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Midwinter, a celebration of the folk music & traditions of Christmas & the Turning of the Year

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Midwinter

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a celebration of the folk music & traditions of Christmas & the Turning of the Year

Past & present: from ancient cultures to Advent calendars. Gower wassail (first part) (Phil Tanner) (1:53) ; Stopping by woods / Robert Frost (:50) ; A roving on a winter's night (Steve Tilston & Maggie Boyle) (3:56) ; The river (Grace Notes) (3:17) ; Skater's waltz (John Fahey) (1:51) ; Excerpt by Arthur Ransome (:55) ; Excerpt from The prelude (:30) (Jim Lawton) ; Christmas is now drawing near at hand (Lal Waterson) (1:51) ; The spirit of Christmas (Steve Ashley with Tinderbox) (2:39) ; from Hamlet act 1 (Gary Watson) (:10) ; Christmas is a coming (Leadbelly) (1:05) ; Xmas Island (Richard Farina with Blind Boy Grunt & Eric von Schmidt) (3:12) ; The humstrum (David Strawbridge & Tim Laycock) (3:08) ; Sound of your instrumets of joy (Mabe Choir) (2:33) ; Wassail (John Kirkpatrick) (3:08) ; Snow falls (The Albion Band with John Tams) (3:54) ; Wintergrace (Jean Ritchie) (3:24) ; Cherry tree carol (Shirley Collins) (1:20) ; Red & green Christmas (Nadia Cattouse) (2:28) ; Emmanuel (The Watersons) (2:28) ; Song to Mithras (Peter Bellamy) (2:030 ; The meadowhall carol (Coope Boyes & Simpson) (4:32) ; God bless the birthday boy (The McCalmans) (3:18) ; Moving on song (Ewan McCall) (1:15) ; Christmas Eve can kill you (Helen Watson & Suzie Adams) (3:14) ; Workhouse boy (The Halliard) (3:16) ; Snow is on the ground (excerpt) (Eleazor Tillett) (:19) ; Snow is on the ground (Jeff Warner with Barbara Benn) (3:52) ; Christmas comes but once a year (Enoch Kent) (2:18) ; Jack Frost & the hooded crow (Dave Pegg) (3:21) ; The night before Christmas (Mike Hockenhull) (3:05) ; The Christmas tree (Charlie Fretwell) (5:09) -- Comfort & joy: the Nativity in folk and the traditional. Reading: Luke 2:1 (Nigel Schofieldd) (:07) ; While shepherds (Scan Tester) (1:58) ; Christmas must be tonight (Johnny Copin) (5:29) ; On the morning of Christ's Nativity (Jim Lawton) (:25) ; For unto us a child (John McCutcheon) (3:55) ; Shepherds arise (Copper Family) (2:21) ; Reading; Luke 2:8 (Nigel Schofield) (:05) ; Sherburne (Sacred Harp Convention) (1:53) ; Hark hark what news (Singers at the Black Bull) (3:05) ; Reading: Luke 2:7 (Nigel Schofield) (:07) ; Once in royal David's city (Martyn Wyndham Read) (4:21) ; The three harks (Coope Boyes & Simpson) (3:33) ; Wexford carol (Maggie Boyle) (3:57) ; I sing of a maiden (Shirley Collins) (1:53) ; Lullay my liking (Young Tradition) (2:10) ; Silent night (Chloe Coburn, Bernie Parry) (2:05) ; The first Nowell (BaccaPella) (3:10) ; Reading: Matthew 2:1 (Nigel Schofield) (:05) ; Follow that star (St. Agnes Fountain) (4:39) ; Star in the east (brightest and best) (Debra Cowan, John Roberts) (1:52) ; Astrologer's journey (Johnny Coppin) (4:27) ; Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot (:58) ; Follow the star (Maggie Boyle, Gary Boyle) (3:44) ; Herod & the cock (Nowell Sing We Clear) (1:050 ; Reading: Matt 2:18 (Nigel Schofield) (:11) ; Coventry carol (Joan Baez) (1:57) ; The carnal & the crane (New Scorpion Band) (4:19) ; Go tell it on the mountain (Mahalia Jackson) (3:10) ; On Christmas day (May Bradley) (1:29) ; Jesu joy of man's desiring (Druidstone) (4:17) -- Peace & goodwill: the message of midwinter. Fire & wine (Steve Ashley) (4:33) ; In the winter (Laura Hockenhull, John Dipper) (2:41) ; Papa ain't no Santy Claus (Butterbeans & Susie) (3:20) ; Winter flowers (Martha Tilston) (4:37) ; Christmas in prison (Fishken & Groves) (2:57) ; Jogging along with my reindeer (John Kirkpatrick) (4:03) ; Cardboard Christmas boxes (Alan Hull) (2:58) ; First snow in Brooklyn (Jethro Tull) (4:58) ; Lady gay (Buell Kazee) (3:06) ; Peace o'er the world (Bradda anthem) (Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Freya, Fraser & Boyes) ; Oh what a lovely war (excerpt) (:26) ; Christmas 1914 (Mike Harding (4:44) ; Christmas isn't what it used to be (Tim Moon) (3:27) ; Christmas (John Tams) (1:07) ; Ghost of Christmas past (Mandy Morton Band) (3:37) ; Christmas mornin (Loudon Wainwright III) (3:38) ; Days of holly & mistletoe (Artisan) (2:55) ; Huron carol (, Carol Duveneck) (1:57) ; The King (Strawbs with Maddy Prior) (2:40) ; The Christmas hare (Muckram Wakes) (2:24) ; Chariots (John Kirkpatrick) (6:21) ; Remember Bethlehem (Kevin Loughran) (2:39) -- The old & the new: the year's turning. Old Christmas ; Shooting (Nowell Sing We Clear) (4:13) ; Apple tree wassail (The Watersons) (2:39) ; Gloucestershire wassail (Albion Christmas Band) (3:15) ; The oxen (Maddy Prior) (2:50) ; The burning babe (Mike Hockenhull) (3:25) ; Bushes and briars (Sandy Denny) (2:37) ; Poor ditching boy (Richard Thompson) (3:01) ; Reading Clock almanac (Jim Lawton) (:33) ; Dunstan lullaby (Coope Boyes & Simpson) (1:29) ; Watts' cradle hymn (Maddy Prior) (3:27) ; Boar's head carol (Teesside Fettlers) (1:47) ; The grinch (Boris Karloff) (:32) ; Hunting the wren (Joe & Whinifred Woods) (1:40) ; Cutty wren (Ian Campbell Folk Group) (2:26) ; The wren (The King) (Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick) (1:40) ; First Christmas away from home (Artisan) (3:43) ; Miner's dream of home (Fred Whiting) (3:58) ; Symondsbury Mummers (:34) ; Happy Christmas (war is over) We sing Hallelujah (Alan Rose) (3:08) ; None but one (Jean Ritchie) (6:16) ; Mari Llwyd (John Clough) (1:09) ; Carol for the new year (Nowell Sing We Clear) (4:07) ; The oxplough song (Johnny Collins) (3:14) ; Three ships suite (Steve Tilston) (9:38) ; Gower wassail (reprise) (Phil Tanner) (:39) ; Midnight chimes (:57) ; The January man (Martin Carthy) (4:58)

Celebration of the folk music & traditions of Christmas & the Turning of the Year