Hang Up Sorrow and Care is an album by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.

[2][3] Released in 1995, it is a loose concept album, with renditions of songs that were written hundreds of years ago.

[4][5] Stereo Review stated: "Ballads and dances to the heart and the bottle are expertly played in a trad setting that features such instruments as lute, recorder, hoboy, curtal, kazoo, and 'ye great dooble bass'.

"[7] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch deemed Hang Up Sorrow and Care "the most inspired drinking album of the digital era.

"[8] AllMusic wrote that "Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band have made a real party album, of witty, upbeat traditional songs from the British Isles.