The Winter Solstice arrived on December 21st, and this week’s program is a welcome to the Winter season with some wonderful music focusing on this special time of the year. We’ll hear from Gordon Lightfoot, The Early Mays, Honor Finnegan, Fred Gosbee, Herdman-Hills-Mangsen, The Silent Winters and Reid Jamieson. Music for a season of ice and snow … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Episode #19-52: Welcome Winter

Host: Tom Druckenmiller

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Katie LaRay Waldren / “Cold Frosty Morning” / Cold Frosty Morning / Native Ground

Kieran Kan & Rayna Gellert / “Cold Air” / Ledges / Dead Reckoning

Gordon Lightfoot / “Song for a Winter's Night” / The Way I Feel / United Artists

Pierce Pettis / “In the Bleak Midwinter” / Winter Solstice III / Windham Hill

The Early Mays / “Narrows of the Year” / Chase the Sun / Bird on the Wing

Honor Finnegan / “Snow Day” / Just One Angel v2.0 / Yellow Tail

Social Band / “When the Snows of Winter Fall” / Deep Midwinter / Self Released

Fred Gosbee / “The Night the Whiskey Froze” / The Night the Whiskey Froze / Castlebay

Tony Trischka / “Sleigh Ride” / Glory Shone Around / Rounder

Atwater Donnelly / “Cold Frosty Morning-Growling Old Man Growling Old Woman” / When Winter Calls / Rabbit Island

Herdman-Hills-Mangsen / “More Wood” / Voices of Winter / Gadfly

Herdman-Hills-Mangsen / “Solstice Round” / At the Turning of the Year / Hand & Heart

Kenny Jackson / “The Shortest Day-Set the Log Alight” / The Shortest Day / Crow Hill

John Reischman & the Jaybirds / “While Roving on a Winter's Night” / On a Winter's Night / Corvus

Silent Winters / “Winter Wonderland” / Christmas Morning / Fallen Tree

Reid Jamieson / The Coldest Night of the Year” / Songs for a Winter's Night / Self Produced

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways