Reading Carol, sung by the Kennet Morris Men

This is the sound of the Kennet Morris Men singing what is known as the "Reading Carol" AKA sumer is icumen in. The piece is a canon for several voices that dates from the mid-thirteenth century and survives in a manuscript from Reading Abbey. It celebrates the incoming summer. It celebrates the sounds of summer and singing it on the 1st of May has become something of a tradition amongst this Morris Side. Recorded with sound professional binaural microphones and my trust Edirol R-09.