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Review of Unity by EDS - 10/03/2007

EDS The magazine of the English Folk Dance & Song Society reviews our latest album.

What we've been up to - 10/03/2007

News from Dave & Anni

MP3 files and lyrics - 13/01/2007

MP3 files and lyrics available on this site

Review of Unity ONTCD2061 - 07/12/2006

Phil Thomas from Living Tradition reviews our new album

Old & New Tradition Gallery - 07/12/2006

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Old & New Tradition Newsletter - 07/12/2006

Welcome to our new website - 07/12/2006

Old & New Tradition website goes live

Review of Unity ONTCD2061

Living Tradition by Phil Thomas

Dave and Anni know what they do best. They seek out fine songs that move them, and they sing them with two fine voices that go together so well that the title of this album seems totally appropriate. For this selection they are joined by a chorus comprising Johnny Collins, Ian Giles, Sue Brown and Lorraine Irving - and there is enough power and talent in those six voices to make your toes curl!

There are fifteen songs on this album and there is only one occasion I can find where you hear a sound not made by a human voice (the sound of wind and sea on track thirteen, Anni's setting of the traditional 'Fisher Lad of Whitby'). Engineer Martin Atkinson has done a superb job here by faithfully capturing, by turns, power, emotion, passion and humour. Surprisingly, perhaps, only three of these songs are labelled 'traditional'. The notes are brief but informative.

You might consider that one of the high points is 'Flowers of the Town' (a C.Day Lewis poem set to music by LT's very own Roy Harris), but I would have to say that I am glad Dave and Anni chose to put 'Bring out the Banners' (by John Warner and John Goss) at the end of the CD, because you would be hard pressed to find a song to follow this stirring version of a Union Anthem written in Australia as recently as 1997.

This is my current front runner for 'CD of the Year'.

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