Lowland Wedding or the Village dance

Paintings were made of scenes of rural life particularly by artists such as Breughel and Teniers and they were in a contemporary European fashion for illustrating and sometimes parodying village life. They usually always showed musicians playing bagpipe and hurdy gurdy in the midst of typical traditional pastimes and festivals. In this period the bagpipe was more widely played throughout Europe.

This scene of the Lowland wedding shows the piper in tartan trews playing for the beginning of the dancing led by the bridal couple, the wedding party having come from the kirk shown in the background of the picture.

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