Lakeland Voices from Kendal will be singing a selection of pub carols – including the Sheffield village carols, folk carols, west gallery carols – in The New Union Inn in Kendal. Everyone is welcome to join in with all or part of the songs – many have choruses which are easy to pick up, or contact me to receive scores and/or word booklets. I’ll also make word sheets available at the bar.

Carols include the Boars Head Carol, Pentonville, Diadem, Old Foster, Curly Hark with some well known folk songs which celebrate the sentiment of this season of goodwill in a secular way such as Sing John Ball and Harbour. These are not the carols which you hear in churches at Christmas but are more usually heard in folk clubs, or in village pubs near Christmas in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Everyone is invited – even encouraged – to join in. Many of the songs have choruses which are easy to pick up.

We also sing a number of Slovenian carols which are becoming well known in the Uk such as Glej Zvezdice Božje and Božji nam je rojen Sin.

The event is free, but if you are inspired to do so, please make an online donation to a charity of your choice.