FIRE
and SLEET and
CANDLELIGHT………
Coope
Boyes & Simpson
Fi
Fraser, Jo Freya and
With
bands of carollers and wassail songs, tales of Mobray Pies and ghosts - and
hospitable customs like Mumping and Clementing, the Winter season in the English
countryside was a time of fireside celebration and travellers’ voices at the
door.
Drawing
on first-hand accounts of old customs, traditional stories and carols from small
towns and villages in the English counties, Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
brings these once common experiences back to life.
The incomparable acappella harmonies of Coope Boyes & Simpson, Fi
Fraser, Jo Freya and Georgina Boyes featured on an album of music from the
production were an outstanding success with audiences on Classic FM, BBC Radio 2
and 3 last Christmas - and led to a sell out live tour in
CONTACT:
georgina@nomasters.co.uk
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Coope
Boyes & Simpson, Fi Fraser, Jo Freya,
Fire
and Sleet and Candlelight: Regional and Historical Carols
(No
Masters NMCD21)
"The powerful, utterly
distinctive harmonies of Coope Boyes and Simpson with the additional vocal tones
of the Fraser Sisters and Georgina Boyes produce a dense, resonant sonority ...
Here are songs from Albion's past to be enjoyed at any season but since it's
that time of year ... light the candles, sit close by the fire and wallow in the
aural gorgeousness of Coope, Boyes, Simpson, Fraser, Freya and Boyes."
BBC Radio 2 website
"Sadly you’re more
likely to hear Slade and Wizzard (the true cause of Seasonal Affective Disorder)
in every damn retail space you enter over the next six weeks than you are this,
a pity really because, unlike 70’s garbage, listening to these songs from
these singers actually makes you feel good about this time of year.
An excellent CD and a pleasure to play repeatedly.” fRoots
Classic Cross-over Success for No Masters
Broadcast of tracks from Fire
and Sleet and Candlelight (No Masters NMCD21) on Natalie Wheen’s Classic
FM programme brought in floods of calls to the station switchboard and bumper
sales for this first album by the new acappella six-piece of Coope Boyes and
Simpson, Fi Fraser, Jo Freya and Georgina Boyes.
What Natalie Wheen described on air as ‘an indecent number’ of
enquiries and hugely positive response from listeners made the album an
immediate best-seller and produced a sell-out at every venue on the promotional
tour. Warm reviews from Mojo and
fRoots - “powerful
distinctive performances… An excellent CD and a pleasure to listen to
repeatedly” also made clear that for Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
genuinely appealed across musical boundaries.
Launched with a concert at
"Folk in the Fall" at The Purcell Rooms on the South Bank,
the performance was also recorded by BBC Radio 3's Late Junction
and live tracks formed part of the programme's Christmas output.
“There are carol
singers and then there are Coope Boyes and Simpson.
Add Georgina Boyes and the two Fraser sister, Jo and Fi, and you have a
combination that manages to put the magic back into Christmas.”