We saw this ensemble several weeks ago live when they played the Enniskillen arts festival and we were totally blown away by the professionalism of the music and the versatility of the musicians.
So we bought this album at the concert and got Norma Waterson and Tim to sign the cover for us, a really nice touch was the personal warmth of the musicians and Norma oozes charm and personality!
The album is true English yuletide folk with a wide variety of musical flavour and a total of 17 delicious tracks, enough for all to fing some that will suit their own personal tastes.
My favourites are tracks 16 and 17!
I have been playing this in my car CD player all week and I now look forward to taking long car journeys to do home visits as I can enjoy several tracks in one trip.
Go to amazon.co.uk and you can sample all 17 tracks (30 seconds each) and it will give you a flavour of the diversity of music on offer here.
Gloryland (track 17) is my personal favourite based on a southern gospel song written by Ira Sankey
The four musicians are:
Martin Carthy (Singing and guitar) Norma Waterson (Singing and playing the triangle) Eliza Carthy (Singing and Violin) Tim Van Eyken (Melodian and Singing)
As a quartet it works beautifully and each artist is given a chance to showcase their own talents, a brilliant effort, thank-you!
check out the review on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Holy-Heathens-Old-Green-Man/dp/B000IFRR2Q
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