Fiddling the Day Away Series: "Irish Quickstep"
Join the Frontier Culture Museum on our Scotts-Irish Farm for our new series: Fiddling the Day Away. Join some of our talented musicians as they explore songs from across time to see how music changes depending on the place and context it was being played.
Our first song is a Quickstep. The best way to think of the Quickstep is like a jingle for a regiment. Many military regiments in the 18th and 19th centuries were self-recruiting. This means they were responsible for getting men to sign up for their regiment, the government did not assign recruits to specific units. One of the ways that regiments identified themselves as they were coming into town was through the marching music they played.
This song is an example of one of those songs from the 17th Regiment who recruited in Ireland. Echoes of this song can still be heard today through fife and drum music. We hope that you enjoy!
About the Frontier Culture Museum:
The Frontier Culture Museum is a living history museum located in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. It tells the story of the thousands of immigrants who traveled from their native homelands to the Shenandoah Valley and how the culture evolved from the 1740s to the 1850s.
Visit the museum online at www.frontiermuseum.org
