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HAVING recently teamed up with Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith to create Awake Arise, an album of winter songs, all-female trio Lady Maisery benefit from that new gender balance at this performance.
It adds extra voices to the mix as they faithfully and sequentially reproduce all of the songs on their latest recording, along with spoken-word interludes that include a recitation of a Christmas recipe and a poetical description of the properties of evergreen plants.
It's a gentle evening of contemplative and quiet music, notwithstanding the odd Wassail or Sheffield carol and, in truth, it proves more inspirational than the album itself.
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