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shewhomust) wrote2018-12-14 08:07 am
shewhomust) wrote2018-12-14 08:07 am
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We saw this Chrismas show at Cecil Sharp House last night; the band don't seem to have their own website, perhaps because they are an alliance of two bands, Lady Maisery (Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans and Hazel Askew) and Jimmy and Sid (Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith). boybear suggested we go, with some hesitation but arguing that it's harder to go wrong with this kind of material.
Which is pretty much how it turned out. I liked the (Yorkshire, a capella) carols, and a nice sequence from Shetland fiddle tune Da Day Dawn (played by Rowan Rheingans) to Hazel Askew singing The snow it melts the soonest. I wish Jimmy Aldridge hadn't interposed a poem between them - 'The Thrush'? I felt I ought to recognise it, but didn't. In general, I wish they had given sources for all the spoken pieces. Oh, and we were invited to get very excited about the banjo duet (Rowan and Jimmy) on Please to see the King with much explaining of why the wren is the king of birds, and how there are many versions of this song, and this one came from Pembrokeshire - it seems to have passed very close to Steeleye Span in transit (the words were not identical, but close, and the tune was closer).
I wouldn't rush to see either band again, but I'm glad to have seen the show, and found much to enjoy in it. and C# house had a little exhibition of prints by David Owen, which was a bonus.
boybear suggested we go, with some hesitation but arguing that it's harder to go wrong with this kind of material.Which is pretty much how it turned out. I liked the (Yorkshire, a capella) carols, and a nice sequence from Shetland fiddle tune Da Day Dawn (played by Rowan Rheingans) to Hazel Askew singing The snow it melts the soonest. I wish Jimmy Aldridge hadn't interposed a poem between them - 'The Thrush'? I felt I ought to recognise it, but didn't. In general, I wish they had given sources for all the spoken pieces. Oh, and we were invited to get very excited about the banjo duet (Rowan and Jimmy) on Please to see the King with much explaining of why the wren is the king of birds, and how there are many versions of this song, and this one came from Pembrokeshire - it seems to have passed very close to Steeleye Span in transit (the words were not identical, but close, and the tune was closer).
I wouldn't rush to see either band again, but I'm glad to have seen the show, and found much to enjoy in it. and C# house had a little exhibition of prints by David Owen, which was a bonus.
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