Teachers and musicians
We have a great team of teachers and musicians to get us on our toes and keep us dancing.
If you are wondering, Luke and Adam are brothers.
Patrick Chamoin
Patrick is a Frenchman, originally from Paris and now lives in the East of France near Strasbourg. He started Scottish dancing when he was a child, and hasn’t stopped since then! He loves dancing at the highest standard. He has been teaching for more than 30 years in many different countries and situations, for weekly classes, day schools, week-ends or summer schools everywhere in Europe and beyond. He loves sharing his passion for Scottish dancing and having the opportunity to meet friends everywhere in the world. It is with great pleasure that he accepted the invitation to teach for Spring Fling to the young generation of dancers and looks forward to meeting everyone in Oxford.
Eilidh Garden
Having first started dancing at a lunchtime club in her primary school in Aberdeenshire, Eilidh has never stopped since. She grew up attending festivals and performing in demonstrations, only discovering the world of social dancing as an adult. While living in Glasgow she started teaching university students and found a real love for watching others develop their Scottish country dance skills and especially their confidence. She has since taught classes for students and locals in St Andrews as well as workshops in Glasgow and Edinburgh. She currently lives and works in Edinburgh where she regularly teaches the university beginners class and the Gay Gordons (a social class for lgbt+ dancers). She is very excited to see everyone in Oxford and to get to dance with as many new faces as possible!
Alice Stainer
Alice came to Scottish country dancing as an undergraduate in Oxford, thinking to exchange the rigours of ballet for a more sociable form of dance that complemented her family connections to Scotland. It has certainly made her friends in many different places: she regularly teaches at RSCDS Summer School in St Andrews, as well as having taught Winter School, an RSCDS Youth Workshop and leading day and weekend Schools around the UK and in Europe. She also takes weekly classes of various levels at her home branch in Oxford. In addition, she is a keen advocate for the grace and precision of Scottish step dancing, teaching it online and in various workshops including at Summer School.
Chris Jeffery
Chris teaches and dances at RSCDS Oxfordshire and when she's not dancing Scottish she enjoys clog dancing. That's lucky for us as Chris will teach us something different at the clog dancing class on Saturday afternoon.
Luke Brady
Luke started playing music at the age of 6 and has never stopped! His band has performed extensively across the U.K. and Europe, with visits to North America, Australia and Japan. The band has recorded 5 albums under their own label and two more for the RSCDS. Luke spent a decade as a professional musician for dance, working with Scottish Dance Theatre, Scottish Ballet, The Royal Ballet and the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance.
Throughout this time, Luke has been a stalwart of the St Andrews Summer School and is a past coordinator of Winter School and Spring Fling. He has recently come to the end of his term as the RSCDS Music Director where he promoted new musicians, fair pay and putting music at the forefront of Country Dance.
Adam Brady
Growing up on the east coast of Scotland, traditional music and dance have formed an integral part of Adam’s life. Adam began playing the accordion and piano at five years old and first started playing for country dancing at ten years old. Since first playing for local classes for RSCDS Dundee Branch, Adam has had the pleasure to travel throughout the UK, Europe, US, Canada, Japan and Australia playing for classes, dances and music workshops. Adam has also been an invited musician for the RSCDS Summer School for the past ten years and has also played for the RSCDS Winter School, Spring Fling and AGM Weekend. Alongside his older brother, he has also recorded and released five albums of country dance music as well as two recordings for the RSCDS. As a keen dancer, Adam also enjoys getting to dance – when he can! It is an absolute pleasure to return to play for Spring Fling and he’s looking forward to playing in Oxford.
Beth Fairbairn
Beth is 22 and has been playing the violin since she was 3, having been inspired by a fiddler at a Scottish dance. Her fiddling debut came at the Newcastle festival 2013, where she had a solo in the display section. Beth has continued to play at Newcastle for the international team, both live and recorded, and in 2026 played for some of the social dances during the day. Now a finalist, Beth decided that a dissertation was simply not enough to occupy her Easter holiday, so playing at spring fling was the obvious choice to make her life more exciting. She is absolutely ecstatic to be playing alongside her best friend, and hopes you enjoy some of the bonkers tunes they have picked out to perform.
Antonia McClintock
Despite having played the piano since she was 5, Antonia didn't start dancing until 2022, when she was invited to a Scottish Dancing Birthday Party. She had no idea what she was in for, but ended up at Summer School shortly afterwards and she absolutely loved it. While at university in Oxford she ended up as President of the student Scottish Dance Society. After attending the musician's course at Summer School in 2025 she fell in love with playing for Scottish Country Dancing, and now regularly plays for RSCDS London Branch Classes. She has also played in Lueneburg for the German Young Dancer's weekend, and often plays with friend and fiddle player Beth Fairbairn. She is looking forward to playing for her first official RSCDS event.
