Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - Harvest and harvest customs, especially the harvest home dan...
Contributors - Helen Galloway
Reporters - Prof. John MacQueen

Summary - Harvest and harvest customs, especially the harvest home dance.

Helen Galloway reminisces about harvest time. She talks about how the sheaves were bound, food and drink in the harvest field, carting with horses, and the art of building stacks. The harvest home dance on the bigger farms was called the 'kirn'. It was usually held in the barn, with two fiddlers and sometimes a piano. There were country dances such as quadrilles, lancers, Petronella, the Military Two-Step, and the Dashing White Sergeant, as well as waltzes and heavy dances such as the Scots Reel and Eightsome Reel. Foxtrots and two-steps came in after the First World War. At kirns sentimental songs were sung. People danced until two in the morning then rose at half past four for milking.

Corn dollies are a new thing, but harvesters used to make corn badges to wear in their buttonholes.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:04:54
Date Recorded - 1972
Language - English
Genre - Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 62743
Original Tape ID - SA1972.151
Original Track ID - SA1972.151.A9
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R



Recording Location:
  County - Wigtownshire
  Parish - Kirkmaiden
  Village - Port Logan


Item Location:
  County - Wigtownshire
  Parish - Kirkmaiden
  Village - Port Logan

Item Notes -

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/62743/1


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