It's The
Season!
A new St Agnes Fountain live album will be available on this
years tour 
Original CD - 'Comfort
& Joy - Reviews -
Order -
Tour
This is the essence of St Agnes Fountain in their element, recorded live in concert during their second national tour in December, 2002. Here is the atmosphere that makes the quartet’s performances such an unmissable part of Christmas; not only the invigorating re-acquaintance with the seasonal songs and instrumentals that St Agnes Fountain uniquely purvey but also the badinage, the intros and the sheer fun that they bring to the most famous and familiar tunes in the calendar. These are carols given a good seeing to in front of ecstatic full houses.
To witness a St Agnes Fountain concert during the frenetic Christmas build-up is an electric event. It is both a right rallying to the Christmas spirit and an affirmation, sometimes spiritual, of what we all thought that really means.
| Track List Music & Readings | |
| MASTERS IN THIS HALL | DECK THE HALLS |
| A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS Julie Matthews (Dylan Thomas) | |
| PRESENT TIMES | IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER |
| SWEET BELLS | |
| THE OX AND THE ASSES STORY David Hughes (Elma Mitchell) | |
| CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE 1950’S | |
| I’VE SAT ON YOUR ZEPPELIN Chris While | |
| INDIAN PIPES / INDIAN PRAYER Chris Leslie | |
| THE RIVER | |
| BE NICE TO YOUR TURKEY Chris Leslie (Benjamin Zephaniah) | |
| ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY | FIDDLE INSTRUMENTAL |
| A FLAKE OF SNOW Chris While (Clive Sansom) | |
| SILENT NIGHT | |
| ORDER | |
Here are magical moments when four talents converge on the musical stage. Here is Chris While, her consummate voice at times biblical, at others sassy as hell. Here she is, too, in total command of the percussion section with her crisp bodran to the fore. On her right the heart-rending Julie Matthews, without her keyboards there would be no St Agnes. Neither would the quartet exist without the sensual voice that sings Silent Night at the end of the evening. Here is David Hughes, that syncopated individual, providing the push with his rhythmic, finger-style guitar and the driest of commentary. And to his left is Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention, on violin, mandolin and Indian pipe, one of the best performers this country has, creating a Christmas spirit only a Buddhist can. They are a unique ensemble indeed. As Julie said on the tour, there are many bands who could change a couple of personnel and the music would be the same but you could never do that with St Agnes Fountain.
Here is St Agnes Fountain in the glory of four-part harmony, enjoying a rip-roaring time, wringing tears and laughter from the pure emotion of Christmas.