Festival and Anthology recordings

Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection
1998 - Rounder CD1719 CD

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Entrance of Father Christmas - Symondsbury Mummer's play

The Twelve Days of Christmas - Bob And Ron Copper

Christmas Rhyme - Ewan MacColl

The Motion Tune - Red Ants

Mari Lywd Ceremony - David Thomas & party

Midwinter Horn Solo - Unknown Dutch player

Aguinaldo - Valencia, Spain buskers, Antonio Riurtos, Jose Arrandia, Jose Caldez, Juan Martoell

Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle - Caggiano pipers

A Warm Drink for the Baby - Seamus Ennis

Taladh An Leinibh Losa (Christ Child Lullaby) - Scottish Crofter group

No Room At the Inn / Last Month of the Year - Vera Ward Hall

Venite Adoremus - Unidentified priest, Abruzzi, Italy

Tan Tan - Manuela Morena

Shepherds Arise - Bob And Ron Copper

La Fils Du Roi De Gloire - Trinidadian Cantique singers

Sherburne - Sacred Harp Singers

Caramiles - Local Group, Ibiza, Spain

Exit Tune From Midnight Mass - Local Group, Ibiza, Spain

Las Doce Por La Virgen - Julio Ramos Polo

Rumanian Midwinter Carol - Local Group, Hunedoara, Rumania

Singing the Travels - Tom Eveleigh

The Gower Wassail Song - Charlie Bate

Mari Lywd Description & Farewell Verse - Margaretta Thomas

Walk Billy Abbot - The Georgia Sea Island Singers

O Day - The Georgia Sea Island Singers

Conch Shell Horn On New Year's Eve in Positano, Italy - Anonymous

New Year's Day Tarantella - Putipu Band of Capri

Capo D' Anno - Ponte Langarino group

Bon Nouvelle - Trinidadian Cantique singers

Breaking Up Christmas - Norma Edmonds

Conclusion of Symondsbury Mummer's Play - Symondsbury Mummer's play

Eounder Records Songs of Christmas From the Alan Lomax Collection was recorded by Alan Lomax and several of his colleagues in Britain, Ireland, Italy, Spain, the Southern U.S. and the Caribbean between 1950 to 1964. At the time, commercial forces were overwhelming local traditions, and many folk cultures stood on the brink of great upheavals that would forever alter their ways of life. Lomax always made a point of seeking out the music that epitomized the old Christmas spirit that was closest to his own heart. English Mummers, Italian bagpipes, lullabies, carols, and stories express the unquenchable fun, faith, and good times of Christmas and the immemorial good-luck rituals of the New Year. With Bob & Ron Copper, Ewan MacColl, Seamus Ennis, Vera Ward Hall, the Alabama Sacred Harp singers, the Georgia Sea Island Singers, the Putipu Band of Capri, Norman Edmonds, the Symondsbury Mummers and many, many more. Containing 31 tracks in all, the album comes with extensive liner notes and photographs and complete song and dialect translations from the Spanish, Italian, Latin and Irish.
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