"A Carolina Christmas"
Various Artists
live at
The Biltmore Estate
Asheville, North Carolina USA
December 18, 2009
National Public Radio/
WCRB HD-FM Boston broadcast
December 24, 2011


A Carolina Christmas
from the Biltmore Estate with Kathy Mattea;
Appalachian folk traditions, African-American spirituals, Celtic jigs, and more from America�s largest private home, The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.


Performers:
Kathy Mattea and her band
VOX Choral Ensemble; David Tang, Director
Celtic and Baroque band The Beggar Boys
Abigail Haynes Lennox, soprano
Catrina Pegues, mezzo-soprano


"A Carolina Christmas, With Kathy Mattea
December 18, 2009 - Direct from the largest room in the largest private home in the country, WDAV and NPR present "A Carolina Christmas From Biltmore Estate, With Kathy Mattea" � a new special featuring classic and contemporary holiday songs.

The tradition of Christmas music at Biltmore Estate goes back to 1895, when on Christmas Eve, George Washington Vanderbilt officially opened his Asheville, N.C., vacation home � a sprawling French chateau surrounded by 8,000 acres of beautiful views of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Grammy Award-winning singer Kathy Mattea and her band perform on a temporary stage set up in the Biltmore Banquet Hall beneath a 70-foot ceiling, surrounded by ancient tapestries and suits of armor, in front of a triple fireplace 30 feet across. With them, the choir VOX and the Celtic group The Beggar Boys perform new arrangements of songs from her two Christmas CDs, "Good News" and "Joy for Christmas Day". There are also traditional carols and up-tempo gospel tunes on the program, with guest singers Abigail Haynes Lennox and Catrina Pegues.

The show was recorded in front of a live audience with Jennifer Foster, midday host at Classical Public Radio 89.9 WDAV in Davidson, N.C., as emcee. Mattea says she's usually touring leading up to Christmas, and that the number of seasonal songs she performs each year has been gradually growing, with many of the well-known carols she's recorded arranged by her guitarist, Bill Cooley.

"A Carolina Christmas" mixes familiar Christmas carols like "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "I Saw Three Ships" with more recent holiday songs such as "Mary Did You Know?," "Good News," "Unto Us a Child Is Born" and "Straw Against the Chill." VOX conductor David Tang has provided new choral arrangements, accompanied by the fiddles, cello, guitar and pennywhistles of The Beggar Boys.

Mattea's band includes Bill Cooley on guitars, bassist Rick Blackwell and percussionist Jim Brock. Although she got her start in Nashville, and is often identified as a country singer, Mattea says she doesn't like to be pigeonholed into any one genre. She's been interested in Celtic folk music for many years, and during the concert played an Irish whistle on a song or two, joining Michael Albert of the Beggar Boys.

The concert comes to you from the magnificent Banquet Hall of Biltmore Estate, America�s largest private home, built by George Vanderbilt more than 100 years ago. First opened to friends on Christmas Eve 1895, this French Renaissance chateau is a veritable museum of original art, 16th-century tapestries, and priceless antiques. It is open to the public for tours � but very few people in the last 90 years have had the privilege of hearing music performed in that grand hall."
-npr.org


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94:32 minutes

tracklisting:


Disc 1 64:57 minutes
101 radio intro 0:39
102 Traditional: "I Saw Three Ships" 3:43
(arr. Kathy Mattea, Bill Cooley, David Tang)
Kathy Mattea, vocals and whistle; Bill Cooley, guitar; Rick Blackwell, bass and vocals; Jim Brock, percussion; Larry Young, fiddle; Michael Albert, whistles; Henry Lebedinsky, mandolin; VOX choral ensemble

103 intro 2:20

104 Johann A.P. Schulz : "Thou Child Divine" 2:52
Larry Young, Baroque violin; Michael Albert, Baroque violin; Brian Howard, cello; Henry Lebedinsky, harpsichord; VOX choral ensemble, David Tang, conductor

105 Mark Sedio: "Let Our Gladness Have No End" 2:12
Michael Albert, Baroque violin; Brian Howard, cello; Henry Lebedinsky, harpsichord; VOX choral ensemble, David Tang, conductor

106 intro 1:14

107 Traditional: "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" 3:49 (arr. Elizabeth Poston)
VOX choral ensemble, David Tang, conductor

108 Traditional: "Cherry Tree Carol" 4:43
(arr. Henry Lebedinsky)
Abigail Haynes Lennox, soprano; Larry Young, fiddle; Michael Albert, fiddle; Henry Lebedinsky, Irish guitar

109 John Jacob Niles: "I Wonder as I Wander" 3:44
(arr. by Christopher Delp)
VOX choral ensemble, David Tang, conductor

110 intro 2:06

111 Rob Matthes: "Good News" 6:28
(arr. by David Tang)
Kathy Mattea, vocals; VOX choral ensemble, David Tang, conductor; Brian Howard, cello

112 intro 0:36
113 Bob Franke: "Straw Against the Chill" 5:12
Kathy Mattea, vocals and guitar; Bill Cooley, guitar; Rick Blackwell, bass; Jim Brock, percussion; Michael Albert, whistles

114 Craig Bickhardt and Thom Schuyler:
"Unto Us a Child Is Born" 3:13
(arr. David Tang)
Kathy Mattea, vocals and whistle; Bill Cooley, guitar; Rick Blackwell, bass; Jim Brock, percussion; Michael Albert, whistles; Henry Lebedinsky, mandolin; VOX choral ensemble, David Tang, conductor

115 intro 1:55

116 Adolphe Adam: "O Holy Night" 3:58
Abigail Haynes Lennox, soprano; Henry Lebedinsky, organ

117 intro 2:06
The Beggar Boys
118 Traditional: "Christmas Eve" 4:46
119 Traditional: "Ships are Sailing" 4:43
withAbigail Haynes Lennox, soprano
120 Traditional: "Collier's Reel" 3:50
(all arranged by The Beggar Boys:
Henry Lebedinsky, guitar; Larry Young, fiddle; Michael Albert, fiddle)
121 outro 0:36


Disc 2 29:35 minutes

201 intro 1:50
202 Javier Busto: "Ave Maria" 2:21
VOX choral ensemble, David Tang, conductor

203 Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene:
"Mary Did You Know?" 3:22
(arr. by David Tang)
Kathy Mattea, vocals and guitar; Bill Cooley, guitar; Rick Blackwell, bass; Jim Brock, percussion; Michael Albert, whistles; VOX choral ensemble

204 Marten Lauridsen: "O Magnum Mysterium" 5:23
VOX choral ensemble, David Tang, conductor

205 outro 1:08

206 intro 0:21
207 Traditional:
"Glory Halleluia to the Newborn King" 2:24
(arr. by Mark Butler)
Catrina Pegues, mezzo-soprano;
VOX choral ensemble, David Tang, conductor

208 Trad: "Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child" 3:06 (arr. by David Tang and Bill Cooley)
Catrina Pegues, mezzo-soprano; Bill Cooley, guitar; Rick Blackwell, bass; Jim Brock, percussion;
VOX choral ensemble
209 outro 0:32

210 John W. Work: "Go Tell it On the Mountain" 2:54 (arr. by Kathy Mattea, Bill Cooley and David Tang)
Kathy Mattea, vocals; Catrina Pegues, mezzo-soprano; Abigail Haynes Lennox, soprano; Bill Cooley, guitar; Rick Blackwell, bass; Jim Brock, percussion; Larry Young, fiddle; Michael Albert, fiddle, whistles; Brian Howard, cello; Henry Lebedinsky, mandolin; VOX choral ensemble
211 outro 0:38

212 encore intro 0:22
213 Traditional: "Christ Child Lullabye" 4:28
(arr. by Kathy Mattea and Dougie MacLean)
Kathy Mattea, vocals and guitar; Bill Cooley, guitar; Michael Albert, fiddle; VOX choral ensemble; Abigail Haynes Lennox, soprano
214 outro 0:40




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info

http://www.mattea.com/

http://artsmarketing.org/bio/profile/tang-david

http://www.beggarboys.com/

http://www.americanbach.org/Artists/HaynesAbigail.htm

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/entertainment/catrina-pegues/nG9mR/

Video trailer with still photos:
http://vimeo.com/6724704

http://www.biltmore.com/

http://carolinachristmas.org/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121476955

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wonder_as_I_Wander

http://www.john-jacob-niles.com/

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/c/h/schulz_jap.htm

http://www.cph.org/m-106-mark-sedio.aspx

http://www.robmathes.com/

http://www.bobfranke.com/

http://www.craigbickhardt.com/

http://thomschuyler.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Adam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Busto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lowry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Greene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_Lauridsen

http://johnworkfoundation.org/

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