The Winter Solstice arrived on December 21st, and this week’s program is a welcome to the Winter season with some wonderful music focusing on this special time of the year. We’ll hear from Gordon Lightfoot, The Early Mays, Honor Finnegan, Fred Gosbee, Herdman-Hills-Mangsen, The Silent Winters and Reid Jamieson. Music for a season of ice and snow … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Episode #19-52: Welcome Winter
Host: Tom Druckenmiller
Artist/”Song”/CD/Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Katie LaRay Waldren / “Cold Frosty Morning” / Cold Frosty Morning / Native Ground
Kieran Kan & Rayna Gellert / “Cold Air” / Ledges / Dead Reckoning
Gordon Lightfoot / “Song for a Winter's Night” / The Way I Feel / United Artists
Pierce Pettis / “In the Bleak Midwinter” / Winter Solstice III / Windham Hill
The Early Mays / “Narrows of the Year” / Chase the Sun / Bird on the Wing
Honor Finnegan / “Snow Day” / Just One Angel v2.0 / Yellow Tail
Social Band / “When the Snows of Winter Fall” / Deep Midwinter / Self Released
Fred Gosbee / “The Night the Whiskey Froze” / The Night the Whiskey Froze / Castlebay
Tony Trischka / “Sleigh Ride” / Glory Shone Around / Rounder
Atwater Donnelly / “Cold Frosty Morning-Growling Old Man Growling Old Woman” / When Winter Calls / Rabbit Island
Herdman-Hills-Mangsen / “More Wood” / Voices of Winter / Gadfly
Herdman-Hills-Mangsen / “Solstice Round” / At the Turning of the Year / Hand & Heart
Kenny Jackson / “The Shortest Day-Set the Log Alight” / The Shortest Day / Crow Hill
John Reischman & the Jaybirds / “While Roving on a Winter's Night” / On a Winter's Night / Corvus
Silent Winters / “Winter Wonderland” / Christmas Morning / Fallen Tree
Reid Jamieson / The Coldest Night of the Year” / Songs for a Winter's Night / Self Produced
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways