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Description: | Song describing the rowdy wedding celebrations at the Anchor public house.This song gives a vivid description of a local wedding. The wedding couple, who having been disappointed at the turn out of guests, call upon local fiddler Rowley to draw a crowd. Rowley entertains the guests with tunes such as 'Paddy's Wedding' and 'Young Jock of the Green' and the couple are eventually wed, much to the detriment of the bride. Weddings and other celebrations would have been typical of the type of venue local musicians like Rowley or John Peacock, would have played.This song was written to the tune 'Blue Breeches' a popular reel. 'The Respectable Wedding' is part of the John Bell Collection. ; A collection of broadsheets on various subjects, with accompanying press cuttings and manuscript notes in the hand of John Bell. | Publisher: | J. Marshall Newcastle upon Tyne | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle University | Subjects: | marriage and courtship & festivities weddings & celebrations & love Love | Temporal: | start=1801;end=1840; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:N0103401 | Go to resource |
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