A collaborative folk Christmas show with Lady Maisery and Jimmy & Sid, mixing traditional songs, folk carols, spoken word and newly written music.
Lady Maisery and Jimmy & Sid bring their collaborative Christmas show, Awake Arise, to Salisbury Arts Centre on Thursday 10 December. It's a folk night built around winter traditions, and the bill brings together five of the English folk scene's most inventive artists: the trio Lady Maisery — Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans and Hazel Askew — and the partnership of Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith.
The set mixes traditional songs, folk carols, spoken word and newly written music. It's not just a run of carols, though; the artists frame the whole thing as a rallying cry to embrace the power of collective endeavour in times of hardship and loneliness. The title, Awake Arise, points to that same spirit.
Lady Maisery have spent nearly a decade on vocal harmony work, which The Guardian described as some of the most exquisite in the English folk scene. They're also credited as one of the first UK groups to revive 'diddling' — singing tunes rather than words — a tradition that had almost died out in England but is still common in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith pair sung storytelling with sensitive instrumentation and a social conscience, drawing on themes of struggle, resistance and justice. Together, they're working from the riches of winter traditions and the hope and resilience they find in music and song.
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It's a night of traditional songs, carols, spoken word and new music, all under one roof. The show starts at 7:30pm at Salisbury Arts Centre in Salisbury.
