Live in My Living Room
Jan. 24th, 2021 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustAnother week gone round ('Groundhog weeks' said someone I was talking to) and tonight there'll be a Hove Pavillion session with Robb Johnson, hooray!
Last week's concert was from Martin Carthy, courtesy of Live to Your Living Room. I've seen Martin Carthy in all sorts of venues, pubs and town halls and Cecil Sharp House and theatres and a launderette, but the fist time was in my living room - back when he was a regular on Sunday evening television's 'Hallelujah (photo!). The difference is that this time he was broadcasting direct to my living room from his own ...
The domestic setting suited what was a very informal session. Yet another reminder that people's lives have their own complications, pandemic or no: he explained that he has not been making much music in the last year, because he has been looking after Norma (who, if I understood correctly, has now had an operation and is feeling better - but not necessarily needing less attention as a result). Now he was happy to be picking up his guitar and his voice again, and relearn his repertoire, and it was lovely to hear him doing that, but he was indisputably rusty. His voice lacked strength and range (though I thought he sounded better at the end of the evening than at the beginning); several times he had to try again to get the words into the right verses, an. once hit a brick wall, and had to restart the entire song (in Scarborough Fair of all things, though a slightly different version).
Despite this, and despite some internet failure along the way, the evening provided some very fine music - and the hope of more.
Last week's concert was from Martin Carthy, courtesy of Live to Your Living Room. I've seen Martin Carthy in all sorts of venues, pubs and town halls and Cecil Sharp House and theatres and a launderette, but the fist time was in my living room - back when he was a regular on Sunday evening television's 'Hallelujah (photo!). The difference is that this time he was broadcasting direct to my living room from his own ...
The domestic setting suited what was a very informal session. Yet another reminder that people's lives have their own complications, pandemic or no: he explained that he has not been making much music in the last year, because he has been looking after Norma (who, if I understood correctly, has now had an operation and is feeling better - but not necessarily needing less attention as a result). Now he was happy to be picking up his guitar and his voice again, and relearn his repertoire, and it was lovely to hear him doing that, but he was indisputably rusty. His voice lacked strength and range (though I thought he sounded better at the end of the evening than at the beginning); several times he had to try again to get the words into the right verses, an. once hit a brick wall, and had to restart the entire song (in Scarborough Fair of all things, though a slightly different version).
Despite this, and despite some internet failure along the way, the evening provided some very fine music - and the hope of more.
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