MacPherson, Archie

Dancing master from South Uist.

Learned solo step dances from Ewan MacLachlan by watching older boys and men who had attended Ewan’s classes and copying them as he was too young to attend the classes himself.

Archie MacPherson knew he following solo dances:

Blue Bonnets
First of August
Flowers of Edinburgh
Highland Laddie
Over the Water to Charlie
Tulloch Gorm

He is known to have taught the following individuals:

John McLeod

information derived from an interview by Tom Flett with John McLeod on 12/4/1953.