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

For The Beauty Of The Earth
For The Beauty Of The Earth / 77 77 77 / Folliot Sandford Pierpoint (1835 - 1917) / 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

More
We Plough The Fields And Scatter
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

More
When The Starlight Fades
Richard M S Irwin (b. 1955) / 87 87 / Anonymous / Candlemas - Presentation of Christ in the Temple / Evensong / General / Harvest Festival / Hymn / Morning Prayer / Richard Irwin Original / 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

More
Come Ye Thankful People
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

More
For The Healing Of The Nations
For The Healing Of The Nations / 87 87 87 / Anonymous / Ash Wednesday / 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 ©

More
The Beauty Of The Earth
For The Beauty Of The Earth / 2023 / 77 77 77 / England's Lane / Folliot Sandford Pierpoint (1835 - 1917) / 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

More
Come Ye Thankful People
Hymn / 77 77 D / Come Ye Thankful People Come / George Job Elvey (1816 - 1893) / Harvest Festival / Henry Alford (1810 - 1871) / 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

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

More
Angel Voices Ever Singing
Hymn / 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 / 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

More