Thornhill Country Dancers 

Penpont is proud to claim Sinclair Barbour as its own since he and many of his dancers attended PenpontSchool. There they were first introduced to Scottish Country Dancing and there Sinclair led the first mixed team in 1970. He then danced for WallaceHallAcademy under the tutelage of the legendary Bill Clement, a former piper to the Duke of Atholl.

 For the past 20 years Sinclair has taught dancing in Thornhill and enters many successful school and adult teams in Festivals as far away as Edinburgh and Newcastle.

 With the help of Pat Menzies, Shona Dalgleish and Shaun Glendinning, all founder members of the Thornhill dancers, Sinclair has taken many teams abroad to several European countries as well as the far East.

 Last summer they were invited by the Chinese government along with Willie Prentice,their longstanding piper, and the Robert Menzies Scottish Dance Band to perform in Shanghai. In the coming months the dancers will visit Belgium and Syria.

Sinclair, who qualified as a Scottish Country Dance teacher in 1988, has travelled to Washington, Florida and as far as Japan to share his expertise.