I owe so much to Lucy Bunce; It was thanks to Lucy’s persistence that I became harp teacher at King’s College School  some years back when Lucy was assistant Head of Music there. She went on to become a dear and generous friend who was to support me in many more ways than I could have predicted and dedicated a Christmas album of her songs to me. 

Lucy has been much more than a teacher in her musical career; She is Director of Music at St Andrew’s, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge. She is studying (online) for an MLitt in the Bible and Contemporary World at St Andrew’s University.

Lucy sings beautifully and accompanies herself at the same time on the harp and believe me, that takes some doing! Her arrangements and songs  radiate her Christian faith. They are really imaginative and oh, so tuneful! So much so, that Songs of Praise featured her song ‘Bless the Hands that Bless’ in one of their programmes 2021 which showed support and gratitude to all the NHS medics who steered us through the horrendous Covid pandemic. If you were not lucky enough to hear the song back then you can listen on YouTube or watch the programme [see references at the bottom of the page].

When Lucy asked me in 2020 whether I would record some of her songs for her to hear (amongst which was Sweet Bells) Lucy came to my house and recorded this and the other solos and I asked her permission to use the recording of Sweet Bells for a surprise I wanted to give. 

The surprise of course was inclusion of Sweet Bells in the 2020 Advent calendar.

So here in homage and thanks to Lucy and in order to share her lovely creativity and generosity with you all is this delightful ear worm.