Patricia Hammond

Love these old songs….
some reminds me of my first lady friend when I was 18 year old. thank you my dear for bringing them back. I am lost in memories.

Patricia’s voice has a dreamy quality that reflects the words of the song. Love the arrangement!

Darling, i’m ashamed to say this is the first time i have seen this new website… i’m here admiring it with my friend… it and you are GORGEOUS as ever. HUGS N KISSES xoxoxoxox

I am a dutch woman and I love this music. It gives me such a relaxed feeling.
What a lovely voice.

I look forward to receiving email updates and also a Hammond concert in North Wales (Llandudno) or the North West (Liverpool, Manchester)

All best wishes to Patricia!

hey patrica i was reading your bio and listen to your cd wow you have done so well for your self.nice to be able to keep track of old friends from school… gonna miss you at the 20 year reunion hope to see you some time soon

Bookers were afraid that the venues we’re trying to attract would be scared of me if they saw that the majority of my clips were in a church! But it’s back up again…just for you!

Hopefully they’ll be on the next release! If “Our Lovely Day” is hugely successful there will be more! Hard to narrow it down to under 20 songs…so many good ones out there.

[…] I’d love to! There is just an endless array. If you go to my website, you can see a big list of them. I actually need to update it because I’ve added about 20 and I need to add them to […]

You should have seen Oren when I showed him this! Mesmerized for 30 seconds, then smile, and dance, dance, dance!
Your voice has most definitely been imprinted on his brain.

What a pleasure it was to happen upon your concert on the Southbank last week. I look forward to hearing your new album.

Love your choice of songs and voice.
Good luck in your career.

Hello Patricia – Is there a list of your forthcoming concerts?

We really enjoy the clips on Youtube.

Any more news on the release of your CD? I’ll buy one as a surprise gift for my husband.

Regards – The Kettlewells

hi there,

your voice is enchanting, i’m a soprano and i sing similar repetoire. You are wonderful, keep up the good work.

Regards,
Emma.

I’m really enjoying your CD of French songs, and thanks for the postcode (I’m a Jane Austen fan too). Looking forward to hearing the new CD when it’s released.

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I reckon you should do Stephen Fosters Old Dog Tray which is a great song like all of his and will go down well with an English audience but as a cat person rather it may go against the grain ?!

This is very exciting, and I wonder if it will be available through Amazon?
will you be having a launch party in London?
Let me know if you do…
look forward to another chance meeting, or even a planned one…

You are one of the most inspiring voices I’ve heard at the Experimental Cocktail Club. Cannot wait till next Tuesday!!

Hi Patricia, I was introduced to your music while listening to Desmond Carrington on Radio 2 last Friday and was totally blown away. I really love that you are raising awareness of these songs by your interpretations of them and may I wish you great success. Hope to catch you live one day, meanwhile I will continue to spread the word about your music.
Best wishes, David Anderson

Hi Patricia,
I am 23 years old and think your voice is phenomenal. I recently bought your album in HMV having not heard of you before (I liked the look of it!) and fell in love with your voice the minute I put it on. You have an outstanding talent. The songs on A Lovely Day are beautiful. I’ve always loved songs like Marble Halls and We’ll Gather Lilacs and you sing them superbly.
I would love to hear White Cliffs of Dover and We’ll Meet again on your next album. Lots of love from, Sophiexxxxxx

Classic Fm should play I dreamt I dwelt in Marble Halls. I think they play too many instrumentals on Classic FM. I want them to play more beautiful singers such as Patricia Hammond!

I see you’re going to be singing there again this year? Perhaps I should be there?

One of the loveliest voices I have ever heard has brought new wonder and enchantment to a timeless classic.

Very neat blog.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

Yes, don’t miss this one in an even lovlier church in Middleham, Wensleydale, the childhood home of Richard III and the horse racing centre of the North.
Thursday 31 May at 8.00pm with tenor Anthony Brown and Michael Gough, with another new commission, on piano.
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Really enjoy your performances, and am anxiously awaiting word of a U.S. tour.

I first discovered you on Youtube and ordered the album from Amazon. Truly wonderful. I don’t suppose you’ve got any bookings in Paris?!

Thank you so much for endless hours of listening pleasure.

In my sleep a song came to me, a song Mother sang while doing housework. “Till we meet again” I was amazed at finding Patricia Hammond on youtube singing the song with a great and pleasurable sounding voice. I now know that good music is just so connected to God and his love. There is no way to top these old songs that were sung with heart and soul just bursting with passion. Thank you Patricia!

Hi Patricia – I was introduced to your songs by a mutual friend at the Wellcome Collection yesterday. Now I am hooked. The ragtime numbers transport me to my childhood in the late ’40s and early ’50s and to the 78s in my parents’ collection. Thank you for not just keeping great traditions alive, but for causing them to flourish! John

Hi Patricia
My daughter and I were wondering if you have any UK singing dates planned for July and beyond.

Hope to see you soon. We are just listening to your Our Lovely Day album – Wonderful! More please!

John and Sophie Hall

Patricia, I just read your article in the Telegraph from 2010. It was a joy to read. I found the article while searching for song ideas for senior citizens homes. I too grew up in BC (Vancouver, Burnaby, Courtenay, Port Moody) and have played for seniors for most of my life, now more than ever. So much of your article rang true to me, the lump in your through while singing, the smells, the verbal outbursts, the conversations over tea after the concert and the understanding many seniors about illness and death.

Thank you for sharing your story.

You are still as beautiful and as impressive as ever in your career . I still brag about you !!!!

george

Loved it, hugely promising, but strangely, to me, the acoustic didn’t sound like a church! I thought the two voices went very well together, particularly in the pianissimo passages.

Yes, indeed. I can verify the presence of the aforementioned thousands of 78 RPMs EPs, and also thousands of LPs plus steamer trunks of Patricia’s old sheet music in my basement. And every so often I read an apologetic e-mail asking me to find a certain piece of sheet music.
Like most mothers, I do my best. And it’s fun searching!

Hello Patricia
Just to let you know my daughter Sophie and I are very excited. We are hoping to get some tickets to see you sing on the 12th July. I do hope we can say hello to you. There’s even dinner as well I see!
How’s the new album coming along? Can’t wait……..
Take care Patricia
Kindest Regards
John and Sophie Hall

Go East, young girl! Your voice has much more flavors than those contained in a cup of tea!

Heard Patricia and Matt at Long Melford yestereday and was absolutely captivated. Not many things would tempt me to move back to London to live, but the chance to be able to hear more of Patricia, and to experience some of the other groups/artists performances could !
Patricia, I was with The Colne Endeavour Band ( The hairy one )

Be an interesting album too listen too.

The Fleetwood Parade seems to be your nephew’s and niece’s favourites. They watch it and say, “Again,” ad infinitum. I have to shut the computer down to end it. Mesmerized by the kids and your performance.

Dear Patricia—

There is a Czech folk song that I think you might like (perhaps you already know it). It’s called Mĕla jsem holoubka (I had a turtledove). I have put a copy of the version I prefer into Dropbox. If you would send me an email address I’ll send you a link.

Thanks and best wishes.

Oho! It’s a grey cold day here, but as soon as I heard “Somewhere in France,” the world brightened. I can’t imagine that piece better arranged or performed. An unexpectedly upbeat piece of music.
Congrats all of you on both.
Hope you don’t have to wait too long for permissions.

I first saw/heard Patricia on Neil Brand’s programme, “The Sound of Song”, on BBC 4. I agree with all the comments. I too like this era. It was like a breath of fresh air to hear someone sing so clearly. The clip on the programme was all too short. Thank you.

Saw you on Neil Brand’s Sound of Song (BBC4).

You have a gorgeous voice. (I think I’m in love!)

Your (unadulterated) version of ‘Do You Believe’ was fantastic – in a different league to the original. Any chance you could release it? 😉

…………and what a lovely wig it s too….

Where did you get that wig, where did you get that wig?
Hello Patricia, my daughter and I, and I’m sure all of your fans, will be delighted to hear that the CD will be available soon. The wig really suits you by the way! Hope to see you soon maybe at Brentham again. Take care, John and Sophie Hall

Congratulations on the new venture, and your video preview looks PHENOMENAL!!! You go guys!!!

You sing them beautifully, Patricia, but, not too sure about songs from the 1910s for me. I will be very interested to hear what’s on the new ‘Elizabethan’ album though. My all time favourite at the moment is hearing yourself and Matt performing the 1940s selection especially, Laura, but they are all good.

Loved the Great War recordings, especially the German ones, which one never normally gets to hear. I’m so pleased you are starting to get the recognition you deserve for this. Fantastic you’ve been invited to Verdun. I’m looking forward to the renaissance CD, having very much enjoyed your recital at Forty Hall last year. All the very best.

So you play castanets as well – and do a bit of percussion – as well as singing so beautifully. Enjoyed so many of these clips.

Dear Patricia,
can´t thank you enough for your caring about E.Brockmann´s fate. To me E.B. was totally unknown until I received the invite/programme from the Volksbund for the Fricourt commemoration. But still only after your moving recital there I started to gather more information about him; only to learn that it is due to your initiative that Ernst Brockmann,after 100 years,has gotten his “life” back; comme il faut.
My sincere thanks for that. Dieter

Hello Patricia. Many thanks for the 2 new CD’s. I have just told Sophie that hers is waiting to be picked up and she was doing her happy dance! We can’t wait to listen to them. Loved the postcard by the way but suspect that was taken a few years ago as your hair was so long then! Can we please see that dress at the next concert perhaps! Kindest Regards Patricia as always and cannot wait to hear you sing again.

Certainly! I’ll send you the booklet notes. It’s such a detailed recording with different groupings for each track, and thus would have been a pain to put on CD Baby. To be honest, digital sales are so miniscule in monetary scale that it just wasn’t worth the immense time it would have cost!

You were spot on…it truly was a fabulous evening last Saturday at Princelet Street…a superb evocation of Talbot House, proper-looking WW1 soldiers…a charmingly convincing ‘French’ madame ensuring we were all at ease as we scoffed our (all included) egg chips and wine…top class entertainment from you, Matt and the magician…and even a friendly wave through the window as we left. It could not have been bettered… very many thanks to all involved!

Hallo liebe Patricia
War dieses Jahr zur Gedenkfeier am 1. Juli auf dem deutschen Soldatenfriedhof in Fricourt. Dort haben Sie u.a. das Lied ” Bald ach so balde” gesungen. Es war ein sehr ergreifender Moment in dieser Feier. Ich danke Ihnen und Ihrem musikalischen Begleiter für diese gelungene Darbietung nochmals recht herzlich im Namen meiner Gruppe der Polizei Rheinland-Pfalz.

Hi Patricia,
This is one lovely CD. Thank You. Heard about it on CBC.
Regards to your mother Jo. Do you miss Gibsons?
Regards
James

Hello Patricia
I have just bought my 3rd copy of Lovely Day. My Sophie and I have one each but now I am trying to convert my oldest daughter Jennie! She used to be into Techno so there is much work ahead.

I do hope you have more UK dates before disappearing to BC again. Sophie and I miss you Patricia.
God Bless and see you soon we hope.
Kind Regards
John and Sophie Hall

On Saturday the 18th of November, Patricia and Matt Redman came to our village, Oborne, which is just outside Sherborne in Dorset, and put on their concert ‘Songs of The Great War’. It was brilliant! In fact, in a way it was a pity that they were up on a stage as their performance is so wonderfully informal – we could all have been sitting around the fireside at home – a family gathering! Patricia’s sang the songs – she really does have a beautiful voice – and the virtuoso Matt accompanied her on a whole range of stringed instruments. Although the background to the songs – the Great War – is somber, there was nothing maudlin or sentimental about the music – well, alright, just a little bit sentimental at times! But with their relaxed style and their chatter about the songs and Matt’s instruments, it was a hugely entertaining and fun evening, one that we will long remember. We want them both to come back to Oborne as soon as possible to do their 1940’s concert. Thank you Patricia and Matt for coming a long way to deepest Dorset and giving us a truly great evening.

Ken Mathews

Hi Patricia

We are Downe WI, Kent celebrating our 100 year with a lunch
on July 9th and wondered if you would be interested in
singing for us and how much you would charge for an hour
after our lunch. A member of our committee saw you at West Wickham and thought you were great.
Regards
Diana Davis (President_)

Selling only one CD at the Swaledale festival is probably more a comment on the cultural desert of North Yorkshire than the recording process.

Hi. I was looking for the CD “She Wrote the Songs.” Is it out? If so, your site does not allow it to be purchased. And thanks for what you do.

Dennis

I grew up on these Victorian and Edwardian songs in the 1950s and 60s. particularly around Christmas at fanily gatherings. My grandmother would fill the Mat Redmann role on the piano,accompanying our vocal efforts at Love;s Old sweet Song, The Miner’s Dream of Home, G&S, Percy French, A Perfedt Day, In The Gloaming etc. My grand father was a Music hall singer and actor-manager and continue to belt out sogs of this period into his 80s.I also love your renditions of the civil War songs, particularly the Southrn ones reawakening my Gone With The Wind experiences.
Hopeyou’ll be back in chester soon

Go get one booked and sung – its like being a Duke of Chandos or a Prince Esterházy for ten minutes before coming down bang to earth.

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When You sing Amsterdam it becomes a Majestic Anthem that rises above the polluted waters of a real port and sails out as a great galleon with a figurehead of a goddess with her hands on hips hips into the fog of a symbolist sea. YES I was lying before, my computer has no sound and the cheepo tablet has a developed charging fault and shuts off after 2 minutes reading 1 percent. So I bought myself a bigger tablet and plugged in the phone pre amplifier the sound is wonderful the Oud perfect the vocal sublime and I am so glad I asked you to do it.

Ernest Barton
You know the story Absolom rebelling against his father David is defeated in an oak wood by David’s army and 20,000 are slain in the forest. Fleeing on a mule – he passes under a spreading oak and his long most probably curly hair gets caught in the branches leaving him hanging, Davids general JOAB comes up and knowing that David wanted his son spared Hurls three darts – PLUMBATA into his chest. Its what a professional soldier would do – kill your kings enemies because if they live they are just likely to try it again. Absolom is cut down still alive and probably after the usual things like blinding nose removal and castration is finally killed and buried under rocks . This bloody story is the prequal to the song and the tones of battle come through in Matts brief intro – Here I am not sure if the melotron had been primed with samples because the result hardly sounds like a piano at all it has deep reverberating notes and bell like murderous high pitched cords in the right hand that reminded me of the Battle on the Ice in Alexander Nevsky Then Patricia comes in deep and relates how David wept for the son who hated him “Would that I had died for thee O Absolom my son.” The sudden flung down page of sheet music behind her produces the merest flicker of a smile but she carries on unflinching as the repetitions get more emotional and picks up the huge cowboy triangle by its string and gives it a single magical TING right at the end. Only then does the masque of intense sorrow slip. But they carry on discussing it afterwards as though there was something there in it more felt than heard as polyphonic music always seems to have before going on to do a George Formby number with great gusto and bright red lips.

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Un momento importante ⅾella sua esistenza.

That is lovely!! Thank you so much. It is a heart-rending time. Thank you.

Hello Patricia,
My mom discovered your Tango of the Roses on Youtube and remembered it from her youth. She asked whether you had it in Greek, and you responded that you would be able to send her a scan of the greek sheet music.
She’d love to have the scan but didn’t know how to contact you with her email.
I hope contacting you here will work. Thank you for the lovely music!

We have a Mandolin (in need 0f repair) which belonged to my father in law. He played in a band of mandolins and other like instruments during his service withe the Royal Marines, I’m not sure when he was in the service, but I know he was in the 1st world war, and didn’t leave until the 1920, having served his 22 years, We have some photographs of this band.

Vveerryy sslloowwllyy “catching up” with “All things Patricia”… (Festival of Remembrance — eyes doing that warm and moist thing again…).

As I expected, the voice is enchanting, and the the piano accompaniment is absolutely superb!! Brava, brava!!

Hello Patricia. Long time. I wondered what you are up to these (almost) post-covid days. Any gigs planned in the North London area or Essex would be better now as I no longer reside in Cockney-land but that is another story. I do hope you and all the gang are OK and keeping very busy.

Love to hear from you with all your plans
Kindest Regards
John

Thank you!! I’d LOVE to do another album like it.

I just love your music and have only just found it! I am trying to pick up the words of the middle 2 lines lines of the second verse of Yours.

Could anyone kindly fill in the gaps please?

The cloak of evening is wrapped around us
There is a spell……………
………………the moon has found us
It hears me open my heart to you.

Many thanks – and one day I hope to see you live!
Best wishes
Angela

Good morning both,
I saw you both up in Osterley Ward 1 West Middlesex Hospital. Your work there was great. Thourghly enjoyed that little impromptue midday party. Orlando and i particularly loved it. He had a rough start to the day with late painkiller dxlivery and i was at less than full possitivity. He was the big Rasta man and i was the guy with long white hair in the bed beside him.
Really great you gave time up to entertain and get us to join in.
Big thanks. That Blue Mink Song…..Good Morning Freedom.
Love
Mark