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Jingle Bells!

‘Jingle Bells’  is perhaps the most popular Christmas tune of all time, however it’s history and development into the present day version is anything but straightforward. Originally penned and copyrighted by James Lord Pierpont in 1857 under the name of ‘One Horse Open Sleigh’ , the original version is quite different than the one we all [...]

Title for the second Christmas String Quartet disc…..

Well despite the fact that Spring is well and truly in the air, we are hard at work preparing for a second volume of Christmas carols for string quartet. This second album will be a further volume as a follow up to ‘I Saw Three Ships and other carols’ which we released last year. When [...]