Coope Boyes & Simpson
Since their first appearance in 1993, Coope Boyes and Simpson’s powerful and distinctive unaccompanied singing and songwriting have taken English roots into radical new directions.
Triple Echo: Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger & George Butterworth (No Masters NMCD22) Release: 19th June 2005Coope Boyes & Simpson recently launched Triple Echo : Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger & George Butterworth with a concert at Beverley & East Yorkshire Folk Festival and live broadcasts for Late Junction on BBC Radio 3 and a televised concert in the Grand Place in Brussels.
The album includes two songs collected locally by Ralph Vaughan Williams - It Hails, It Rains from Miss Duckenfield of Treeton and a carol New Christians Awakecollected from Mr Thomas of Stainton.
Triple Echo is the band's sixth solo album and sees them bringing their
breath-taking acappella to traditional songs collected by a trio of
composers - Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger and George Butterworth.
Returning to the source of English folksong, the album takes in versions of
classic traditional pieces like 'Bushes and Briars' and 'The Banks of Green
Willow', but also brings to light many little known gems drawn from the
composers' fieldwork across England in the early twentieth century,
including carols and songs from Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia, the
South East and Sussex and shanties from South West coast. It also
celebrates the contribution of the songs' original performers.
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