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Debs Newbold, Mary Hampton and Dave Price

Late Junction Late Junction Sessions

Presented by Verity Sharp. With Irish Celtic music, plus a special collaboration session featuring storyteller Debs Newbold, singer Mary Hampton and percussionist Dave Price.

Presented by Verity Sharp.

Including a seasonal tune played on the ukulele, Finola o Siochur singing a Christmas song from the Irish Celtic tradition and organist Carleton Etherington playing Von Himmel Hoch by Garth Edmondson. Plus powerful group singing from the congregation of Liberty Baptist Church in Alabama alongside carol singers at the Royal Hotel, Dungworth, near Sheffield.

And in a special collaboration session at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Maida Vale studios, a trio of performers take us on a winter's journey, through song, spoken word and percussion. Traditional storyteller Debs Newbold, folk singer Mary Hampton and experimental percussionist Dave Price weave a rich aural tapestry of sounds, stories and songs, taking fragments from traditional winter tales and adding new material and improvisations to create a unique Christmas Eve soundworld.

The three performers, who have never worked together before, create a modern-day radio ballad, based on a winter theme. Each uses their own speciality, possibly venturing into areas unknown, and draw on traditional pagan winter stories and folk songs about the frosty season, combining fragments of these with experimental and perhaps theatrical percussion.

Debs Newbold is a renowned storyteller and cabaret performer, who has long been telling tales from her Anglo-Irish family, and is currently the English Folk Dance and Song Society's storyteller-in-residence at Cecil Sharp House in London. Mary Hampton is a young folk singer from Brighton, whose enchanting and often eerie folk singing mixes the traditional with the new. Percussionist and composer Dave Price is a member of the Nozferatu collective and works with the Gecko physical theatre company as well as pursuing various other projects, involving artists such as Regina Spektor, Gwyneth Herbert and Aqualung.

1 hour, 45 minutes

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Christmas Eve 2009 23:15
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Lyman

    Mele Kalikimaka

    Performers: Arthur Lyman

    • Merry Readymade (To Whom It May Concern).
    • Readymade.

  • Trad

    Sleigh Ride

    Arranger: Coconami Performers: Coconami

    • Wish You Too.
    • Trikont US 0387.

  • Radian

    Git Cut Derivat

    Performers: Radian

    • Chimeric.
    • Thrill Jockey Thrill CD 224.

  • Anon

    Anon - The Farmer

    Arranger: Carr/Wood/Cutting/Tweed Performers: Two Duos

  • Change Ringing

    Bristol Surprise Maximus

    Performers: The Change Ringing Handbell Group

    • Change Ringing on Handbells.
    • Saydisc CD SDL 310.

  • Trad

    Jag haver ingen kärare

    Arranger: Haltli Performers: Frode Haltli (accordion), Arve Henriksen (trumpet), Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, (voice), Garth Knox (viola)

    • Passing Images.
    • ECM 1913 985 6022.

  • Dhuibhir

    A Dhia na Nollag

    Performers: Finola Ó Siochrú

    • Solas Na Soilse.
    • Foras na Gaeilge FOSCD002.

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    Horizontigo

    Performers: Lau

    • Arc Light.
    • Navigator 20.

  • Debs Newbold, Mary Hampton & Dave Price Session

    • Debs Newbold, Mary Hampton & Dave Price

      "A Midwinter Tale"

      • Recorded 27th November 2009.

  • Edmondson

    Von Himmel Hoch

    Performers: Carleton Etherington (organ)

    • The Three Kings.
    • Delphian DCD34047.

  • Max Reger

    The Virgin's Slumber Song

    Performers: Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum

    • The Three Kings.
    • Delphian DCD34047.

  • Dissard/Sanchez

    Je et Tu No Croient plus au Père Noel

    Performers: Marianne Dissard & Amparo Sanchez

    • Wish You Too.
    • Trikont US 0387.

  • °Õ³ó´Ç³¾±è²õ´Ç²Ô/°¿â€™R´Ç³Ü°ù°ì±ð

    Glencoe

    Performers: Richard Thompson

    • Grizzly Man.
    • Cooking Vinyl CookCD360.

  • Trad

    The Bible's Right

    Performers: Sister O. M. Terrell

    • Goodbye, Babylon.
    • Dust to Digital.

  • Hamrick

    Lloyd 503

    Performers: Liberty Baptist Church

    • Awake My Soul.
    • Awake Productions.

  • Trad

    Swaledale

    Performers: Billy Mills & carol singers at the Royal Hotel, Dungworth

    • Hark, Hark! What News.
    • Village Carols VC009.

  • Mann

    Blooming Youth 176b

    Arranger: Gellert/Jones Performers: Rayna Gellert & John Paul Jones

    • Awake My Soul.
    • Awake Productions.

  • Animal Collective

    Two Sails on a Sound

    Performers: Animal Collective

    • Here comes the Indian.
    • Paw Track PAW001.

Broadcast

  • Christmas Eve 2009 23:15
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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