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“THE VILLAGE ALE HOUSE” by Joseph Grozer after Henry Bunbury, Published by William Dickinson 1787 (Colonial Williamsburg)

a group of people playing instruments in a living room

Celebrating National Fiddling Day with family event filled with music

Island fiddlers and fiddle fans will be celebrating National Fiddling Day with a family celebration on Saturday afternoon in the Pourhouse, upstairs at the Old Triangle Irish Alehouse in Charlottetown. The all-ages afternoon event will include a jam session, concert and square dance.

a drawing of a man and woman dancing in a room with other people standing around

THE FLOWING CAN Publish'd 21st April 1791 by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London Sailors carouse in an alehouse. In the foreground , a sailor in stripped trousers dances with a young girl, accompanied by a fiddler sitting while another man beside him hoists a punch bowl. Two other sailors sit back against the wall looking on, while another kisses a woman in the background. In front of them, a portly man sits smoking a clay pipe as he hoists a rotund ale cannister. Above the revelers…