This week on The Sing Out Radio Magazine we welcome Winter with Solstice tunes from Magpie and Jesse Palidofsky, Winter tunes from Peter Ostroushko and The Claire Lynch Band and a set of Celtic songs welcoming in the Darkest Season. Next week we welcome the New Year with songs written especially for the holiday and a good long dance set to welcome it in.

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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Tony Elman / “Winter Creek” / Winter Creek / Acorn
Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum / “Earth Moves in a Mysterious Way” / Winter’s Grace / Signature Sounds
Jesse Palidofsky / “Dancing Toward the Light” / Holiday Snowflakes / Azalea City
Sue Richards & Maggie Sansone / “Swallowtail Jig” / Merrily Greet the Times / Maggies Music
Magpie / “Solstice Carol” / Last Month of the Year / Sliced Bread

Peter Ostroushko / “Horizontal Hold” / Blue Mesa / Red House
Joel Mabus / “One Horse Open Sleigh” / How Like the Holly / Fossil
Kitty Donohoe / “Winter Dark” / Happy New Day / Yellow Room
The Claire Lynch Band / “Snow Day” / Holiday / Thrill Hill
Tony Elman / “The Little Snowman” / Winter Creek / Acorn

The Pentangle / “The Snows” / Solomon’s Seal / Castle
Anuna / “Winter Fire and Snow” / Winter Songs / Self Produced
Quadriga Consort / “Winter’s Delights” / Winter’s Delights / Sony-Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
Boys of the Lough / “Da Cold Nights o’ Winter” / Midwinter Nights Dream / Blix Street

Matt & Shannon Heaton / “Fine Winter’s Night” / Fine Winter’s Night / Self Produced
Atwater-Donnelly / “Wild December” / When Winter Calls / Rabbit Island
Peter Mayer / “Where in the Light?” / Midwinter / Blue Boat
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways