Campbeltown Loch
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
CAMPBELTOWN LOCH (J4x48) 4C set Roy Clowes Ormskirk Book 12 chords, on 2nd chord 1s+2s also 3+4s move to Glasgow Highlanders position
1- 8 All advance and retire, cross RH and turn partners LH to form 2 lines of 4 across, 1s to the left facing 3s, 2s to the right facing 4s (Ladies on Men's right)
9-16 All advance and retire, cross RH and turn partners LH to longways set - 4s in top places (Man's side) facing 3s, 2s (Man's side) facing 1s (Ladies on Men's right)
17-24 4s+3s and 2s+1s dance RH across and LH back
25-32 3s+2s dance diagonal reel of 4
33-40 4s+1s dance Ladies' Chain
41-48 3s+4s and 1s+2s dance ½ R&L and 3s+2s dance ½ diagonal reel of 4 All end 1 place anticlockwise round set) (Original version)
41-48 3s+4s and 1s+2s dance ½ R&L, 3s+2s dance change places diagonal RH and change with partners LH on sides (Popular version)
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
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Campbeltown Loch - Scottish Country Dancing Instruction VideoDance Information
Campbeltown Loch is a small sea loch near the south of the Kintyre Peninsula facing eastwards towards the Firth of Clyde.The town of Campbeltown, from which it takes its name, is located at its head. The island of Davaar is located in the loch, and can be reach by foot along a natural shingle causeway at low tide. Oddly, while in English the Loch takes its name from Campbeltown, in Gaelic, Campbeltown takes its name from the loch - "Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain".
The loch is immortalised in the folk song of the same name, Campbeltown Loch - Song, repopularized by Andy Stewart in the 1960s.
In the song the writer, Alan Cameron, expresses his desire that the loch be full of whisky. The basis of that ballad is that Campbeltown was originally a centre of whisky distilling but that the price of whisky in Campbeltown itself was too high.
Oh! Campbeltown Loch, Ah wish ye were whisky!
Campbeltown Loch, Och Aye!
Campbeltown Loch, I wish ye were whisky!
Ah wid drink ye dry.
Andy Stewart also recounts an interesting story - see the information videos linked below.
Campbeltown Loch Song - Information Video
Campbeltown Loch
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