year. More than 25 people came along this year – it’s great to have the opportunity to slow down, sit around, and talk to each other. See more about this social afternoon
Tartan and Final Night Fun 2023
Johnsonville Club ended the year on a high, with eight sets on the floor for our Tartan and Final Night at Khandallah Town Hall on Monday 27 November. Find out more
Lower North Island RSCDS Centenary Ball
To celebrate the Centenary of the RSCDS over 130 people keen to dance and socialise filled the floor at the Lower North Island RSCDS Centenary Ball at the College Street School Hall in Palmerston North on Saturday 4 November. See more about this once-in-a lifetime experience
Winter School: Kiama, Australia 2023
The 2023 Sydney Winter School in Kiama was Catherine and Sarah Epps‘ first big Scottish Country Dancing event. Find out more about the fun of their classes, social events and other experiences
Halloween 2023
Johnsonville’s Halloween/Samhain celebrations are always a lot of fun. This year there were witches, wizards, and devils in their capes, hats, and horns. Plus skulls and skeletons, winged bats and lurking spiders. See more about this fun-filled evening
New Dancers’ Celebration 2023
Upwards of 80 dancers including 30 newer dancers took to the floor on 7 October in the Wairarapa College Hall in Masterton. Nineteen Johnsonville dancers made it over the hill for this celebration. Find out more about this fabulous evening of dancing
Glendarroch 60th Anniversary
Glendarroch Club celebrated their 60th Anniversary on 23 September. More than five sets were present, including quite a few Wellington dancers for an excellent programme of seventeen dances. See more from Robert Vale about this celebration
A Grand 70th Birthday Bash!
Wellington musicians Lynne Scott and Aileen Logie invited dancers to celebrate their 70th birthdays with them and a number of musician friends at a special evening of dancing on 16 September. Find out more about this great treat!
Stars or Stripes Ceilidh and Dinner 2023
The Johnsonville 2023 mid-year Stars or Stripes Ceilidh on Saturday 9 September was a great success, with our maximum ever attendance of 50. Find out more about our very social evening of chat, dining and dancing
Napier Club 70th Anniversary Ball
Napier Club celebrated their 70th Anniversary on 26 August with a Ball in St Patrick’s School Hall. A Piper led the Grand March which marked the evening as a special occasion. See more from Robert Vale about this memorable night
Johnsonville & Capital City Annual Dance 2023
At our Annual Dance on 19 August, the atmosphere was buzzing with around 10 sets of dancers enjoying a great programme, great music and an excellent supper. Thanks to every dancer who made it a good night for all. Find out more about this fantastic night
Robert Vale: Upper Hutt Annual Dance 2023
Fourteen Johnsonville Club members attended the Upper Hutt Annual Dance on 22 July. See Robert’s story about this great night of dancing to the music of Lynne Scott, Mary McDonald and Ann Goodbehere
Robert Vale: Linden and Levin Annual Dances 2023
Linden Club celebrated their Annual Dance on 1 July on the beautiful new floor at the Ngaio Town Hall. Levin Club held their Annual Dance on Sunday afternoon 9 July. See Robert’s stories about these enjoyable dances with great music
Robert Vale: Tawa Annual Dance 2023
A good number of Johnsonville members were on the floor to enjoy Tawa’s Annual Dance on Saturday 10 June. Having done 18 dances, the dancers went home quite tired and footsore as well as exhilarated. See more about this grand night
Loralee Hyde: Warming up on a chilly afternoon
Wellington’s Tuesday afternoon general dancing class was in fine form on 20 June with more than four sets of dancers taking to the floor. Finding our way through rather vigorous jigs and reels meant it didn’t take us long to warm up
Tartan Night May 2023: Tartans with a tale to tell
There are some interesting stories behind ‘new’ tartans seen on the floor at the Johnsonville Tartan Night in May 2023. Read tales about their tartan from Janet Thomson, Veronica Young, Ian Leask and Prisilla Conroy
Ngaio Annual Dance: The first dance of 2023
Ngaio Club has opened the Annual Dance season for many years now, with live music appearing some time around the 1980s. See more about the great night of dancing at the first Annual Dance in 2023
An afternoon of Early Wellington Dances
A unique experience of our Scottish Country Dancing history: As part of the RSCDS Centenary Events, a lively crowd of close to 60 dancers gathered in Wellington on 29 April for an afternoon of trying out dances from our past. With lots of fun and laughter, we had a superb afternoon of dancing, listening to Peter Elmes’ arrangements of tunes and socialising. See more about this special occasion
April Tartan Night: Happy faces and good spirits
The club’s first tartan night of 2023 was a great success, full of happy faces and good spirits’. Having almost seven sets on the floor made for plenty of high spirits and laughter. And our MC, Rod made sure we all had a good time. Find out more
St Patrick’s Day Celebration 2023: A sign of rejuvenation
The 2023 turnout of 46 dancers was almost twice the attendance at our 2022 St Patrick’s Day Celebration. It was a grand night, full of the hilarity and high spirits associated with the tricky Irish dances. See more about this fun evening
Summer Ceilidh: A great start to 2023
We had a great day at our summer ceilidh on 28 January, starting with indoor bowls, followed by fun for everyone with a mix of ceilidh dances and easy Scottish Country dances, plus entertainment from our ceilidh performers. Find out more
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Summer School 2022-2023
Dancers from across New Zealand and around the world took part in the the first NZ Branch Summer School for three years in Auckland from 28 December 2022. Find out more about Loralee Hyde’s highlights from this wonderful week of fun and friendship! Plus the escapades of a mysterious dancing Unicorn…
