Walker: The Babe of Bethlehem, Humphreys: Exultation, White: The Morning Trumpet - The Waldorf Students Choir, conductor: László Bencze. Recorded on 24. 06. 2011. on The Night of Museums in the Hungarian National Gallery Budapest

Our last song is an original carol written by the incomparable composer and arranger, Chris Hoban. Chris has written many of Show of Hands’ big hits including, ‘Lily and the Rose’ which he wrote for Miranda Sykes and The Lost Sound. We’ve performed this t...  moreOur last song is an original carol written by the incomparable composer and arranger, Chris Hoban. Chris has written many of Show of Hands’ big hits including, ‘Lily and the Rose’ which he wrote for Miranda Sykes and The Lost Sound. We’ve performed this together with Show of Hands, at their 25thAnniversary concert in The Royal Albert Hall in 2017. Chris explains the background of ‘Though We Lie Underground’ for us: I first came across the stories surrounding the curious tradition of West Country miners singing carols underground when listening to a recording of Alan Lomax’s extraordinary live BBC 1957 broadcast “Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year”, a feat of radio genius involving hundreds of performers and groups all over the country, seamlessly brought together for one scintillating hour. At one point, Lomax described how the miners of Devon and Cornwall would celebrate Christmas underground in an almost pagan fashion: they would select the largest lump of tin ore they could handle, set it up in...    less

Our contest package that won us our third gold medal: You Don't Know Me Arranged by Jim Clancy for The Vocal Majority Chorus Adapted for Women by Jim Clancy Words & Music by Cindy Walker and Eddie Arnold The Lady is a Tramp (medley) He's a Tramp...  moreOur contest package that won us our third gold medal: You Don't Know Me Arranged by Jim Clancy for The Vocal Majority Chorus Adapted for Women by Jim Clancy Words & Music by Cindy Walker and Eddie Arnold The Lady is a Tramp (medley) He's a Tramp Music & lyrics by Jean Schwartz, Samuel Lewis, Joseph Young The Lady is a Tramp Music & lyrics: Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke Arr: Paul Davies