Fairport Convention - The Hiring Fair video free download

terri purcell

Still sounds great even better in fact

Maurizio Greco

buonasera con i fairport convention con una delle loro perle

bill snooks

The last time I saw Fairport was in Melbourne in a tiny venue on Collins Street...they played Hiring Fair and it has remained one of my all time favourite songs....works just as well with mandolin...guitar or fiddle....beautiful song

Albions Musicks

This song does belong in the soundtrack of a film adaption of a Thomas Hardy novel, it does have that "Wessex feel" to it.

HogwashMcTurnip

The visuals go so well with the song, thank you. And Dave Swarbrick is still God! Lol

Portcullis

Fabulous song.I remember seeing Fairport play this at Cropredy in the early 1990s (probably 1993) just as dusk was falling and a huge yellow late summer moon was rising.Just magical.

TheEpona92

Heard this on The Thistle & Shamrock on NPR earlier this year, sat in my car in the parking lot with the radio on, and closed my eyes to listen. It was amazing...

Paul Lavan

Thanks, Ralph. As mesmerising as it always has been. I just hang on every word.

Bradley Lyndon Hollowniczky

*The Hiring Fair* by *Ralph McTell* as performed by *Fairport Convention*An absolutely lovely song with an even more lovely story behind it...Hiring fairs were traditional gatherings before the advent of employment agencies and were the primary source of labour in rural communities during the 18th and 19th centuries. The song concerns the budding romance of a young couple who met at one such fair and were chosen to work for the same farmer. Ralph McTell, a legendary singer/songwriter from the English folk tradition, wrote the song purely as fiction, but after one of his first performances a woman came up to him and said that her own grandparents had met in exactly the way described in the song! This is a terrific version by folk-rock legends Fairport Convention who have been active since 1967, still perform and host the Cropredy Festival, the largest and most popular folk festival in Europe. I was fortunate enough to attend in 1991 and spent the two weeks leading up to the festival following the band around and attending their warm ups. I was also on a team which beat them at an outdoor pub game called "Yer Aunt Sally" (I threw the winning shot!) but that's another story! :)

promerops

The violin playing puts me very much in mind of Shakti - especially the album 'A Handful of Beauty'.

promerops

Beautiful playing. Beautiful performance.

john haines

What ? We don't get to see him touching her breast ? Damn it.

terri purcell

Still sounds great we don't hear it often enough

fabcillo

Wonderful version of a great Fairport's ballad. And wonderful video, too.

TDRScooters

I was there. and yes I do feel lucky :-) now I can link this to several friends so thank you for posting.

Isi arjona

impresionante cancion.

Larry Byrne

A beautiful version of a beautiful song.....

Leonard Govenettio

I love this song, really evokes a beautiful beautiful thing ...

operalover67

is the girl therein nastassja kinski?

operalover67

bellissima...dolcissima...bellissima nastassja kinski...è lei?

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