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01. The Almanac
02. Fault Lines
03. England To Her Sons
04. The Sergeant Majors Having a Time
05. The burning Mill at Messines / The Bloody Fields of Flanders
06. Ao Tea Roa
07. Along the Menin Road
08. Lloyd Georges Beer
09. Goodbye Dolly Gray
10. Down Upon the Dugout Floor
11. Marching, Marching, Marching
12. Chorus Line / When the Moon Shines Bright on Charlie Chaplin
13. Soldier Soldier
14. Little Man Youve Had A Busy Day / Standing in Line
15. Roses of Picardy
16. Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire
17. When This Blasted War is Over
18. The Rhyme of No Mans Land
19. Ticklers Jam
20. Onward CHristian Soldiers
21. Living It Up
22. Peace on Earth
23. Tyne Cot at Night / I Want To Go Home
24. We're here Because We're Here
25. Shule Agra
26. Rogues March
27. Flaners
28. Good Old General Haig
29. Can you Spare a Poppy
30. 1815 - 1915
31. Mendinghem / Bandaghem
32. Thers A Long Long Trail
33. Do You Want Us To Lose The War
34. Carol For Carmen
35. Keep Your Head Down
36. The Sergeant & The Serving Girl
37. Fred Karnos Army
38. Robins Song
39. Still In The Night
40. The Sailors Wife
41. Hill 60
42. Shuffling Jack
43. Rose of No Mans Land
44. The VADs
45. Perhaps
46. Lay Me Low
47. Marchlands
48. Spring 1919
49. The Almanac
50. Only Remembered

Released 4 August

Peace has been a recurring theme of the powerful and distinctive singing and songwriting of the English acappella trio Barry Coope, Jim Boyes and Lester Simpson. It was the strength of their writing about the events of the First War that first led Piet Chielens, now Co-ordinator of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, to commission them to perform and compose music for the Flemish arts organisation, Peace Concerts Passendale in 1993. They eventually took part in five different Peace Concert productions in Belgium and England, performing on former battlefields like Hill 60, among the memorials at Tyne Cot and at the request of the town of Passendale for their eightieth anniversary commemoration of the battle of Passchendaele. These experiences then inspired their words and music production, In Flanders Fields, which combines their own writing with the biting humour of the Tommies' wartime observations and music. Songs like Jim Boyes, Flanders and Lester Simpson's, Standing in Line and Barry Coope's singing of Robin's Song were also the reason that the author Michael Morpurgo asked them to join him in concert performances of his novel Private Peaceful, with its message of the futility of war and later, in the adaptation of The Best Christmas Present in the World, his story about the Christmas Truce of 1914. In Flanders Fields is the culmination of this involvement, bringing together newly written songs, existing and first time recordings of songs from Peace Concerts Passendale and songs and music of the War to end all Wars.

August 2014

Coope Boyes & Simpson - In Flanders Fields (2 CD)

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