The 2009 Folk Carol Service


Order for the 32nd Traditional Folk Carol Service
St. Clement’s Church, Leigh-on-Sea;  Sunday 13th. Dec. 2009 6.30 – 8.00 p.m.  

The items marked * were featured in BBC Radio 2's 'Keeping Tradition Alive at Christmas', broadcast on Christmas Eve 2009

Play-in: The Famous Potatoes  (Folk carol tunes)

* Introit:   Peter Monk: Tomorrow will be my Dancing Day; Lullay my Liking; Rejoice and be merry

* Solo:    John Boden and Jack Forbes: Welcome

Welcome, and bidding prayer

* 26    Shepherds Arise 

Chorale: Foxen: El Noi de la Mare (Catalan); The Friendly Beasts

     * 3 Sans Day Carol

* Solo:  John Coppins: Cherry Tree Carol  Part 1

     * 15   Cherry Tree Carol Part 2

Solo: Roy Brown: The Carnal and the Crane; A wonder thing to see (Breton)

Reading: Peter Monk: Matthew 2:1-12

 29 Star of Bethlehem

Solo: Suzanne Higgins:  Fieldmice's Carol  (Folk Carols 24); A Christmas Carmen

     7 In Bethlehem City

Peter Monk & Jack Forbes: * Carol for Leigh; Carol for the World

      27 Wren’s Carol

Honeygales: * Ane song of the birth of Christ; Huron carol; Quelle est cette odeur agreable?

Announcements; Offertory; Collect for Christmas and Lord’s Prayer: Ken MacKinnon

     * 18 Sunny Bank led by: Solo:  John Coppins

Solo: Chrissy King: New Star Shining; In the Bleak Midwinter

Carol: * 23 Hymn of the Three Kings (Suzanne Higgins solo first verse, congregation with the rest)

Address : Roger Folley, lay reader

   Carol: Nos Galan (omitted due to time constraints)

* Instrumental: John Smith: ‘Surge of Sea’ for the Dunkirk and New Road Memorials

* Solo: Padstow Farewell Shanty (49)  - John Coppins

Blessing : Luke 2:29-32 Ken MacKinnon

    * 47 While Shepherds Watched

* Playout:  The Famous Potatoes (Carol medley)


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