GreenMatthews • Festive Favourites (CD)

Chris Green and Sophie Matthews play English traditional songs and tunes in a thoroughly 21st-century kick-ass style. Using a blend of ancient instruments such as cittern, English bagpipes and shawm as well as modern folk instruments such as guitar, flute and piano accordion, they breathe new life into material from hundreds of years ago, making it fresh and relevant for a modern audience.  

Festive Favourites is GreenMatthews' first-ever 'best of' album, consisting of their favourite tracks from the albums A Victorian Christmas, A Medieval Christmas and A Brief History of Christmas.

Having sold out of CD copies of all three albums some time ago, Chris and Sophie thought a compilation of their favourite tracks from each would make a nice retrospective of their festive music. It also includes their Virtual Wassail from 2020!

Track listing:

1. Noel Nouvelet / Nos Galan
2. The Sans Day Carol
3. Angelus Ad Virginem
4. Gower Wassail
5. Time to Remember the Poor
6. The Bagpipe Carol
7. Bethlehem Down
8. Mirie It Is
9. Gaudete
10. Bring Us In Good Ale
11. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
12. The Holly and the Ivy
13. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
14. Under The Mistletoe
15. The Lockdown Carol
16. Personet Hodie