Save the Date:
February 14–16, 2025
Our next Aloha Winter Weekend is scheduled! More details will be updated to include schedule of events, dance programs, and registration form. In the mean time, spread the word the know that there is something great to look forward to.
Several months in advance of each event, details will be published on this website. These will include application forms, dance lists, time table, location details, and prices.
As this is Valentine’s Day weekend, hotels will fill quickly. We recommend making arrangements as soon as you can. You may benefit from checking BandB’s just outside of Waikiki if you want to escape the traffic.
A Scottish Country Dance Workshop
General Program
- On Friday night we have a meet and greet event and a social dance.
- Classes take place on Saturday morning and afternoon.
- On Saturday night dinner is followed by a Ball.
- On Sunday morning there is a class and on Sunday evening we have a Ceilidh.
- For many years the band have made an enormous contribution to our Weekends, playing for evening events and classes.
Guest Instructors
Bruce Herbold
Bruce Herbold began Scottish Country Dancing in 1976 in Berkeley and has pursued it avidly ever since. He began teaching in 1981 in Sacramento. In both dancing and teaching, Bruce emphasizes the social aspects of Scottish Country Dance, especially the joys of teamwork and social interaction. He teaches regular Monday and Thursday night classes in Berkeley and San Francisco.
Bruce co-taught a teacher training class and has taught at workshops in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Cleveland, Pinewoods, and California, as well as previous Aloha Winter Weekends in Honolulu.
“The music, sociability, ingenuity, and fun of Scottish social dance continually inspire me.”
David Newitt
David Newitt began folk and square dancing at Swarthmore College in the fall of 1976 and he has been dancing ever since. He went on to learn international folk dancing, and joined the English Morris and rapper sword teams. Getting his start in SCD with the Delaware Valley RSCDS branch.
David moved to Berkeley in 1982 to work on a Ph.D. in physics and to do country and display dancing, and has been dancing and teaching in the Bay Area ever since. Since earning his RSCDS teacher certificate in 1988 he has concentrated on country dancing, teaching regular Scottish and English dances, and calling American contra dances. David has taught at Scottish Camp Mendocino, and at workshops in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii. Along with his fiddling wife Heather MacKay, David also loves playing music for English and Scottish dancing.
The section is Humuhumunukunukuapua’a & Strathspey and Society Band
Bruce Herbold (percussion & clarinet), Patti Cobb (piano) & David Newitt (concertina), started jamming at a Scottish Dance week on the island of Kauai. They soon added the like-minded Heather MacKay (fiddle) to the mix. They adopted the state fish of Hawaii, Humuhumunukunukuāpua’a as their mascot, and became The Humuhumunukunukuapua’a and Strathspey Society Band – “the world’s finest Hawaiian-themed Scottish Country Dance band.” Enhancing their musical talents, all four are avid dancers, and Bruce, David & Patti are certificated RSCDS teachers. They have played for the Hawaii Branch’s Aloha Winter Weekend workshops since 2007. They are joined this year by Betsy St. Aubin on the fiddle for our 51st Aloha Winter Weekend.
For questions contact Bruce McEwan, 808-538-7707, or Melissa Lindsay, 808-256-3347.