Episode 237 – Yuletide Cheer! 2023

Merry Happy and Fa La La La La to You!

Summary: It’s our annual “lessons and carols,” with holiday music, a poem, some alternative holiday traditions, and just a general holly jolly good time.

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Our holiday playlist this year is:

• “We Three Kings (Acoustic),” Mark Petrie – Audiosocket
• “Yorkshire Wassail,” by the Pagan Carolers (Archive.org)
• “Carol of the Bells,” Ivan Luzan – Pixabay
• “Un Flambeau Jeanette Isabella,” Emma Wallace – Audiosocket
• “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy” – Western Horizon Productions – Audiosocket
• Incidental Music: “We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Music Box Version)” – WaveMaster from Pixabay
• “Sing We Noel Once More,” by the The Harmony Choristers (Archive.org)
• “Pat-a-Pan,” by the Concordia Choir (Archive.org)
• “Wassail Wassail,” Panorama Jazz Band – Audiosocket
• “Mrs Fogerty’s Christmas,” Trillium – Audiosocket
• Incidental Music: “In the Bleak Midwinter” – Julius H. from Pixabay
• “Good King Wenceslas,” by the US Army Band (Archive.org/Public Domain)
• “Soul Cake,” the Pagan Carolers
• “O Christmas Tree,” Mike Cole from Pixabay
• “Silent Night” – Zakhar Valaha – Pixabay
• Incidental Music: “The Holly and the Ivy” – Leigh Robinson from Pixabay
• “Da Day Dawn,” by Samantha Gillogly (artist permission)

Readings are:

• “[little tree]” by e.e. cummings
• “Sitting Out” from The Old Magic of Christmas by Linda Raedisch
• Jolabokaflod
• The Christmas Pickle
• Joulusauna

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