Andrew Marston introduces Loula (Kidderminster)
Unsigned, undiscovered & under-the-radar music, as recorded at the Conquest in Bromyard.
β’ With the choir that has written a Christmas carol... just for Hereford!
β’ Catching up with the Worcester musicians whoβve just put out their second Christmas album.
β’ A chat with Kidderminsterβs Bev Bevan, of ELO and The Move fame, about the unsigned Christmas record heβs written with the band Quill.
β’ Worcester's 'Pubarotti' Luke Swatman, previews our Celebration of Christmas at Malvern Theatres.
β’ How your Christmas cards could be helping secure the future of the Malvern church where Sir Edward Elgar was laid to rest.
β’ Sheβs just 17-years-old and has already written more than 40 records. Part two of our live session with Kidderminster soul sensation, Loula, from the Conquest Theatre in Bromyard.
β’ Our month of live music relives some of our highlights from the last 12 months.
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Christmas tracks
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Sylva
Christmas Bells
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Mumbo-Jumbo
Snowflakes As Dawn Breaks
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Tim Brown
Je Ne Sais Pas
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Christmas tracks
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Quill
Ghosts of Christmas
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Going For A Walk And Making A Snowman In A Field
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Peter With Rosie
The Worcestershire Carol
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Phil Hickin
A Day In December
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Emily Ewing
Season Bright (feat. Rob Lane)
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Jigamything
Remember Good King Wenceslas
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Previewing our Celebration of Christmas
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Luke Swatman
Come Away Death
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The Live Music Hour
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Dharma Bums
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Live from the Worcester Christmas Lights)
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Alex Lleo
This Time Last Year (Live from the Worcester Christmas Lights)
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The Woo Town Hillbillies
Merry Xmas (War Is Over) (Live from the Worcester Christmas Lights)
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Matt Sheehan
Last Christmas (Live from the Worcester Christmas Lights)
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Henry
Give My All To You (Live from the Worcester Music Festival)
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Ben Hemming
Dead Man Blues (Live from the Norbury Theatre, Droitwich)
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In session
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Loula
Memory (Live from the Conquest Theatre, Bromyard)
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Loula
Stay Another Day (Live from the Conquest Theatre, Bromyard)
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The Live Music Hour
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Paul Menel
Spanish Maine (Live from the Hay Festival)
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Ben Crosland
Melting Snow (Live from the Hay Festival)
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In session
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The songwriter, from Hartlebury, is now 17-years-old and has penned more than 40 original tracks.
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She's also sung on lo-fi house music and in jazz bands, rock bands and church choirs.
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However, her own musical influences lie in artists such as Lily Allen, Ed Sheeran and James Blunt.
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"One of the finest - if not the finest - soulful voices Iβve heard. To be just 17 and have that many lyrics - a true star in the making.β β Andrew Marston.
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Christmas cards
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The roman catholic church of St Wulstan, in Malvern Wells, is having comprehensive work done to its stonework and stained glass windows.
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The church's Father Edward says it's due to Elgar's wife Alice's affection for St Wulstan's that the family is buried there.
Artist of the Week
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That's what they did last year; they've since made another Christmas album including both standards and new original material, called Nine Lessons.
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Peter has been involved in local bands including And What Will Be Left Of Them? and Hey You Guys! whilst Rosie is a classically trained musician and member of the renowned Basement Orchestera & Stow-Capella Choir.
Quill's Christmas track
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Five years ago, the band took the decision to carry on writing and performing after the death of bassist Ben and complete tracks he had started.
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The band performed some of them when they joined us in session at Kidderminster College earlier this year.
The live music advent calendar
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We won't be playing a single CD, MP3, tape or vinyl - because we're giving you the music you won't be able to get anywhere else on the planet!
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This month, hear tracks performed at the Worcester Music Festival, Ledbury's Market Theatre, Kidderminster College, Gordon Bennett's in Hereford, Malvern Cube, The Railway in Redditch, Lakefest at Eastnor Castle, The Norbury Theatre in Droitwich, The Hay Festival, HopFest near Bewdley, the Conquest in Bromyard and at ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Maida Vale.
Features
- In the news:ΜύMonnow Valley Studios go up for sale.
- In the gig guide:ΜύThe festive gigs in our area.
Pubarotti at Christmas
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Luke is a classical singer influenced by such names as Andrea Bocelli, Barbra Streisand, Elaine Paige, Michael Ball, Russell Watson and his nickname's sake, Pavarotti.
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In March 2018, he performed at Worcester Competitive Arts Festival, taking home several gongs.
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But it wasnβt until a few months later that he came to the attention of the international media after an informal rendition on karaoke of Nessun Dorma at The Eagle Vaults went viral online.
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He was dubbed 'Pubarotti' and the 'new Paul Potts'.ΜύThis year has seen Luke appearing on The Voice UK.
The Hereford Carol
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The Garrick Singers had been due to perform a brand new festive composition in public for the first time this Christmas.Μύ
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Mike Truelove, a member of the group has written The Hereford Carol especially for the choir but their planned performance fell through.
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They're putting out an appeal for another venue to accommodateΜύthem.
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Music Introducing in Bromyard
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If you've only ever driven through the town before, the venue is on what we like to call 'Nozstock Street!'.
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The theatre has now been hosting events at its Tenbury Road location for a quarter of a century - but they'd been campaigning for a facility like this since the '50s, according to the records book.
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Originally, events had been held in an 'old tin hut' which had been built in 1919 by the Royal British Legion. But eventually they decided an all-singing, all-dancing venue was what the town needed.
Broadcast
- Sun 22 Dec 2019 18:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Hereford & Worcester
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