In this lockdown year of virtual church attendance, my singing chum Niall Weir, rector of St Paul’s West Hackney, asked for musical input to his Christmas service.
Tonight Have Yourself a Stokey Little Christmas will be shown at 6.00pm ( swph.org.uk ) and will remain on YouTube. It’s an hour of festive sung and spoken material, a mix of religious and secular, and not especially Stoke Newington-oriented despite the title. I’m under the secular banner, accompanying him, his daughter Phoebe, myself singing Michael Flanders’s The Wassail of Figgy Duff, and reading a section of A Christmas Carol. Penny reads from Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie.
Colin Sell 