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Kintra: Harvest knots and hedgerows down the Ards Peninsula and what exactly is ‘”Grass Rock”?

Harvest knots and hedgerows down the Ards Peninsula and what exactly is ‘”Grass Rock”?

BBC Radio Ulster - Kintra, Harvest knots and hedgerows down the Ards Peninsula and what exactly is ‘”Grass Rock”?

Harvest knots and hedgerows and the roots of Hayseed Dixie’s music.

An autumnal hoke in the hedgerows, the skill of harvest knots and a chat about the roots of Hayseed Dixie’s “Grass Rock”.

With the harvest in for another year, Sheena McCullough grabs a few stalks to talk Jonnie Crawford through the traditional skill of harvest knots.  
Gibson Young heads for a hoke in the hedgerows with homesteader Davy Thompson and Rab Lennox talks to Hayseed Dixie’s front man John Wheeler about “Grass Rock” and the roots of the music.
Listeners are welcome to contact Helen and the Kintra team with a yarn or song or poem to share or an Ulster-Scots event to promote or even just to say hello and comment on the programme. Why not get in touch at kintra@bbc.co.uk.



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