The Music Appreciation Group

Leader:  Mike Stow - musicapp@ashbyu3a.co.uk - 01530 469152

4th December

Our leader was not available this month and so Nev hosted and led the group.

Disappointingly only two members were available to attend the meeting, so in order to provide some additional music, Nev invited his neighbour, Adrian, to join the proceedings.

Dorothy started proceedings with the York Waits playing ‘Intruda Decima’ and ‘Pavana La Bataglia’.

Adrian’s first choice was Kate Rusby singing ‘Jolly Plough Boys’.

Nev’s first choice was a YouTube recording of Paul McCartney and Cilla Black working on a song that he had written for her. Paul plays guitar and offers advice to Cilla who sings ‘Step Inside Love’.

Dorothy kept the Christmas theme going with Andy Williams singing ‘The Christmas Song’.

Nev continued with Sandy Denny singing ‘Who Knows Where the Time Goes’. This is a song she had written when with the Strawbs and they recorded as a ’B’ side. In 1968 she joined Fairport Convention and in 1969 they recorded a version of the song with Sandy singing accompanied by Richard Thompson on guitar.

Dorothy then gave us another and quite different version of ‘The Christmas Song’, this time by the Ibstock Brass Band.

This prompted Adrian to pick another brass band, The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, accompanying Peter Skellern singing ‘Top Hat, White Tie and Tails’.

Continuing the Christmas theme Nev chose Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band singing ‘Poor Little Jesus’.

Dorothy then chose a track by Oasis, not the Gallagher brothers from Manchester, but a group formed in 1984 consisting of: Peter Skellern; Mary Hopkin; Julian Lloyd Webber: Mitch Dalton and Bill Lovelady. The song was a Peter Skellern composition called ‘Weavers of Moonbeams’.

Adrian finished with Shirley Collins and the Albion Band singing ‘Just As the Tide Was A ‘Flowing’.

Nev’s final choice was the Christmas Carol ‘Away In a Manger’ by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.

The January meeting should be on New Years Day! so we have decided not to meet. The next meeting will be at Sallie’s house on Feb 5th.