Welcome to
Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman
Living Room Requests

Below is an ongoing directory of songs requested and performed since April 2020. Scroll down and click on any title to see and hear us live. This isn’t a list to choose from (we do ANY song!) but to see what’s already been requested and done!

  • Songs cost £40 
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If you do find the song you would have asked for on this page but would love to hear it performed with, say, another of Matt’s MANY instruments, or with another personal dedication, do let us know!

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12th Street Rag
A Ballad for Katherine of Aragon
A Basket of Eggs
A Christmas Carol (Ives) 
A Heart That’s Free
A House is Not a Home
A Little of What You Fancy
A Man’s a Man for A’ That
A Message from the Man in the Moon
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
A Paradise for Two (Maid of the Mountains)
A Word On My Ear
Absence (Berlioz; in French) 
Absence (Berlioz; in English)
Adelaide (Beethoven)
Adieu Cherie
Ae Fond Kiss
Africa
After the Ball
Afraid to Shoot Strangers
Ain’t it Ni-ce
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone
Ain’t We Got Fun
Ain’t She Sweet
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Alinde
All Around my Hat
All By Yourself in the Moonlight
All of Me (John Legend)
All of Me (John Legend…in Italian!)
All the Things You Are
Alone
Alone and Yet Alive (Mikado)
Alone Together
Always
Always in my Heart
An Affair to Remember
An den Mond (Schubert)
An die Freude
And I Love Her
Amado Mio
Amapola
Amsterdam
Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Another Suitcase in Another Hall
April (Caravan Palace) 
April in Portugal
Arabian Nights (in German)
Arthur Murray Taught me Dancing in a Hurry
Arthur’s Theme (The Best that You Can Do) 
As the Sun Goes Down
As With Rosy Steps the Morn
Asie (Shéhérazade)
At the River
Auf dem See
Auflösung
August (Rilo Kiley)
Augustowskie Noce
Ave Maria (Bach Gounod)
Baby’s Blue
Bad Things
Bald, Allzubalde (contraguitar)
Bald, Allzubalde (with zither banjo)
Barbara Allen
Barcarolle
Batti, Batti O Bel Masetto (Don Giovanni)
Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Berceuse from Jocelyn 
Besame Mucho
Beyond the Sea (also see below, La Mer)
Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home?
Birthday (Beatles)
Black (Pearl Jam) 
Black Velvet Band
Blackbird
Bless em All (Accordion)
Bless em all (Autoharp)
Blinded By the Light
Blue Bayou
Blue Christmas 
Boiled Beef and Carrots
Bonsoir Maitre de Maison
Born at the Right Time
Both Sides Now
Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses deluxe version
Bright Was the Day
Bring Him Home
Brother Mine (Fledermaus)
But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming
By the Bend in the River
Can’t We Be Friends
Cara Speme questo Core
Careless Love
Carolina Moon
Carrickfergus
Carry On My Wayward Son
Chambre Separee
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Cherry Ripe
Chinese Laundy Blues 
Choo Choo
Christmas Comes But Once a Year (Victorian version)
Christmas Comes But Once a Year (Renaissance version)
Circle (Slipknot)
Climb Every Mountain
Close Your Eyes
Colors of the Wind
Colossus (Borknagar)
Come Back To Me (Reviens) 
Come Rain or Come Shine
Cool Water
Cruising Down the River
Cuando Vuelva a tu Lado
Czarnoksieznik
Daddy
Dance Me to the End of Love  
Dance with a Dolly
Dancing Queen
Dardanella
Dark Music
Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
Daybreak 
De Sancta Maria (Hildegard von Bingen)
Dear Old Donegal
Deep Purple (with Gibson L4)
Deep Purple (with contraguitar)
Depuis le Jour 
Der Leiermann (Winterreise)
Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja
Der Wind Hat Mir ein Lied Erzählt
Desafinado
Diamonds and Rust
Dinah
Dirty Old Town
Donkey Serenade
Don’t Fence Me In
Don’t Go in the Lion’s Cage Tonight
Double Yodel
Down Yonder
Dream Lover (1929)
Dreamer’s Holiday
Dreaming of Brown Eyes
Drink, Drink, Drink 
Du Bist Nicht die Erste
Du Hast den Farbfilm Vergessen
English Country Garden
Enjoy the Silence
Enjoy Yourself, It’s Later than You Think
Estrellita
Evening Hymn
Every Time You Say Goodbye
Er Ist’s (Reger)
Erlkonig
Evening Hymn
Excelsior
Fado Sentimental
Fall, Leaves, Fall
Falling Down (Mad Caddies)
Falling in Love Again (ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss)
Fanlight Fanny
Fanny Power (instrumental)
Farewell (Maid of the Mountains) 
February (Dar Williams) 
Fields of Gold
First of May
Fish and Chips
Fisherman’s Blues
Flying
Forever Young
Frag’ Nicht Warum ich Gehe
Fragile
Frasquita Serenade
Galway Bay
Ganymed
Garífallo st’aftí
Georgia on my Mind
Georgy Girl
Germ-Free Adolescent
Ghost of the Navigator
Ghost Riders
Girl (Beatles)
Glad Rag Doll
God Bring You Safely To Our Arms Again
God Speed You Dear
Goldfinger
Good Vibrations
Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye
Gooseberry Wine
Gracias a la Vida
Green Isle of Erin
Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer
Hallelujah
Hallo, Guten Morgen Deutschland
Halloween Night
Hares on the Mountain
Harvest Moon
Hawaiian Twilight
He is There
He Loves (from Iolanthe)
He Was Beautiful
Hear my Song, Violetta
He’d Have to Get Out and Get Under
Heidenroslein
Hello
Hello Young Lovers
Here Comes Santa Claus
Here Comes the Sun
Heute Nacht Oder Nie
Homing
Honey
Honey Coloured Moon
Honeysuckle Rose
How Great Thou Art
How Long Great God (Purcell)
How Long Will I Love You
How Ya Gonna Keep Em  Down on the Farm
Hymne to God the Father
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
I Can Dream, Can’t I?
I Can See Clearly Now
I Can’t Get Started With You  
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby
I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire
I Dream Too Much
I Dreamed A Dream
I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls (with zither banjo)
I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls (with harp)
I Get Along Without You Very Well
I Got Rhythm
I Hid My Love
I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
I Know Where I’m Going
I Know Why and So Do You
I Live the Life I Love (and I Love the Life I Live)
I Love My Love 
I Love To Tango With My Tea
I Love You Honey
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I Remember You
I Say a Little Prayer
I Thought That We Said Goodbye
I Took My Harp to a Party
I Will Always Love You
I Will Survive
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like my Sister Kate
I Wish I Were With You Tonight
I Wonder If You Miss Me Sometimes
Ich Kusse Ihre Hand, Madame
If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked a Cake
If I’m Lucky
If I Needed You
If I Should Fall Behind, Wait For Me
If I Should Plant a Tiny Seed of Love 
If Love Were All
If My Complaints Could Passions Move
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise
I’ll Fly Away
I’ll Follow My Secret Heart
I’ll Never Let a Day Pass By 
I’ll Remember April
I’ll Tell Me Ma
Il Pleut Dans Ma Chambre
Imaginary Fire Carpenter Brut
I’m a Stranger Here Myself
I’m Crazy Bout the Turkey Trot
I’m Glad To See Your Back (sic)
Im Abendrot
Imagine
I’m Going to Wash My Hands of You
I’m Old Fashioned
In a Little Spanish Town
In A Mellow Tone
In Darknesse Let Me Dwell
In Fields Abroad
In Haven (Capri) 
In Mir Klingt Ein Lied
In My Little Red Book
In the Baggage Coach Ahead
In the Jailhouse Now
In the Mood
Indian Summer
Industry Required
Innocent When You Dream
In Santa Margarita
Into My Arms
It Happened in Monterey
It Must be Love
It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow (Guitar)
It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow (Autoharp)
It’s Our World
J’ai deux amants 
January
J’Attendrai
Je Cherche un Millionaire
Je Veux Vivre (Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette)
Jealousy
Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time
Jenny (Weill)
Jerusalem
Jesienne Róże
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Jilted
Jollity Farm
July Tree
Jurame
Just a Gigolo
Just a Little Love, a Little Kiss
Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars)
Kalinka
Kashmiri Love Song
Kasztany
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Keep the Home Fires Burning (outdoors and with mandocello)
Keep Young and Beautiful
Killer Queen
Killing Me Softly (With His Song) 
King David Was a Sorrowful Man 
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Kisses Sweeter than Wine
Kto?
La Bella Tangolita
La Carnauba Waltz (Matt Redman)
Lady Marlene (Katzenjammer)
La flûte enchantée (Shéhérazade)
La Mer (also See above for Beyond the Sea)
L’Amour est Bleu
L’Amour Toujours L’Amour
Lamento della Ninfa 
La Spagnola
La Vie en Rose
La Vie est Vaine
La Violetera 
Lascia mi Fare (Wanda) 
Law Lies a-Bleeding
Lazybones
Le Soleil s’est couché ce soir
Le Torrent
Leicester Square Rag
Let It Be Me
Let Me Sing and I’m Happy
Let the Great Big World Keep Turning
Let the Rest of the World Go By 
Let Your Love Flow
Liam (In Extremo)
Lights Out
Like to the Damask Rose
Lilac Wine
Lily the Pink
L’indifférent
Lines (Constant Lambert) 
Little Grey Home in the West
Little Lady Make-Believe
Little Rover
Linden Lea
London Pride
Long Live Love
Look Down, Fair Moon (Rorem) 
Looking at the World thru Rose Coloured Glasses
Love Changes Everything
Love in Absence
Love is a Bird
Love is Like a Violin
Love is the Only Fitting Key
Love is the Sweetest Thing
Love Letters
Love Me Or Leave Me
Love Song at Sunset
Love Song for a Vampire
Love Walked In
Love Will Find a Way
Lovely Day (Bill Withers)
Love’s Words
Lulajże Jezuniu
Ma Evening Star
Mad About the Boy
Maids When You’re Young
Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace
Manhattan
March of the Women
March Winds and April Showers
Marcheta
Margarita
Margie
Maria La O 
Mas Que Nada
Me and Jane in a Plane
Me, Me and None but Me (Dowland)
Meeres Stille
Meet Me In St Louis
Mein Herz Brennt (Rammstein)
Memories Very Pleasant and Rather Sad (Ives)
Memory from Cats
Mędrcy Świata
Metaphor (In Flames)
Misery (Green Day)
Mister Sandman
Mister Sun (Avril Coleridge-Taylor)
Misty
Mon Coeur s’Ouvre a ta Voix
Monks and Raisins
Mood Indigo
Moondance
Moonglow
Moonlight Bay
Moonlight in Vermont
Moonlight Serenade
Moonstruck
Morgen
Mortal City
Mr Wu’s a Window Cleaner Now
Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud
Music (I Pant for the Music which is Divine)
Muskrat Love
My Ain Folk 
My Body is a Cage
My Cousin in Milwaukee
My Curly-Headed Baby
My Favourite Things
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
My Lagan Love
My Old Dutch
My Shining Hour
My Silent Love
My Sister and I
Myfanwy
Mythical Kings and Iguanas
Nacht und Traume
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Never on a Sunday
News Clippings
Night and Day
Nina (Noel Coward)
Nina (Tre giorni son che Nina) 
No More Shall Meads Be Deck’d With Flowers
Nobody’s Sweetheart Now
Non So Piu Cosa Son (Marriage of Figaro)
Northern Lights
Northwest Passage
Norwegian Wood
Not Mine
Now I Have to Call Him Father
Nutshell (Alice in Chains)
Nuvoletta (Barber)
O Holy Night (with mandocello)
O Little Town of Bethlehem
O Ma Lyre Immortelle (Sapho)
O Mio Fernando (Donizetti)
O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion
O Tuneful Voice
Ocean Eyes
Oh Danny Boy
Oh, Donna Clara
Oh Mistress Mine (Quilter)
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Ohne Dich (Rammstein)
Ombra mai Fu
On a Clear Day
On My Sleeve (Creed)
On the Nickel
On the Street Where You Live (My Fair Lady)
On the Sunny Side of the Street
One Day Like This (Elbow)
One Life To Live (Weill)
One Mint Julep
One Moment in Time
Only a Glass of Champagne
Only a Lock of Hair
Only You (Yazoo)
Or What Have You
Our Song
Out of the Dusk to You
Out Upon it, I Have Loved
Pa- Pa- Pa- Papageno
Padstow May Song
Parachutiste
Parlami d’Amore, Mariu
Pasadena
Patience (Take That)
Peaceful Day (Pennywise)
Peg O’ My Heart
Pennies from Heaven
Penny Serenade
Perhaps (Dorothy Forster, 1907)
Perhaps Love
Piangero la Sorte Mia (from Giulio Cesare)
Pick Me Up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland
Plaisir d’Amour
Play Fiddle Play
Poor Butterfly
Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Prelude to a Kiss
Put the Blame on Mame
Quand l’Amour Meurt
Que Sera Sera
Quiet Nights and Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
Rackety-Coo
Radio Nowhere
Ragtime Echoes
Rain on the Roof
Rainbow Connection (Muppet movie)
Ramona
Rastlose Liebe (Schubert)
Reconciliation
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Red River Valley (incorporating Happy Birthday with autoharp)
Red River Valley (incorporating Happy Birthday with mandolin) 
Redwing
Rhapsodie en Forme de Habanera
Ring Out Ye Bells
River
Romanza
Rosamunde
Roses of Picardy
Roulette by System of a Down
Run by Snow Patrol
Russian Lullaby
Sabbath Morning at Sea
Sally Wheatley
Sand in my Shoes
Satellite of Love
Scarborough Fair
Scarlet Ribbons
Schwarz (Rammstein)
Se (Cinema Paradiso)
Secrets of the Old
See Liberty, Virtue and Honour
Sei Nicht Bös
Send in the Clowns
Serenade in Blue
Serenade in the Night
Shadows on the Moon (Romburg)
Shall We Dance (the King and I)
Shallow
She Moved Through the Fair’
She Never Told Her Love
Shenandoah
Shepherds’ Farwell
Shine On Harvest Moon 
Si Dolce e’l Tormento
Si, mi Chiamani Mimi (Boheme)
Si Tu Vois Ma Mere
Sighing Softly to the River (Pirates of Penzance)
Sighing Softly to the River (Deluxe version in a boat!)
Silent Night (vocal duet, with accordion)
Silent Night (with harp) 
Silent Noon 
Silver Wings in the Moonlight
Sink, Red Sun
Sir Duke
Sisters
Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga
Skye Boat Song
Skylark
Slow Fox (from a History of the The Dansant)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Snow (Hey Oh)
So Deep Is the Night
So in Love  
So Little Time and So Much to Do
Soave sia il Vento (Cosi fan Tutte) 
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
Softly Sighing by the River (Pirates of Penzance)
Some Enchanted Evening (piano)
Some Enchanted Evening (ukulele & accordion)
Some Folk Do
Some Little Bug is Going to Find You Some Day
Somebody Would Shout Out ‘Shop’!
Someone to Care For Me
Someone to Watch Over Me
Something Stupid, with ukulele and slide guitar
Something Stupid, duet, with acoustic bass guitar
Somewhere, My Love (Dr Zhivago)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Song to the Siren
Songbird 
Sonne (Rammstein)
Sonnenstrahl
Sousa’s Washington Post March
Spring Herring Run
Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
St Louis Blues
Stardust
Stars Fell on Alabama
Steppin’ Out With My Baby
Stopping by Woods on a Summer Evening (Frostiana)
Stranger in Paradise  
Strawberry Fields Forever
Stravinsky Four Russian Songs
     1. Drake 
     2. Spiritual
     3. Ducks, Swans, Geese
     4. Tilimbom
Strike Up the Band
Suicide is Painless (M*A*S*H) 
Summertime
Sunday Girl
Sunshine After the Rain
Superstition 
Sure on this Shining Night
Sweet Chance That Led My Steps Abroad
Sweet Child Of Mine
Sweet Georgia Brown
Sweet Melody of Night
Sympathy (1912)
Sympathy (1969)
T’aint No Sin
Take Me To The Alley
Take Me To Your Heart Again (Vie en Rose in English)
Take On Me
Talk To Me of Mendocino
Tangerine
Tango Notturno
Tango Pasodoble from Walton’s Facade
Te Quiero Dijiste
Tears
Tears in Heaven
Tears of a Clown
Tentacles and Tumbleweeds
That’s All
The Anacreontic Song
The Ballad of Billie Joe
The Beautiful Changes
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
The Bird on Nellie’s Hat
The Blanket on the Ground (with electric guitar)
The Blanket on the Ground (with harp)
The Call (Vaughan Williams)
The Christians and the Pagans
The Circus Band
The Cold Song (Purcell) 
The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon, and Me
The Cot Where We Were Born
The Darktown Strutters Ball 
The Dawn Will Bring a Brighter Day
The Fields of Athenry
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
The Garden Where the Praties Grow
The Girl I Knew
The Glow Worm (with toy pianos)
The Glow Worm (German + English + Mills Brothers)
The Green Fields of France
The Holmfirth Anthem (Pratty Flowers)
The Holy City
The Housatonic at Stockbridge (Ives) 
The House of the Rising Sun
The Impossible Dream (12 string)
The Impossible Dream (piano and toy piano)
The Jute Mill Song 
The Last Rose of Summer
The Longest Time
The Lullaby of Birdland (in French Pays des Oiseaux)
The Lullaby of Broadway
The Man That Got Away
The Man Who Plays the Mandolino
The Man With the Child In His Eyes
The Mole End Carol 
The Mountains O’Mourne
The Old Bullock Dray
The Old Churchyard
The Oldest Swinger in Town 
The Only Living Boy in New York
The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You
The Parting Glass
The Patriot Game
The Preacher and the Bear
The Pushbike Song
The Quilt that my Grandmother Made
The Reaper and the Flowers
The River
The Road to Calvary
The Rose
The Salley Gardens
The Stars Above (Eric Coates)
The Streets of Laredo
The Sunshine Of Your Smile
The Temper of a Maid
The Third Man Theme
The Thirty-First of June
The Trees They Grow So High
The Waters of March
The Way, the Life
The Way We Were
The Wedding of the Painted Doll
The Wellerman
The White Rose of Athens
The Wichita Lineman
The Wild Rover (No Nay Never)
The Witch and the Wizard
There Are Fairies at the Bottom of Our Garden
There’ll be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover
There is Always Something Fishy About the French
These Boots Are Made For Walking
They Don’t Propose
They’re Red Hot
Things Are Looking Up (Gershwin) 
This Old Man 
This Will Be Our Year
Those Were the Days
Throw Your Arms Around Me
Till You Looked Up
Tiptoe Thru the Tulips
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
To God Be the Glory
Tom Bowling
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra, an Irish Lullaby
To You (Rorem) 
Trains and Boats and Planes
Tribute (Tenacious D) 
Tu Vuo Fa l’Americano
Twelve o’Clock at Night
Twilight Time
Two Days
Two Hearts Are Better Than One
Until The End
Urlicht
Valerie
Valse a Mille Temps (in English Days of the Waltz)
Verbovaya Doshchechka
Vilja
Vo Solcando un Mar Crudele
Volare
Von Ewiger Liebe
Walc Francois
Walk on By 
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
We Didn’t Start the Fire
We Have Met Before
Weave and Mend
We’ll Meet Again
Were I With You
What a Little Moonlight Can Do 
What a Mouth
What a Wonderful World
What Child Is This
What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes at Me For?
What Have they Done to the Rain?
What is Life (Orfeo)
What is Next? 
When David Heard that Absalom was Slain
When Day is Done
When Fall Comes To New England
When I am Laid in Earth
When I Look in Your Eyes
When I Lost You
When I’m Cleaning Windows
When I’m Sixty-Four nylon guitar
When I’m Sixty-Four Double Bass & foot tambourine
When We Were Two Little Boys
Where are the Songs We Sung
Where are You Now my Love
Where Corals Lie
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Where My Caravan Has Rested
Whistling in the Dark
White Wings
Whither Must I Wander
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Why Can’t This Night Go On Forever
Why Don’t You Do Right
Why Don’t You Fall in Love With Me
Wien, du Stadt Meiner Träume
Wild Mountain Thyme
Willie O’ Winsbury 
Willow Weep for Me
Will He Be Waiting For Me 
Wind Beneath My Wings
Winter Wonderland
Wir Sind Verloren (Wanda)
Wish You Were Here
With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair
Withered and Died
Without Your Love
Yama Yama Man 
You Are My Sunshine
You Couldn’t Be Cuter
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
You Only You
You Oughta Be in Pictures
You Wanna Keep Your Baby Lookin’ Right
You’d Be Surprised
Youkali (with oud)
Youkali (with mandocello)
You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
You’re the One That I Want
You’ve Got a Friend
You’ve Got a Friend in Me
Your Song
You’re A Mean One Mr Grinch
Za Późno (with contraguitar)
Za Pozno (with archtop guitar)
Zagraj Mi Znow
Zigeuner (Noel Coward’s Bittersweet)
Zorba’s Dance
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  1. Ken Mathews Says:

    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

  2. ERNEST BARTON Says:

    I asked for IN DARKNESS LET ME DWELL by JOHN DOWLAND published 1610 apparently but I really hope it was actually written before then and Queen Elizabeth who died in 1603 at least heard it because I always think Patricia sings it as Gloriana herself might have when free from fortune and mens eyes – Notoriously insomniac and plagued by terrible dreams when she did at last doze off. a tormented spirit full of righteous anger and secret gnawing guilt. I have always found the Renaissance lute a strange shell of death as it exists in Europe – it was clearly designed as a parlour instrument because even birdsong will drown it let alone a soaring Mezzo . What Matt gives us here is a kind of Mythic – Dowland fled from the Court of King James I to the Ottoman Porte. James was a Protestant a pedant and a graceless bogey picking bore. Dowland was a Catholic so he had to go as many others did. He spent time in Denmark and The Empire He might have sailed to Constantinople. THIS IS THE TURKISH VERSION Matt plays an Oud the lutes great grandfather, much louder fretless and built for melodic improvisation. Patricia even chose a dress that looks 16th Century Turkish a lot more comfortable than the stand up by themselves monstrance’s of Elizabeth’s reign. I was surprised I had overthought the event and it turned out as something new and brighter despite the melancholy words obsessed by death .

  3. ERNEST BARTON Says:

    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.

  4. ERNEST BARTON Says:

    Patricia I just listened to the latest home concert. I had been a little concerned about the later verses of ‘My Lagan Love’ as it gets a lot steamier round verse three or four and becomes just the kind of thing an old Irish Baritone that had too much the drink taken, would pull his vulcanised rubber teeth out for.
    “Her warm kiss is felicity that knows no trace of sin”
    I need not have worried you sensed its ancient barbaric roots and sang it like a high priestess in the depths of the great tumulus at New Grange reinforced by Matts eerie thundering BASS. If ever an instrument created its own mythic space its that one. And then the strange words the old aural similes the bogwood fire all fitted in a Song of Hearts desire.
    I think it’s one of your great gifts that you can hold and hold those long notes and then slowly bend them like gold wires without losing forward momentum.

  5. NHPR Folk Music Events Calendar 8/23/20 – Warta Saya Says:

    […] Extensive list of songs performed in recent weeks: individual songs: http://patriciahammond.com/requests/  performances: […]

  6. ERNEST BARTON Says:

    I just watched and heard the latest recital and have no fears ‘HOW LONG GREAT GOD’ sounds like the masterwork it is and your nose probably itched from delivering that disembodied angel head voice with all its ornaments glittering and every single word as clear as glass. I think the earthy rumble and density of the organ counterpointed the vocal swirls wonderfully – the Melotron does a grand impersonation without the bulk and mass of a pipe organ – I need to listen again, for the harpsichord now I am not worried about the words . As Matt said at the end it is a perfect document of its time – the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. The upward Baroque gaze of “Points again to Thee” was a perfect touch. From now on you TOTALLY OWN THIS as a finisher or an Encore or even as a Funeral Song

  7. NHPR Folk Music Events Calendar 8/23/20 – Celebrity Land Says:

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  8. ERNEST BARTON Says:

    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.

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  10. ERNEST BARTON Says:

    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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