Music and Spoken Word for Yule

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/02/374244797/the-thistle-shamrock-midwinter-musing

December 25, 2014
Program 1648: Midwinter Musing (December 25, 2014) Week 52

Travel into the traditions of midwinter through some spellbinding music of the season.
Da Day Dawn…by Chris Stout from First o’ the Darkenin’ (Greentrax)  
Winter Solstice…by Atwater-Donnelly from When Winter Calls (Rabbit Island Music)   
The Time is Approaching…by Eileen Ivers from An Nollaig ~ An Irish Christmas (Musical Bridge) 
Who Knows Where the Time Goes…by Maggie Reilly from Rowan (Red Berry Records) 
Through the Bitter Frost and Snow…by Susan McKeown and Lindsey Horner from A Winter’s Tale (Celtic Heartbeat)
Variations: Lo, How a Rose E’er Booming…by Turtle Island String Quartet from By the Fireside (Windham Hill)  
The Coming of Winter…by Anúna and the Ulster Orchestra from Behind the Closed Eye (Danú) 
[ID excerpt] Drive the Cold Winter Away…by Sue Richards from Merrily Greet the Time (Maggie’s Music) 
Haul Brothers, Haul!…by Coyote Run from Tend the Fire (Run Wild Records) 
Garçon Á Marier/Orgies Nocturnes/Dans Fisel…by Touchstone from A Thistle & Shamrock Christmas Ceilidh  (Green Linnet)   
The Snows…by Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill and Triona Ní Dhomhnaill from Celtic Christmas III (Windham Hill)
The Slippery Slope/Wullie’s Wopper/Tam the Bam...by Pete Clark from Now & Then (Inver)
Winter Light...by Kenneth Steven from Sanctuary ~ Poems of Celtic Spirituality (Saint Andrew Press)
Return to the Stewartry/Slanttigart/Tame her When da Snaw Comes... by Catriona Macdonald from Bold (Peerie Angel Productions)
The Bitter Withy...by Kerfuffle from Lighten The Dark (Kerfuffle)