Well, the holiday season is just about over, and this week we’ll hear music for the new year, 2020. Whew! Hard to believe! I hope y’all had a great holiday season. We'll hear music for the First Day from The Copper Ponies, Martin & Eliza Carthy, Finest Kind, Sneak’s Noyse, John McCutcheon and The Tannahill Weavers, and many more. New Year’s music … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Episode #20-01: Happy New Year 2020!

Host: Tom Druckenmiller

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

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

Russ Rentler / “Auld Lang Syne” / Still Yulin' Around / Self Produced

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

The Copper Ponies / “It's A New Year Now” / Ring Them Bells / Hudson Harding

The Yellow Room Gang / “Coming of the Dawn” / Happy New Day / Self Produced

The Gathering / “First Day of the Year” / The Gathering / Sycamore Road

The Paul Winter Consort / “Tomorrow is my Dancing Day” / Wintersongs / Living Music

Martin & Eliza Carthy / “Blackwell Merry Night” / The Moral of the Elephant / Topic

Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys / “Party at the Holiday” / Party at the Holiday / Valcour

Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadiens / “Auld Lang Syne” / Seasonal Selection Box Vol.1 / Document

Finest Kind / “Bring the New Year In” / I Am Christmas / Fallen Angle

The Monks / “Year's End Waltz” / Ragged and Righteous / Yodel Ay Hee

Nowell Sing We Clear / “Carol for New Year's Day” / The Best of Nowell Sing We Clear / Front Hall

John McCutcheon / “Down in Yon Forest-New Year's Eve” / Winter Solstice / Rounder

The Tannahill Weavers / “Auld Lang Syne” / IV / Green Linnet

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