Great to be at a pretty full Barbican tonight for a Kate Rusby Christmas concert with Eleri. First time I've seen her live. We had three versions of While Shepherds, a brilliant Paradise, good fun numbers like Santa never brings me a banjo and The Ivy and the holly and a song about wassailing plus a little instrumental diversion from the boys in the band (which included a five piece brass band for many numbers) along with many other delights culminating (before a two song encore) with Big brave Bill, Christmas version to close. Kate loves to chat and explained all the songs and threw in some humour too. Great atmosphere. As a Christian the words of some of those hymns really mean a whole load more but there was nothing irreverend about any of what we got.
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