Late Junction - Verity Sharp

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 BBC'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. Track List: 23:15 Lyman: Mele Kalikimaka Arthur Lyman Album: Merry Readymade (To Whom It May Concern) Readymade 23:17 Trad arr. Coconami: Sleigh Ride Coconami Album: Wish You Too Trikont US 0387 (Segue) 23:20 Radian: Git Cut Derivat Radian Album: Chimeric Thrill Jockey Thrill CD 224 (Segue) 23:23 Anon arr. Carr/Wood/Cutting/Tweed: The Farmer Two Duos Album: Albion Navigator 29 23:31 Change Ringing: Bristol Surprise Maximus The Change Ringing Handbell Group Album: Change Ringing on Handbells Saydisc CD SDL 310 (Segue) 23:34 Trad arr. Haltli: Jag haver ingen kärare Frode Haltli (accordion), Arve Henriksen (trumpet), Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, (voice), Garth Knox (viola) Album: Passing Images ECM 1913 985 6022 (Segue) 23:44 Dhuibhir: A Dhia na Nollag Finola ó Siochúr Album: Solas Na Soilse Foras na Gaeilge FOSCD002 23:50 Drever/Green/O’Rourke: Horizontigo Lau Album: Arc Light Navigator 20 23:57 BBC Late Junction Collaboration Session: ‘A Midwinter Tale’ Debs Newbold, Mary Hampton & Dave Price Recorded 27th November 2009 00:24 Edmondson: Von Himmel Hoch Carleton Etherington (organ) Album: The Three Kings Delphian DCD34047 00:29 Reger: The Virgin’s Slumber Song Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum Album: The Three Kings Delphian DCD34047 (Segue) 00:31 Dissard/Sanchez: Je et Tu No Croient plus au Père No ël Marianne Dissard & Amparo Sanchez Album: Wish You Too Trikont US 0387 (Segue) 00:34 Thompson/O’Rourke: Glencoe Richard Thompson Album: Grizzly Man Cooking Vinyl CookCD360 00:36 Trad: The Bible’s Right Sister O. M. Terrell Album: Goodbye, Babylon Dust to Digital (Segue) 00:39 Hamrick: Lloyd 503 Liberty Baptist Church Album: Awake My Soul Awake Productions (Segue) 00:41 Trad: Swaledale Billy Mills & carol singers at the Royal Hotel, Dungworth Album: Hark, Hark! What News Village Carols VC009 00:46 Mann arr. Gellert/Jones: Blooming Youth 176b Rayna Gellert & John Paul Jones Album: Awake My Soul Awake Productions (Segue) 00:48 Animal Collective: Two Sails on a Sound Animal Collective Album: Here comes the Indian Paw Track PAW001