Kate Rusby's Yorkshire Christmas
Victoria Hall (Town Hall) , Leeds
Music Planet, BBC Radio 3 FM
First Broadcast 21st December 2019 
Recorded 13th December 2019 (or that's when she played Leeds Town Hall)

Kate Rusby performs festive Yorkshire songs and carols in a concert from Victoria Hall in Leeds, introduced by Kathryn Tickell. For two hundred years, Yorkshire has had its very own Christmas carol tradition, centred on village pubs, and with its own versions of well-known carols, some of which were frowned upon by the church in Victorian times as ‘too happy’. Kate Rusby grew up in this tradition, and has been sharing it for the past fifteen years with audiences across the UK in her annual Christmas tours.

For this concert she is joined by her husband Damien O’Kane on guitar, Steven Byrnes on bouzouki, Nick Cooke playing diatonic accordion, and Duncan Lyall on double bass and Moog, together with the Brass Boys quintet.

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NOTE: Any waffle, banter or intro lasting longer than 30 seconds is tracked separately. In truth, from past experience,   Kate can usually talk for a goodly percentage of her shows. I don't know for certain but suspect much editing was applied to this broadcast as in-between song banter is very short especially in the second part. I usually loathe shows at Leeds Town Hall which has all the acoustics of an old phone box but IMO the Beeb did very well with this show.

[59.26]
1. Introduction (1.36)
2. Hark Hark (3.59)
3. Kate Chat & Song Intro (1.22)
4. Sweet Chiming Bells (4.40)
5. Kate Chat & Song Intro (0.41)
6. Here We Come A-Wassailing (3.36)
7. Kate Chat & Song Intro (0.39)
8. Sunny Bank (3.52)
9. Kate Chat & Song Intro (0.40)
10. Bleak Mid-Winter (Yorkshire) (5.14)
11. Kathryn Tickell Chat to Kate (4.03)
12. Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo (4.53)
13. Deck The Halls (3.49)
14. Salute The Morn (4.07)
15. Hail Chime On (4.55)
16. Kate Chat & Song Intro (2.09)
17. Yorkshire Merry Christmas (3.58)
18. Kathryn Tickell Chat, Band Intros & Chat (0.50)
19. Sweet Bells (4.22)

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