Christmas Champions December 12, 2007

Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 Late Junction & The Sage Gateshead
Chris Wood & Hugh Lupton won the BBC Folk Award for Best New Song with One in a Million, their contemporary ballad of love set in a fish & chip shop. Their work is best summed up by BBC 3’s Verity Sharp...

'It’s rare to hear work as powerful…With beautifully sculpted prose and carefully honed music they seduce the minds of those who listen, skillfully drawing on the past to make sense of the present.“ Verity Sharp, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3.

Christmas Champions, builds upon the music of midwinter both choral and instrumental with new songs and re-workings of established carols. They are joined by Robert Harbron - Voice/ Concertina; John Dipper - Voice/ Violin; and Olivia Ross - Voice/ Viola. What sets the show apart is the way in which their voices are worked into field recordings of Herbie Smith's reminiscences of mumming in the Medway valley at the turn of the last century. Hugh Lupton's narrative constantly contextualises the music and the singers reciprocate, weaving and compounding imagery, parable and drama.

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