Moston rushcart

Dancer

Collection date: Feb 1908

Area: Lancashire


Moston Rushcart: this North-West morris tune was sent in by Anne Gilchrist 1 Feb 1908: Sharp transcribed the tune into his tunes notebook as FT1583 but his handwriting has been misread as ‘Mastor’ rushcart. Gilchrist eventually published the tune in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society 1 (1927). The tune is from the playing of Smith Williamson. Click vwml link above.

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