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Kate Rusby's Yorkshire Christmas

Kate Rusby performs festive Yorkshire songs and carols in a concert from Victoria Hall in Leeds, introduced by Kathryn Tickell.

Kate Rusby performs festive Yorkshire songs and carols in a concert from Victoria Hall in Leeds, introduced by Kathryn Tickell. For two hundred years, Yorkshire has had its very own Christmas carol tradition, centred on village pubs, and with its own versions of well-known carols, some of which were frowned upon by the church in Victorian times as ‘too happy’. Kate Rusby grew up in this tradition, and has been sharing it for the past fifteen years with audiences across the UK in her annual Christmas tours.

For this concert she is joined by her husband Damien O’Kane on guitar, Steven Byrnes on bouzouki, Nick Cooke playing diatonic accordion, and Duncan Lyall on double bass, together with the Brass Boys quintet.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 21 Dec 2019 16:00

Music Played

  • Trad.

    Hark Hark

    Music Arranger: Kate Rusby. Music Arranger: Damien O’Kane.
  • Trad.

    Sweet Chiming Bells

    Music Arranger: Kate Rusby. Ensemble: Kate Rusby & Band.
  • Trad.

    Here We Come A-Wassailing

    Music Arranger: Kate Rusby. Ensemble: Kate Rusby & Band.
  • Trad.

    Sunny Bank

    Music Arranger: Kate Rusby. Ensemble: Kate Rusby & Band.
  • Gustav Holst

    Bleak Midwinter

    Music Arranger: Kate Rusby. Music Arranger: Damien O’Kane. Ensemble: Kate Rusby & Band.
  • David Myles

    Santa Never Brings me a Banjo

    Ensemble: Kate Rusby & Band.
  • Trad.

    Deck the Halls

    Music Arranger: Kate Rusby. Music Arranger: Damien O’Kane. Ensemble: Kate Rusby & Band.
  • Trad.

    Salute the Morn

    Music Arranger: Kate Rusby. Ensemble: Kate Rusby & Band.
  • Trad.

    Hail Chime On

    Music Arranger: Kate Rusby. Ensemble: Kate Rusby & Band.
  • Trad.

    Yorkshire Merry Christmas

    Music Arranger: Kate Rusby. Music Arranger: Damien O’Kane. Ensemble: Kate Rusby & Band.
  • Traditional

    Sweet Bells

    Music Arranger: Kate Rusby. Singer: Kate Rusby. Ensemble: Various artists.

Broadcast

  • Sat 21 Dec 2019 16:00

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