Ringing In The New Year

10 p.m. to Midnight Host: Steve Winters

It’s still three more days before 2008 makes its debut, but this is a show to prepare listeners for the merriment and celebration. Using folk and acoustic music, we mark the end of one year and the beginning of another and look musically at the rituals of wassailing, hunting the wren and the Haxley Hood Game. Happy New Year!

  • Artist, "Title", Album, Label

  • Nowell Sing We Clear, “Old Christmas/Shooting”, Midwinter, Free Reed

  • The Watersons, “Appletree Wassail”, Midwinter, Free Reed

  • Albion Christmas Band, “Gloucestershire Wassail”, Midwinter, Free Reed

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  • Malcolm Dalglish, “St. Basil’s Hymn”, Hymnody Of Earth, Musical Heritage Society

  • Nowell Sing We Clear, “Carol For The New Year”, Hail Smiling Morn!, Golden Hind

  • Ram’s Bottom, “The Moon Shines Bright”, Voices In Harmony, Fellside

  • Peter Ostroushko & Friends, “Medley: The Holly And The Ivy/Oj v Petrivochku/A Hazdo Hazdo”, Heartland Holiday, Borderland

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  • Joe & Winifred Woods, “Hunting The Wren”, Midwinter, Free Reed

  • Ian Campbell Folk Group, “Cutty Wren”, Midwinter, Free Reed

  • Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, “The Wren (The King)”, Midwinter, Free Reed

  • Jack Hardy, “The Wren”, Sampler, Prime CD

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  • Jean Ritchie, “None But One”, Midwinter, Free Reed

  • Vic Gammon & The Pump And Pluck Band, “John Barleycorn”, The Tale Of Ale, Free Reed

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  • Ed Trickett, “The January Man”, Gently Down The Stream Of Time, Folk-Legacy

  • Jaiya, “The Old Year Now Away Is Fled”, “The Year Is Born Anew”, Firedance, Independent

  • Zoe Mulford, “Welcome In Another Year”, Hudson Harding Holiday Sampler Vol. 1, Independent

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  • Boys Of The Lough, “The Dying Year”, Midwinter Night’s Dream, Blix Street

  • Archie Fisher, “Jock Stewart”, The Man With A Rhyme, Folk-Legacy

  • The Voice Squad, “The Parting Glass”, Bringing It All Back Home, Valley Entertainment

  • Dougie Maclean, “Auld Lang Syne”, Tribute, Dunkeld

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  • Skyedance, “Year’s Turning”, Auld Lang Syne, Culburnie

  • Random, “Rogue’s March/Ali McKenzie’s/The Hogmanay”, Deviation, Wild Goose Studios

  • Coila, “The New Dawning”, Full On, Lochshore