My 27th annual Christmas special! Since Christmas 1980, I have presented a special edition of Traditions featuring holiday folk music – always on the Sunday before Christmas. I receive many e-mails and phone calls on this one – today I heard from a listener in Maine – a former listener from NJ who makes a point to tune in every holiday! Thanks for listening and all the support!!!

Some great new additions this year including a collection of artists from Hudson Harding Music, Erik Darling and the Chapin Family!

Merry Christmas!

(Tune in to TRADITIONS every Sunday from 3 to 6pm Eastern
Time over WFDU-FM 89.1 in the NYC/Northern New Jersey or on
the web at www.wfdu.fm . A Sing Out! Radio Partner )

ARTIST Tune / Song
ALBUM LABEL
Theme: HARVEY REID Jingle Bells
The Heart ot the Minstrel on Christmas Day www.woodpecker.com

JOEL MABUS Let’s Do Christmas Right
How Like the Holly www.joelmabus.com

THE WATERSONS Here We Come A-Wassailing
Frost and Fire Topic
SCHOONER FARE A’Soalin’ / Jingle Bells
Home for the Holidays www.schoonerfare.com
SLOAN WAINWRIGHT O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Sloan Wainwright and Friends on A Night Before Christmas www.sloanwainwright.com

BEESTON METHODIST CAROL CHOIR Once in Royal David’s City
Brightest and Best Village Carols
COOPE BOYES & SIMPSON While Shepards Watched
A Garland of Carols www.coopeboyesandsimpson.co.uk
ARTISAN The Boars Head Carol
Bygone Christmas www.artisan-harmony.com
NOWELL SING WE CLEAR The Praise of Christmas
A Pageant of Mid-Winter Carols Golden Hind

VARIOUS Kentucky Wassail
Twas on A Night Like This www.folklegacy.com
JEAN RITCHIE Brightest and Best
Kentucky Christmas Old and New www.jeanritchie.com
LINDA RUSSELL I Saw Three Ships
Christmas Past www.lindarussellmusic.com
MAGPIE Huron Carol
Last Month of the Year www.slicedbread.com

PETER OSTROUSHKO Shcendryk (Carol of the Bells)
Heartland Holidays www.peterostroushko.com

VARIOUS The 12 Days of Christmas
Wassail! A Traditional Celebration of an English Midwinter www.fellside.com
COYOTE RUN Twelve Days After Christmas
Tend the Fire www.coyoterun.com
TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA I Got A Cheese Log
Merry Fishes to All www.troutmusic.com
EVA CASSIDY It’s Not the Presents
A Holiday Feast Vol. V. Hungry for Music

ED MCCURDY Miracle of the Wheat
single Kapp Records

ED MCCURDY Get Along Cindy (Tonight is Christmas Eve) single Kapp Records

ERIK DARLING Walk Right in, Santa
Revenge of the Christmas Tree www.erikdarling.com

THE WEAVERS Burgundian Carol / God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
We Wish You A Merry Christmas MCA
PETE SEEGER Mary Had A Baby
Traditional Christmas Carols Folkways
KINGSTON TRIO The Last Month of the Year
The Last Month of the Year Capitol
ODETTA Rise Up Shepard and Follow
Christmas Spirituals www.vanguardrecords.com
SPARKY & RHONDA RUCKER Go Tell it On The Mountain
Eventide: Songs of Celebration www.vanguardrecords.com
REVELS Children, Go Where I Send Thee
Behold that Star! An American Song Quilt www.revels.org

FREEBO He Was Just A Man
Hudson Harding Sampler Vol. 1 self
JANE SIBERRY Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
Shushan the Palace www.janesibbery.com

GREG GREENWAY Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Hudson Harding Sampler Vol. 1 self

LEON REDBONE White Christmas
Christmas Island www.leonredbone.com
DON MCLEAN The Christmas Song
Don McLean’s Christmas Dreams www.don-mclean.com
AMY SPEACE Happy Holidays
Hudson Harding Sampler Vol. 1 self

ROBERT J. LURTSEMA Twas The Night Before Christmas
Christmas Stories www.rounder.com

JEN CHAPIN Deck the Halls
The Chapin Family Christmas Collection www.tomchapin.com
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
The McGarrigle Christmas Hour Nonesuch
JAMES DURST I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Hudson Harding Sampler Vol. 1 self
CATHIE RYAN It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
The Soul of Christmas www.cathieryan.com
BURNS SISTERS What Child is This?
Tradition www.rounder.com
JOAN BAEZ Silent Night
Noel www.vanguardrecords.com
TOM PRASADA-RAO Oh Holy Night
Christmas in the Ashram www.thedreamsicles.com
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Ron Olesko
WFDU-FM
1000 River Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
www.ronolesko.blogspot.com