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Tag Archives: Winter Holiday music
Napfonat’s Égből, Fényből
Napfonat is an energetic and enigmatic female a cappella band from Hungary whose debut album, Szól a világ released by Hangvető in May 2021, was shortlisted for the 2022 Fonogram-Award among the five Best Folk and World Music Albums of … Continue reading
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Lado’s Preveliku Radost Navišćujem Vama (Christmas Songs and Carols of Dalmatia)
This album combines one type of music that I love, Balkan folk, with one type of music I’m not so crazy about, Christmas carols. The Balkan folk music wins this battle of the genres. Lado, the Folk Dance Ensemble of … Continue reading
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Steeleye Span’s Winter
Folk rock and Christmas always seem to go well together. There is a long line of successful seasonal albums incorporating singers and musicians from that field. There have been three from different guises of the Albion Band, two from St … Continue reading
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Cass Meurig’s Crwth
Until this CD showed up in the post, I had no idea that a crwth even existed. Even the members of the Welsh folk punk band, Ymyl Danheddog (Serrated Edge), had no idea what it was, though one of them … Continue reading
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Johnny Coppin’s Keep the Flame, and Laurie Lee & Johnny Coppin’s Edge of Day
That time of year is once again approaching, the time when all singers and groups feel themselves obliged to contribute to the celebrations by releasing seasonal songs and carols. Johnny Coppin (ex-Decameron) made his contribution in 2004, a seven-track-CD suitably … Continue reading
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John Harbison’s Six String Christmas
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. The best word I can think of for this CD is “quaint.” It is nothing more than a single acoustic guitar, and seventeen Christmas carols being expertly played, with rather original additions included in … Continue reading
Donal Hinely’s Midwinter Carols: Fourteen Selections on Glass Harmonica
Every passing year brings more and more Christmas and holiday music to music racks across the country. New recordings, reissues, compilations are on shelves from the local indy music store to the biggest of the big box outlets — there’s … Continue reading
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Tommy Sands’ To Shorten The Winter
No’am Newman wrote this review. This album is subtitled “An Irish Christmas with Tommy Sands,” and most of the disc’s 13 songs revolve vaguely around the Christmas theme of peace and joy, etc. In the case of some of the … Continue reading
Caroline Peyton’s Celtic Christmas Spirit
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. This is quite possibly the one of the most impressive Christmas CDs I have ever run across. It is most certainly not what I had expected. I’d figured another run-of-the-mill Celtic Christmas experience; there … Continue reading
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Trygve Seim and Andreas Utnem’s Christmas Songs
If you’re up for a new jazz-inflected holiday album, Trygve Seim and Andreas Utnem’s Christmas Songs might just do the trick. Especially if you look fondly upon George Winston’s breakthrough album December. Not that it’s very much like that multi-platinum … Continue reading
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