A carol for New Year's Day

from Old Christmas Returned by Passamezzo

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17thC New Year ballad

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A carol for New-Year’s Day
The young men and maids on New Year's Day, their loves they will present
With many a gift both fine and gay, which gives them true content:
And though the gift be great or small, yet this is the custom still
Expressing their loves in ribbons and gloves, it being their kind good-will.
Fine ruffs, cravats of curious lace maids give them fine and neat;
For this the young men will them embrace with tender kisses sweet:
And give them many pleasant toys to deck them fine and gay,
As bodkins and rings with other fine things for the honour of New Year's day.
A Cabinet of Choice Jewels, or The Christian's Joy and Gladness, 1688

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from Old Christmas Returned, released March 2, 2017
Eleanor Cramer: Bass Viol
Robin Jeffrey: Lute
Alison Kinder: Recorder
Tamsin Lewis: Renaissance Violin
Michael Palmer: Baritone

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Passamezzo London, UK

London based early music ensemble specialising in English 16th and 17th repertoire.

Early modern music, song, ballads, theatre & dance. Viols, lute, voices, violin, recorders, harp. Christmas, Elizabethan, Tudors, Stuarts

Part of the intercultural project 'Shore to Shore', working with Moroccan Sufi musicians, Ensemble Mogador.
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