Over the course of 12 years and five studio albums Ninebarrow have earned themselves a quality reputation for their engaging and empathetic songwriting, their imaginative reworkings of traditional songs, their deft musicianship and, most of all, their exquisite vocal harmonies.

 

Now those harmonies have been fused with more than 40 other voices from Hampshire’s Hart Voices (based in Fleet) and Surrey’s Chantry Singers (from Guildford) to create new album The Hour of the Blackbird which sees 13 of Ninebarrow’s finest back catalogue songs renewed and enhanced by the soaring vocals of sopranos, altos, tenors and basses under the energetic musical directorship of Roy Rashbrook, himself a member of the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral.