Parks Of Lochabers
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Parks Of Lochabers A thirty-two bar Reel for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 11.1- 8 First and third couples dance a half reel of four progression (turn three quarters with right hand, half reel of four and turn to own side).
9-16 Six hands round to the left in a circle and back to the right.
17-24 Third couple set, cross over giving right hand and cast off into third place, cross back to own side giving left hand and finish facing out; second and first couples step up on bars 21 & 22.
25-32 Second, first and third couples dance reels of three on own side of the set; to commence first couple dance in and down.
Repeat from second place. Recommended tune: Parks of Lochabers
(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 11, 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).
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