SOUTHWIND
3/4 (140), (AABB)4, G major four-couple square
Lou Vosteen, 2000.
Music: Domnhall Meirgeach Mac Con Mara (Freckled Donal Macnamara)
Bill Matthiesen, The Waltz Book, I, 1992.

A1 1-2 Heads take partner's hand and balance together to face and apart.
   3-4 Heads chasse to change places with partner (men behind, women in front).
   5-8 Heads separate from partners for half figure-eight through the sides.

A2 1-2 Sides take partner's hand and balance together and away.
   3-4 Sides chasse to change places with partner (men behind, women in front).
   5-8 Sides separate from partners for half figure-eights through the heads.

B1 1-4 Hands-eight, circle left halfway.
   5-8 Open ladies grand chain to opposite.

B2 1-4 Corners back-to-back.
   5-8 Corners face, take inside hands (man's right, woman's left), balance together and
       apart, and woman turn left under the arch in front of the man, to end to his right
       as new partners.

-  The fiddler Junior Crehan (1908-1998) told a story about how the air was learned by the west
Clare musicians. It seems that a ghost ship was bringing back to Ireland the souls of the
Wild Geese (i.e., Irish exiles) who had been killed in battle. As the vessel proceeded around
southwest Cork, it was driven up the west coast by a southern breeze, and the ghosts of the
Wild Geese could be heard chanting this tune, which was picked up by musicians on the coast
of Clare who witnessed the event.

- Joanne Rawls, one of the Williamsburg Heritage Dancers, brought the music to Lou Vosteen
in the fall of 2000 and urged him to write a dance to this tune.

Dances from Barnes Three
Assembled by Robert Messer, January 1, 2015

difficulty: 1
energy