Harvest Field, The Item Info
- Title:
- Harvest Field, The
- Sound Cloud:
- Description:
- I had a scratchy old 78 RPM recording of a band from Boston and could barely identify the tune they were playing. I believe the person playing the accordion on the track was Billy Caples, a well-known Boston accordion player and teacher. I sent it to Baltimore to Billy McComiskey. He and flutist Laura Byrne learned the tune and made this recording with Donna Long playing the piano: shades of Boston's Dudley Street dance halls in the 1950s.
- Publisher:
- Séamus Connolly, Boston College Libraries
- Creator:
- McComiskey, Billy Byrne, Laura Long, Donna
- Type:
- Some transcriptions are based on historical source recordings. More info.
- Subjects:
- Folk dance music Accordion music Flute music Flings Caples, Billy
- Playlist:
- Playlist 04
- Collection:
- Flings
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- McComiskey, Billy ;Byrne, Laura ;Long, Donna, "Harvest Field, The", The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, accessed June 4, 2025, https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/416.html.
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/416.html
Rights
- Rights:
- This website was created through a partnership with Séamus Connolly and the Boston College Libraries (2016). All materials on this site may be freely shared and adapted according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.