2020 has been a year like no other. Everyone is glad to see 2021 arrive. For this week’s program, we celebrate the coming new year in a traditional fashion with serious and silly songs about the occasion. We’ll hear Peter and Lou Berryman, Mary Harris, Tommy Sands, Waterson-Carthy, Skinner & T’witch, Kate Taylor and many more. Let’s all celebrate the passage of time … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Anthony Newett / “When the Saints Go Marching In” / Strut / Rittenhouse
Lou & Peter Berryman / “New New Year Year” / Just One Angel v2.0 / Yellow Tail
Nowell Sing We Clear / “Carol for the New Year” / Hail Smiling Morn / Golden Hind
Reid Jamieson / “This Could Be the Year” / Songs fo a Winter’s Night / Self Produced
Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters / “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and
              Understanding” / Christmas on a Greyhound Bus / Organic

Various / “First Day of the Year” / The Gathering / Sycamore Road
Mary Harris / “Happy New Year Blues” / Where Will You Be On Christmas Day / Dust-to-Digital
Skinner & T’witch / “The Drinking Song” / The Bells of Christmas / Self Produced
The Yellow Room Gang / “Happy New Day” / Happy New Day / Yellow Room
Anthony Newett / “Oh Dem Golden Slippers” / Strut / Rittenhouse

Loreena McKennitt / “The Mummer’s Dance” / Live in Paris and Toronto / QR
Tommy Sands / “Whiter Shade of Pale” / An Irish Christmas with Tommy Sands / Green Linnet
Waterson-Carthy / “New Year Carol-Residue” / Holy Heathems amd the Green Man / Topic
Denise Jordan Finley / “Dona Nobis Pacem” / Solstice / Dome Island
Margot Krimmel & Beth Leachman-Gadbaw / “Song of Peace” / Icy December / Whitebirds
Kate Taylor / “Auld Lang Syne” / Auld Lang Syne / Front Door
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways