Pretty much my favorite Christmas album.
And thanks to YouTube I learn that there is a DVD of them doing a Christmas show. Here's "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen," performed very much as heard on the album. I love Maddy Prior–she's so unpretentious and engaging, while singing so wonderfully.
(Also, I find it somehow encouraging that she's slightly older than I am.)
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
And a merry Christmas to you too!
I really should get one of her CDs.
AMDG
I’m pretty sure you would like this one, and probably her stuff in general. She made two (I think) albums with June Tabor as Silly Sisters that are very very good.
Merry Christmas to all at and around Light on Dark Water. I’m travelling to the States with my two cats tomorrow, so please keep us in your prayers.
Merry Christmas, y’all. Safe travelling, Francesca.
Remind me again where you are moving to.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Safe traveling, Francesca.
AMDG
Safe & not too unpleasant traveling, Francesca.
Merry Merry Christmas!!!
And a safe blessed journey to Francesca!!!
Merry Christmas, all!
Janet, if I send you some mp3 tracks, can you open them? I don’t have this album, but for my birthday I got Paradise Found, all Charles Wesley hymns in beautiful old settings. I love Maddy!
I hate to sound stupid, Sally, but I don’t know.
AMDG
Hm. Well, let me email you one, and see if you can.
The only reason you wouldn’t be able to send an mp3 via email would be that your email provider doesn’t allow attachments of that size (probably anywhere from 3 to 8 or 10 megabytes). Well, if you were on a dialup connection, it might take hours, so you wouldn’t want to do it for that reason, but you’re probably not. I don’t do this myself, because in my capacity as a techie I’ve spent so many years trying to stretch scarce resources. I can’t quite cope with the Google mentality of unlimited space and bandwidth.
As for playing it, Windows Media Player will do, and I think most PCs have it as standard equipment now. There are dozens of free programs out there that will, too.
I find I can send up to three mp3 files via hotmail, and it will let me with no (apparent) problem. Since I’m not a techie, the only problems which bother me are the apparent ones.
Recently I sent out a track of something we were learning in choir, or maybe something I want us to learn in choir (ah, I remember: I was trying to push an Anonymous 4 arrangement of “Return Again” on the other two women, in time to sing in conjunction with the “Rorate Coeli.” I did not succeed).
Anyway, it sent fine, but one of the other two women said she was unable to open it. Not sure why.
I couldn’t open the one you sent either, but thanks for trying.
AMDG
Oh, well. I’ll send you a CD.
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