My favourite dance is Drops of Brandy which is all stripping the willow, and probably my favourite set of dance tunes switching from schottisches to slip jigs and getting progressively faster. There's another modern dance by Hugh Rippon 'Willow Tree' for eight couples which I also like that contains a short strip the willow.

Drops of Brandy is a quintessential Scots dance but a great favourite at English ceilis. Our band used it as the penultimate dance to tire out the dancers before heading home.