Lady Charlotte Campbell's Medley
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Lady Charlotte Campbell's Medley A forty-eight bar Reel for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell. Published in Whetherly Book 5.1- 4 First couple join both hands and dance down the middle for four slip steps, then slip up the middle.
5- 8 First couple set, then releasing hands cast off into second place, second couple step up on bars 7 & 8.
9-16 First couple turn with the right hand for four bars, then turn with the left hand to finish facing their first corners. Meanwhile, second and third couples dance rights and lefts.
17-20 First couple turn their first corners with the right hand and finish facing their second corners.
21-24 First couple dance a half a reel of three with their corners, passing their second corner by the left shoulder to commence.
25-28 First couple turn their second corners (now in first corner position) by the right hand to finish facing their first corner (in second corner position).
29-32 First couple dance a half a reel of three with their corners, passing their first corners by the left shoulder to commence.
33-40 Six hands round to the left in a circle and back to the right.
41-44 All three couples advance and retire.
45-48 First couple turn with the right hand one and a half times to finish in second place on own side of the set.
Repeat from second place, on the last four bars of the repeat cross over giving right hand and cast to the foot of the set.
Recommended tune: Lady Charlotte Campbell's Medley
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 5, by John W Mitchell, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell; instructions reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-ND 4.0).