Many moons ago, in the far-flung corners of Scotland, locals could often be caught doing a few steps while someone played a tune on the fiddle - be it in a village hall or at a kitchen ceilidh.
Throughout the 19th century, the people of the Highlands were forced to evacuate their homes in order to make way for sheep grazing. Many Scots settled in Canada, while Cape Breton Island in Eastern Nova Scotia also received around 30,000 Gaelic-speaking Highlanders. Here step dance was kept alive, while in Scotland it almost died out. However, over the past decade there has been a revival of step dance in Scotland.
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