♬ ★ The Best Music for Christmas 2012
On this page I am collection concerts and other interesting music links for Christmas 2012. More interesting links will be added within the next weeks!
Playlists von Smithsonian Folkways
Feliz Navidad from Smithsonian Folkways
Ensemble Galilei Shares The Essential Songs Of The Season
The Celtic folk band Ensemble Galilei has been performing music from the Renaissance, Ireland and Scotland together more than two decades. When the time comes every year for the six musicians to pick out a Christmas set, they have a lot of material to choose from — without being too predictable.
Brian Oberlin – Solo Swing Chrismas
Brian Oberlin has recorded a CD titled Solo Swing Christmas – he sings and plays the mandolin in the jazz-style of Jethro Burns and Don Stiernberg. This is up to now my favorite Christmas CD for this year. You can listen to three tracks on Brian’s website:
http://www.mandoberlin.com/listen.php
The CD is available at cdbaby (CD/download): Click here to buy Solo Swing online
Folk Alley Holiday Stream
Folk Alley presents the December Holiday Stream featuring nearly 50 hours of some of our favorite Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice and winter music by artists like Rhonda Vincent, Over the Rhine, Sufjan Stevens, Christine Lavin, Lyle Lovett, John Fahey, the Asylum Street Spankers, Leon Redbone, Bela Fleck, The Roches… and lots more!
http://www.folkalley.com/music/holidaystream/
Camerata Nova – Christmas in Early America
Conducted by Ross Brownlee and Michael McKay, this annual, free Camerata Nova concert in Winnipeg was fun as usual, but also different, with seasonal songs from early American traditions. This included shape-note songs from New England and carols from the Shaker tradition, backwoods Appalachia, southern plantation slave quarters and the early Spanish churches of California and Latin America.
http://music.cbc.ca/#/concerts/Camerata-Nova—Christmas-in-Early-America-2012-11-24
Christmas Music from the Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC
Historical recordings from Edison cylinders and 78 records
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/43169
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38525
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34105
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/29663
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25615
First Listen: Sufjan Stevens, ‘Silver & Gold’
Only for a short time – 5 CDs with a very special Christmas music:
By contrast, part of what makes Sufjan Stevens’ contributions to the Christmas canon so enduring and remarkable is that they’re almost overpoweringly effort-intensive. He views the holidays as a labor of love — worthy of creativity and care, hard work and an ocean of ideas. Silver & Gold, his second five-disc box set of holiday music, almost literally overflows with gifts, from dozens upon dozens of songs to sheets of temporary tattoos, photos, art and other doodads. The package is overstuffed in virtually every way; decadent and lovely, reverent and silly, crafted with painstaking consideration but spontaneous enough to follow an AutoTuned “Good King Wenceslas” with an inexplicable cover of Prince’s “Alphabet St.”
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/19/165470944/first-listen-sufjan-stevens-silver-gold
(you can find some other CDs with seasonal music at First Listen!)
A great video from Switzerland – mixing Turkish and Swiss tarditions:
Müslüm “Samichlaus” Musikvideo
Website: http://www.muesluem.ch/
Christmas Carols from Switzerland by Sabrina Sauder
Blog: http://sabrinasauder.blogspot.ch/
George Canyon’s Country Christmas
George Canyon has a string of awards from the Canadian Country Music Association, the East Coast Music Awards and the Junos. He’s also well known for his charitable work in support of Juvenile Diabetes, and the Canadian troops. He brought his band to the Calgary Philharmonic for this special concert including his hits and Christmas classics.
http://music.cbc.ca/#/concerts/George-Canyons-Country-Christmas-2011-12-20
George Canyon’s Country Christmas
George Canyon has a string of awards from the Canadian Country Music Association, the East Coast Music Awards and the Junos. He’s also well known for his charitable work in support of Juvenile Diabetes, and the Canadian troops. He brought his band to the Calgary Philharmonic for this special concert including his hits and Christmas classics.
http://music.cbc.ca/#/concerts/George-Canyons-Country-Christmas-2011-12-20
Donna Ulisse – All The Way To Bethlehem
at Airplay Direct: http://www.airplaydirect.com/music/DonnaUlisseAllTheWayToBethlehem/
Gretchen Peters – Northern Lights – 12 Songs for Christmas
Gretchen Peters has recorded the CD Northern Lights
A Fiddler’s Holiday with Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
New recording!
http://www.airplaydirect.com/music/JayandMolly/
Those are some links from last year that still are working:
The McGarrigle Wainwright Christmas – A Not So Silent Night
http://music.cbc.ca/#/concerts/The-McGarrigle-Wainwright-Christmas—A-Not-So-Silent-Night-2011-12-11
Doc Walker Christmas
http://music.cbc.ca/#/concerts/Doc-Walker-Christmas-2011-12-03
Up Close: Six Shooter Christmas with The Beauties, Jenn Grant and Justin Rutledge
A Very Foggy Christmas
Believe it or not, Toronto boasts a bustling bluegrass scene of surprisingly young, dedicated and hot (in a virtuosic way) players. Leading the way for most of the last decade has been a smokin’ five-piece known as The Foggy Hogtown Boys. In this concert they set the city’s number one roots venue, Hugh’s Room, ablaze with seasonal spirit – not to mention fiery pickin’ and fiddlin’. Joining this holiday joyride are some very special guests: well-known Toronto-based roots artists Oh Susanna and Jenny Whiteley.
Mit Andrew Collins, Mandoline
http://music.cbc.ca/#/concerts/A-Very-Foggy-Christmas-2011-12-12
Christmas Dinner with Dala
Darlings of the Canadian music scene, these JUNO nominees have released five albums and toured extensively across North America for the better part of a decade. They performed Christmas music plus some of their favourite original songs-in their trademark perfect harmony–at the NAC Studio in Ottawa. The audience really felt like they were hanging out in Dala’s dining room, laughing constantly at their between-song banter.
http://music.cbc.ca/#/concerts/Christmas-Dinner-with-Dala-2011-12-01
Find more Christmas concerts on the CBC concert on demand site – use search:
http://music.cbc.ca/#/concerts/
Festive Canadian roots music
In the spirit of the impending holiday season, we’ve gathered an array of musical Yuletide treats from around the web and across the country to share with you.
http://www.rootsmusic.ca/2011/12/13/festive-canadian-roots-music/
http://www.rootsmusic.ca/2011/12/19/festive-canadian-roots-music-%E2%80%94-part-2/
Jazz, Native flute, mandolin, & Celtic: holiday music you haven’t heard
A Jazz Piano Christmas 2011
Every December, a select group of the most celebrated pianists in jazz converge on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The holiday classics which come out of their fingers are captured by NPR Music for our annual holiday celebration, A Jazz Piano Christmas.
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/12/143590801/a-jazz-piano-christmas-2011
A Bluegrass and Old Time Music Radio Show
2 podcasts with Christmas music:
Show #25 – December 20, 2006 — Christmas time is comin’. Here’s a variety of Christmas songs performed by old time and bluegrass bands for your holiday enjoyment. Merry Christmas to all and have a wonderful New Year.
Show #11 – December 8, 2005 — Jack plays the entire Christmas concert of the Oriskany Strings which they performed at the historic Buchanan Theatre in Buchanan, VA on December 1, 2005.
http://radio.surberstation.com/
Sheet Music for Christmas
Sheet music link collection for christmas: http://pinboard.in/u:mandoisland/t:weihnachten/t:noten