Harvest Festival

Harvest Festival is a celebration of gifts of food grown through the summer months that will keep the people fed through the dark days of winter and until new crops are available in the following spring.

Thanksgiving ceremonies and celebrations for a successful harvest are both worldwide and very ancient. In Britain, we have given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times. We celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating our churches with baskets of fruit and food in a festival known as ‘Harvest Festival’, usually during the month of September.

Suggested Hymns

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30th July 2018 77 77 77 / Folliot Sandford Pierpoint (1835 - 1917) / For The Beauty Of The Earth / Harvest Festival / Heathlands / Henry Thomas Smart (1813-1879) / Hymn / Lower Key / Mothering Sunday / Mothers' Day / Organ / TBR / Thanksgiving Day Canada / Traditional English / Year A Easter 3 / Year A Thanksgiving Day USA / Year B Proper 5, Ordinary 10, Trinity 1 / Year B Thanksgiving Day USA / Year C Proper 17, Ordinary 22, Trinity 11

For The Beauty Of The Earth (Heathlands, Organ, 4 Verses)

Other settings of For The Beauty Of The Earth. For The Beauty Of The Earth : Heathlands Recording Tune: Heathlands, composed

3rd July 2018 76 76 D and Refrain / Brass Band / Harvest Festival / Hymn / Jane Montgomery Campbell (1817-1878) / Johann Abraham Schulz (1747-1800) / John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876) / Lower Key / Matthias Claudius (1740-1815) / Richard M S Irwin (b. 1955) / Thanksgiving Day Canada / Traditional English / Traditional German / Wir Pflügen / Year A Easter 6 / Year A Proper 17, Ordinary 22, Trinity 12, Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Year A Thanksgiving Day USA / Year C Proper 17, Ordinary 22, Trinity 11

We Plough The Fields And Scatter (Wir Pflügen, Brass Band, 3 Verses)

We Plough The Fields And Scatter : Recording Tune: Wir Pflügen, composed by Johann Abraham Schulz (1747-1800) and harmonised by

26th April 2018 87 87 / Anonymous / Candlemas - Presentation of Christ in the Temple / Evensong / General / Harvest Festival / Hymn / Morning Prayer / Richard Irwin Original / Richard M S Irwin (b. 1955) / Stenka Razin / Volga Mat’ Rodnaya / Year A Proper 6, Ordinary 11, Trinity 2

When The Starlight Fades (Volga Mat’ Rodnaya, Piano Ensemble, 4 Verses)

When The Starlight Fades : Recording Tune: Volga, Volga Mat’ Rodnaya (Волга, Волга мать родная) a traditional Russian melody arrangement

13th January 2018 Brass Band / Come Ye Thankful People Come / George Job Elvey (1816 - 1893) / Harvest Festival / Henry Alford (1810 - 1871) / Hymn / Matthew 13:24-30 / St George's Windsor / Thanksgiving Day Canada / Year A Proper 11, Ordinary 16 Trinity 6 / Year A Thanksgiving Day USA / Year B Epiphany 3 / Year C Proper 19, Ordinary 24, Trinity 23

Come Ye Thankful People (Saint George’s Windsor, Brass Band, 4 Verses)

Alternative settings of Come Ye Thankful People. Come Ye Thankful People, Brass Band : Recording Tune: Saint George’s Windsor, composed

13th January 2018 8 10 9 66 66 / Communion/Eucharist / Harvest Festival / Hymn / John 12:24 / Kevin Mayhew Ltd / Susan Sayers (b. 1946) / Traditional English / Year B Palm Sunday - Liturgy of The Palms and Liturgy of The Passion / Year B Proper 12, Ordinary 17, Trinity 8

Farmer Farmer Why Do You Plough (Small Band, 4 Verses)

Farmer Farmer Why Do You Plough Lyrics We regret that we are unable to publish the lyrics to this hymn

20th April 2017 87 87 87 / Anonymous / Ash Wednesday / For The Healing Of The Nations / Fred Kaan (1929-2009) / General / Harvest Festival / Hymn / Picardy / Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday / Stainer and Bell Ltd / Traditional French / Year A Advent 1 / Year A Epiphany 4 - Presentation of Christ in the Temple / Year C Proper 20, Ordinary 25, Trinity 14 / Year C Proper 21, Ordinary 26, Trinity 25 / Year C Proper 28, Ordinary 33, 2nd Sunday Before Advent / Year C Proper 7, Ordinary 12, Trinity 1 / Year C Proper 8, Ordinary 13, Trinity 2

For The Healing Of The Nations (Picardy, Organ, 4 Verses)

For The Healing Of The Nations : Picardy, Recording Tune: Picardy, a Traditional French melody (Public Domain) in an arrangement ©

20th April 2017 2023 / 77 77 77 / England's Lane / Folliot Sandford Pierpoint (1835 - 1917) / For The Beauty Of The Earth / Geoffrey Turton Shaw (1879 - 1943) / Harvest Festival / Hymn / Thanksgiving Day Canada / Traditional English / Year A Thanksgiving Day USA / Year C Proper 17, Ordinary 22, Trinity 11

For The Beauty Of The Earth (England’s Lane, Organ, 5 Verses)

Other settings of The Beauty Of The Earth For The Beauty Of The Earth : England’s Lane Recording Tune: England’s Lane, composed

18th April 2017 77 77 D / Come Ye Thankful People Come / George Job Elvey (1816 - 1893) / Harvest Festival / Henry Alford (1810 - 1871) / Hymn / Matthew 13:24-30 / St George's Windsor / Thanksgiving Day Canada / Year A Thanksgiving Day USA / Year B Epiphany 3 / Year C Proper 19, Ordinary 24, Trinity 23

Come Ye Thankful People (Saint George’s Windsor, Organ, 4 Verses)

Alternative settings of Come Ye Thankful People. Come Ye Thankful People, Organ : Recording Tune: Saint George’s Windsor, composed by

12th April 2017 Church Militant / CM / Epiphany / General / Harvest Festival / Hymn / Richmond / Samuel Johnson (1822-1882) / TBR / Thomas Haweis (1734-1820) / Year A Epiphany 5 / Year A Proper 24, Ordinary Time 29, Trinity 19 / Year A Proper 4, Ordinary 9 / Year B Proper 9, Ordinary 14, Trinity 5 / Year C All Saints' Day / Year C Easter 6 - Sixth Sunday of Easter / Year C Epiphany 4 - Presentation of Christ in the Temple

City Of God, How Broad And Far (Richmond, Organ, 5 Verses)

City Of God, How Broad And Far : Recording Tune: Richmond, composed by Thomas Haweis (1734-1820). Public Domain Meter: CM.

16th March 2017 85 85 843 / Angel-Voices / Ascension Day / Candlemas - Presentation of Christ in the Temple / Carols / Easter Vigil / Edwin George Monk (1819-1900) / Epiphany / Francis Pott (1832-1909) / General / Harvest Festival / Hymn / Michaelmas Day / Year A Christmas 1 / Year A Feast of Christ The King / Year A Lent 3 / Year A Pentecost, Whit Sunday / Year A Proper 18, Ordinary 23, Trinity 13 / Year A Second Sunday Before Advent / Year B Christmas 1 / Year B Epiphany 5 / Year B Epiphany 5, 2nd Sunday Before Lent / Year B Pentecost, Whit Sunday / Year B Proper 15, Ordinary 20, Trinity 11 / Year B Proper 16, Ordinary 21, Trinity 12 / Year B Proper 19, Ordinary 24, Trinity 15 / Year C All Saints' Day / Year C Christmas 1 / Year C Easter 3 / Year C Pentecost, Whit Sunday

Angel Voices Ever Singing (Angel Voices, Organ, 5 Verses)

Angel Voices Ever Singing : Recording Tune: Angel Voices composed by Edwin George Monk (1819-1900). Public Domain. Performance ℗ 2020 Richard