Sound Recordings, Great Britain and Ireland

Description

Soundtrack of a BBC One television programme, 'Here We Come A-Wassailing', broadcast on the 22 December 1977 at 22:20 [this copy recorded direct from the television]. Incomplete copy of a programme which looks at Christmas and New Year customs in Great Britain and Ireland. Actuality interspersed with male narrator relating the histories/descriptions of the customs. Television announcement; wassailing an apple tree; wassail song (unidentified folk group); burning the ashen faggot; Christmas Eve carolling in Dunster ; the Wren Boys, Listowel (Ireland) and hunting the wren custom on St. Stephen's Day - music, dance, now a house visiting event, collecting for charity; Jack Carroll sings Boys of ?; the Marshfield Mummers, Marshfield (Gloucestershire); the Mari Llwyd, New Year's night house visiting custom in Wales, which includes a hobby horse and sung exchanges (in Welsh); wassail song [incomplete], Drayton in Somerset. [Tape track starts mid-programme] The singing of 'John Barleycorn' before the Haxey Hood, followed by a description of the custom, the Fool's speech, the sound of the sway, the singing of 'Farmer's Boy'; Plough Sunday service and blessing the plough in Goathland (North Yorkshire); Plough Monday Plough Stotts performance in Goathland and environs, including Beck Hole; January 10th, Burghead [tape ends]. 38 of 39.

Metadata

Identifier sjqh1dvc
IRN 414584
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A533r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/sjqh1dvc
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Harrop, Peter K
Date [1970s]
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 37' 11".

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