Annotation:Colonel Campbell of Shawfield's Strathspey
COLONEL CAMPBELL OF SHAWFIELD'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Colonel Campbell of Shawfield's Strathsey" was composed by Edinburgh fiddler-composer and bandleader biography:Robert Mackintosh (c. 1745-1808) and named for Colonel wikipedia:John Campbell (1770-1809) of Shawfield and Islay, a Scottish soldier and briefly a politician. In 1796 he married Wikipedia:Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell, daughter of the 5th Duke of Argyll. Twenty years later Islay fiddler composer biography:Alexander Mackay composed several tunes for the next generation of the Campbell family of Islay.
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