We welcome in 2017 with a collection of songs and tunes about the New Year. We’ll hear great tunes from Arnie Naiman, Hesperus, John McCutcheon and others. And New Year’s songs from the Gathering featuring Joe Newberry, Josee Vachon, Geoff Bartley and others. And if that’s not enough we’ll hear three very different renditions of Auld Lang Syne. Welcome in the New Year!

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Fiddlesticks / “Auld Lang Syne-Eureka Freaka-Mom’s Jig” / Cold Fusion / Self Produced
Joe Newberry et al / “First Day of the Year” / The Gathering / Sycamore Road
Arnie Naiman / “Snowy Morning-The Old New Year” / My Lucky Stars / Merriweather
Josee Vachon / “Mon Dieu Benissez la Nouvelle Annee” / Reve de Noel / Cevon Musique

Geoff Bartley / “Blue Moon on New Year’s Eve” / Put the Big Stone Down / Self Produced
Lou & Peter Berryman / “New New Year Year” / Just One Angel Vol.2 / Yellow Tail
Hesperus / “New Year’s Eve” / American Quilt / Maggies Music
The Copper Ponies / “It’s a New Year Now” / Ring Them Bells / Hudson Harding
Bill Keith / “Auld Lang Syne” / O Christmas Tree / Rounder

Herdman, Hills & Mangsen / “At the Turning of the Year” / At the Turning of the Year / Hand & Heart
Christine Lavin & Robin Batteau / “Same Old Lang Syne” / Sampler Number 7 / Hudson Harding
John McCutcheon / “Down in yon Forest-New Year’s Eve” / Winter Solstice / Rounder
Zoe Mulford / “Welcome in Another Year” / This Time and Place / Wherefore Arts
Various / “Conch Shell Horn on New Year’s Eve in Positano Italy” Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection / Rounder
Magpie / Auld Lang Syne” / Last Month of the Year / Sliced Bread
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways