Airing on www.bluesandrootsradio.com on Saturday December 22, 2018 and rebroadcast on WFDU-FM on Sunday December 23, 2018 and www.bluesandrootsradio.com on Tuesday December 25, 2018 at 10pm ET

The annual Christmas show, a program I’ve presented on the Sunday before Christmas starting in 1980. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

HOUR 1
ARTIST “Tune / Song”
ALBUM Label – Website
Theme: HARVEY REID “Jingle Bells”
Solo Guitar Sketchbook Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
ROBERT KILLIAN “Christmas is Near”
single self – wwwrjkillian@yahoo.com

NAMING THE TWINS “Caroling On”
Sing the Winter Away self – www.namingthetwins.com
NOWELL SING WE CLEAR “Somerset Wassail”
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell Golden Hind Music – www.goldenhindmusic.com
COOPE BOYES & SIMPSON “Here We Come A Wassailing”
A Garland of Carols No Masters – www.thebeesknees.com
GATHERING TIME “Deck the Halls”
This Time and Place Wherefore Arts – www.whereforearts.com

JIMMIE BRATCHER “Man! It’s Christmas”
The Alternate Root 2013 Holiday Sampler Alternate Root – www.thealternateroot.com
MARK STEPAKOFF “Santa & Elvis”
The Longest Night of the Year Vol. 1 Hudson Harding –
MARTIN SWINGER “Christmas Blues”
The Longest Night of the Year Vol. 1 Hudson Harding –

RANI ARBO “I Saw Three Ships”
Wonderland: A Winter Solstice Celebration Windham Hill –
SOFIA TALVIK “I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day”
When Winter Comes Makai Music – www.makakimusic.se
MADDY PRIOR AND THE CARNIVAL BAND “It Came Upom A Midnight Clear”
A Christmas Caper Park UK – www.maddyprior.co.uk

DAVE FRY “Cool Yule”
The Longest Night of the Year Vol. 1 Hudson Harding –
RYANHOOD “What is Christmas?”
On Christmas self – www.ryanhood.com
RHONDA VINCENT “Christmas Time Is Coming”
Christmas Time is Coming Rounder – www.rounder.com
LONNIE DONEGAN “On A Christmas Day”
Holiday Hootenanny Laser Light DIgital –

JOHN MCCUTCHEON “Christmas in the Trenches”
Winter Solstice New Rounder – www.folkmusic.com

HOUR 2
JAY UNGAR & MOLLY MASON with Peter Davis “Zat You Santa Claus?”
The Pleasures of Winter Fiddle & Dance Records – www.jayandmolly.com
BRAVE COMBO “Must Be Santa”
Christmas Present denTone – www.bravecombo.com
ERIK DARLING “Walk Right In, Santa”
Revenge of the Christmas Tree self – www.erikdarling.com
JOSEPH SPENCE “Santa Clause is Coming to Town”

THOMAS ERNEST HARE “Santa Claus Hides in the Phonograph”
1922 recording on 78 Brunswick –
LORETTA HAGEN “Santa If Your Listening”
The Alternate Root 2013 Holiday Sampler Alternate Root – www.thealternateroot.com

THE ITINERANT BAND “Christmas Day Ida Mornin’ / Masters in this Hall / In Dulci Jubilo”
Apples in Winter self – www.itinerentband.com
LINDA RUSSELL & COMPANIE “Cherry Tree Carol”
A Colonial Folk Christmas self – www.lindarussellmusic.com
ALAN MILLS “The Huron Carol”
Canada’s Story in Song Smithsonian Folkways – www.folkways.si.edu

RUTHIE & THE WRANGLERS “Songs of Christmas”
Happy Holidays Vol. 2 Hudson Harding –
ANDY & JUDY “Christmas”
The Longest Night of the Year Vol. 1 Hudson Harding –
JAMES TAYLOR “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
James Taylor at Christmas self – www.jamestaylor.com

ED MCCURDY & THE HARVESTERS “Miracle of the Wheat”
single out of print –
DAVE CARTER AND TRACY GRAMMER “American Noel”
American Noel Signature Sounds – www.signaturesounds.com , www.daveandtracy.com
TRET FURE “Infant King”
The Longest Night of the Year Vol. 1 Hudson Harding –

HOUR 3
NOEL STOOKEY “T’was the Night Before Christmas”
Somethin’ Special New World Multimedia – www.noelpaulstookey.com

RUTHIE FOSTER “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
A Very Blue Rock Christmas Blue Rock – www.bluerocktexas.com
SARA HICKMAN “Winter Wonderland”
A Very Blue Rock Christmas Blue Rock – www.bluerocktexas.com
THE INDIGO GIRLS “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”

HARRY BELAFONTE “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
Harry Belafonte: 8 Classic Albums Real Gone Records –

ODETTA “Rise Up Shepherd”
Gonna Let it Shine MC Records –
PETE SEEGER “Mary Had a Baby”
Traditional Christmas Carols Smithsonian Folkways – www.folkways.si.edu
THE EARLY MAYS “I Wonder as I Wander”
Out Under the Sky self – www.earlymays.com

CATIE CURTIS “Little Drummer Boy”
A Catie Curtis Christmas self – www.catiecurtis.com
MARY MCCASLIN “Good King Wencecles”

TERRI HENDRIX “Do You Hear What I Hear”
A Very Blue Rock Christmas Blue Rock – www.bluerocktexas.com
ABBIE GARDNER & LAURIE MACALLISTER “Silent Night”
Happy Holidays Vol. 6 Hudson Harding –

JOAN BAEZ “What Child Is This”
Noel Vanguard Records – www.vanguardrecords.com
TOM PRASADA-RAO “Joy to the World”
Christmas in the Ashram self – www.tomprasadarao.com
TOMMY MAKEM “Adeste Fideles”
Tommy Makem’s Christmas Shanachie – www.shanachie.com , www.tommymakem.com
DAVE ROWE TRIO “O Holy Night”
A Holday Concert self – www.daverowemusic.com
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Ron Olesko
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