Over on The Oysterband board everyone is swooning over the music of Coope Boyes & Simpson...it's GREAT!! ;0)

I enjoyed the programme hugely, it was just like being back in that beautiful Chapel in Frome recently, except that Norma was there as well.

It should have been at least an hour though or even longer...and it should be made into a DVD as well! Someone mentioned on the Radio 2 board that there is also a 'Harvest Home' concert, along the same lines. Let's hear that on the radio again, as well....and have a DVD of that too please. ;0)

http://www.coopeboyesandsimpson.co.uk/harvest_home.htm

Cover the whole country in their music, their stories and their passion for what they're doing. Bring back our traditions and our songs. Take them into our schools and give them BACK to our children who are missing out on so very, very much of what is theirs.

And then there's the First World War concert as well, which I'd love to see on BBC 1 on Rememberance Sunday.

http://www.coopeboyesandsimpson.co.uk/the_first_world_war.htm

Their music is so very beautiful and so very, very important. And yet....they've never won a Folk Award! Not that I'm into the Folk Awards much anymore, but for these awesome singers/musicians, who obviously care so deeply about the standard of their music and performance, who are keeping alive our past and our traditions, to have been SO overlooked makes no sense whatsoever....and the people who run the Folk Awards should be hanging their heads in shame!!

Sorry...but since I've discovered their music I get utterly incensed about that!

If you buy one CD this year...then make it 'Hindsight' or 'What We Sing Is What We Are' and I'll bet that hearing them sing '10,000 miles' will make you stand absolutely still, no matter what you are doing. And LISTEN to the words of 'Jerusalem Revisited'....and weep....and then there's 'Shallow Brown' and oh..so many, many more!

I'm so very glad to have found their music. And you know what? My children, aged 11 and 19, love their songs as much as we do! So there you go, Coope Boyes & Simpson cross all age barriers and prove that when something is done so excellently and with a lot of love, then everyone will prick up their ears and listen.

AND...don't forget that Lester Simpson and Mick Peat present a two hour folk programme called 'Folkwaves' over on Radio Derby, every Monday evening from 7pm - 9pm...where you can hear a huge and brilliant variety of music and some great nattering as well! ;0)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/entertainment/music/features/folkwaves_programme_feature.shtml

BUT..it doesn't have a 'Listen Again' button at the moment, so you have to tune in live! AND..whilst you're there listening, drop a line to the head of Radio Derby and tell them to get that 'Listen Again' button put in!! ;0)

And as the poster above stated...I'm nothing to do with 'NoMasters' either...I simply fell instantly in love with their music one day and the rest...as they say...is history...(quite literally in Coope Boyes & Simpon's case, for they bring the past right into the present!)

Apologies for rambling...

Lizzie :0)