Reform Movement Music

[John Masciale]

I will be playing this weekend at the Clark House Museum in Chicago.  The Clark house is the oldest residence still standing in the city, it predates the fire.  They are having a family day event that focuses on reform movements of the day.  So I have to play reform movement music, predominantly temperance, and abolition songs.

Included in what I am playing are:

Come Home Father
Wild Rover
Darling Nelly Gray
Mary Blane (W. German's lyrics)
The Slave's Lament (Tune: Long Long Ago)
The Total Siety (a parody on temperance)

and a few Abolition hymns.

 

What a depressing bunch of songs!  They are enough to drive a man to drink!

Does anybody have any other suggestions?

[John Masciale]

So I'll be sitting in a public park playing protest songs...

[Joel Hooks]

Kingdom Coming?

[Mark Weems]

John, Comrades Fill No Glass For Me (1855), is one of my favorite Stephen Foster melodies. YOu could give that one a try.

[Al Smitley]

Comrades Fill No Glass For Me is also one of my favorites.  Foster's father took the temperance pledge a decade or two earlier.

[John Masciale]

Comrades Fill No Glass for Me, what a great tune!  I've never really heard it before, but I do have in in one of my Foster books.  Thanks for the suggestion!

[Wes Merchant]

You may already have this, The Anti Slavery Harp, it lists popular tunes that go with the words

http://archive.org/stream/antislaveryharpc00brow#page/n3/mode/2up

I also came across this sometime back and thought it an interesting song:

[John Masciale]

Thanks everyone.

It was a really nice event, I always like having an excuse to add to my repertoire.