Artist | Title | Album | Label |
---|---|---|---|
Sylvia Woods | Forest March | ||
Norma Waterson | Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand | ||
Clive Williams & Mark Prescott | Bonny At Morn / Hunting the Cutty Wren | ||
Shira Kammen | Nou Is Yole Comen | ||
The Young Tradition, Shirley Collins & Dolly Collins | The Boar's Head Carol | ||
Mary O'Hara | Wexford Mummer's Song | ||
Bonnie Rideout | Gloomy Winter | ||
Royston Wood & Heather Wood | The Cutty Wren | ||
Carreg Lafar | Dryw Bach | ||
Fernhill | Hela'r Dryw | ||
John Fleagle | The Hern | ||
Shirley Collins | Down in Yon Forest | ||
Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews | Apple Tree Wassail | ||
The Watersons | Malpas Wassail | ||
Kerfuffle | Gower Wassail | ||
Coope, Simpson, Fraser & Freya | Green Grow'th the Holly | ||
Sue Brown & Lorraine Irwing | Nay Ivy Nay | ||
Waterson: Carthy | The Ditchling Carol |
Program:
Rarer Carols
This episode features some of the more ancient and obscure midwinter traditions that have endured alongside Christmas, as well as some lesser-known carols of this festival, many of which are pagan in origin.
Content warning for animal sacrifice and general heathen revelry.