- TITLE
- Highland Strathspey & Reel Society Concert Programme, 1913, back cover
- EXTERNAL ID
- Z_GB1796_GRANT_979_65_PRINTEDLEAFLETS_005_004
- DATE OF IMAGE
- 1913
- PERIOD
- 1910s
- SOURCE
- Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
- ASSET ID
- 7013
- KEYWORDS
- strathspeys
reels
concerts
programmes

This is the back cover of a Highland Strathspey and Reel Society concert programme. The concert was held in the Masonic Hall in Dingwall, 7th August, 1913. In the chair for the evening was Colonel Sir Hector Munro of Foulis, Bart;, A.D.C., Lord-Lieutenant of Ross-shire. Mr. Donald Miller was the band's conductor and Mr. Alex. Grant its leader. The back contains a short history of Scottish dance music and the part played by the society in its current revival.
Strathspey and Reel Societies have been a common feature of the traditional music scene in Scotland since the formation of the first society in Edinburgh in 1881. The Highland branch was formed in 1903. One of its founder members, Alexander Grant (also known as 'Battan') was leader of the society right up until his death in 1942, a period of almost forty years