The arrival of the Winter Solstice and the dark and cold that accompany the change have a mystical quality. On this week’s edition of the Sing Out! Radio Magazine we Welcome Winter with music from the Boys of the Lough, Tim Harrison, Joel Mabus, Debra Cowan and many more. Throw another log on the fire!

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
        Smithsonian-Folkways

Dan Duggan / “Winter Solstice Waltz” / For the Love of Friends /
        Esperance
Boys of the Lough / “Da Cold Nights o’ Winter-Da Blue Yow-Sa Spirit
        o’ Whiskey” / Midwinter Nights Dream / Blix Street
Dudley Laufman & Friends / “Farmer’s Boy” / Songs of the Seasons /
        New Hampshire State Council of the Arts
Juggernaut String Band / “Solstice Carol” / Medicine Dog / Encounter
Anne Hills / “Winter Vigil (Eight & Sand)” / Tracks / Hand & Heart

Tim Harrison / “Grey County Winter” / Grey County / Second Avenue
Eden MacAdam-Somer & Larry Unger / “Ice Storm” / Notorious / Black Socks
Robert J. Lurtsema / “The Shortest Day” / The Christmas Revels / Revels
Dan Duggan / “Nor’easter” / For the Love of Friends / Esperance

Hal Cannon / “The Blizzard” / Hal Cannon / Okehdokee
Red Rock Rondo / “Silent Snow” / A Secret Gift / Steamboat Mountain
Joel Mabus / “Five Kinds of Snow” / Promised Land / Fossil

Bruce Cockburn / “January in a Halifax Airport Lounge” / Joy Will
        Find A Way / ESD
Debra Cowan / “The Snow is On the Ground” / Fond Desire Farewell /
        Falling Mountain

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
        Smithsonian-Folkways