Jon Boden pops round for a Christmas party
Jess Gillam hosts a Christmas party back home in the Lake District with singer Jon Boden and friends & family. With live music, festive tunes and lots of Jess's mum's mince pies.
Jess Gillam heads back home to the Lake District to host a Christmas house party. She's joined by folk singer Jon Boden, friends & family, and lots of Jess's mum's mince pies, to share their favourite Christmas music and to play a few impromptu festive tunes together.
Jon Boden is probably best known as the lead singer of the brilliant contemporary folk band Bellowhead, and alongside his duo with John Spiers and various solo projects he's one of the most recognisable and acclaimed names in today's UK folk scene.
Jon chats to Jess about his musical traditions at Christmas - from pub singalongs to arranging Mummers carols - and he and Jess swap some of their favourite tunes, from Dinah Shore to Steeleye Span via Darlene Love, Gustav Holst and Samuel Coleridge Taylor.
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Sufjan Stevens
Once In Royal David's City
- Asthmatic Kitty Records.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Suite for viola and small orchestra - Group 1 (Prelude, Carol & Christmas Dance)
Performer: Lawrence Power. Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- Vaughan Williams: Suite / Flos Campi.
- Hyperion.
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Jon Boden & Eliza Carthy
Fairytale Of New York
- Hudson Records.
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Jon Boden
Christmas Bells
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Jon Boden & Eliza Carthy
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
- Hudson Records.
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Ingibj枚rg 脼orbergs
Hin fyrstu j贸l
- 脥slenzkir T贸nar.
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Gustav Holst
In the Bleak Midwinter (Arr. Kanneh-Mason)
Music Arranger: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason.- Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (Arr. Kanneh-Mason).
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Dinah Shore
The Merry Christmas Polka
- Columbia.
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Jess Gillam Ensemble
Yuletide Comes
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Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings
Merry Mountain Child
- Hudson Records.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Christmas Overture (The Forest of Wild Thyme Op.74)
Music Arranger: Sydney Baynes. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.- The Night Before Christmas.
- Naxos.
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Steeleye Span
The King
- Chrysalis.
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Darlene Love
Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
- Chrysalis.
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Henry John Gauntlett
Once in Royal David's City
Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- Kings College.
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Frederick Delius
Sleigh Ride (Winter Night)
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- Delius in Norway.
- CHANDOS.
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Jess Gillam Ensemble
The Wassail song
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Why are more young people listening to classical music?
20yo classical musician and presenter Jess Gillam is here to improve your playlist game.
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This Classical Life
Jess Gillam hosts the music show for people who like classical and other stuff too.
