The 2024 Vernacular Sound Holiday Special is a mix of regional styles and traditional music from all over England, with some ceremonial and holiday material. Grab some ale or nog or whatever and hear wassailing, brass bands, and Mummers along with ballads, broadsides, and some songs of labor and industrial discontent. Recordings by the Copper Family, Harry Cox, the Watersons, Anne Briggs, Harry Boardman, Maureen Craik, Ed Pickford and more.
- Copper Family - Babes in the Woods @ 00:23
- Shirley Collins - Cruel Mother @ 03:49
- Bob Hart - John Barleycorn @ 09:42
- John Armstrong & Joe Hutton - The Rowan Tree/Jock of Hazeldean @ 12:52
- Harry Cox - Georgie @ 16:20
- Percy Brown - Step Dance/Yarmouth Breakdown @ 18:22
- Ed Pickford - Ee Aye, Aa Cud Hew @ 21:32
- Mike Herring - Rigs of the Times @ 23:51
- Harry Boardman - Sam Shuttle and Betty Reedhook @ 26:27
- Peter Coe, Chris Richards, Mick Bramwich, and Les Ivall - The Dudley Boys @ 29:12
- Maureen Craik and Colin Ross - The Durham Lockout @ 35:59
- Anne Briggs - The Snow It Melts the Soonest @ 41:22
- The Watersons - Wassail Song @ 43:42
- Bob & Ron Copper - Shepherds Arise @ 46:46
- Marshfield Mummers - Play Their Song/Hark the Herald Angels Sing @ 49:30
- Haslington Boys Brass Band - Good King Wenceslas @ 52:52
- Shirley Collins - Ashen Cigarette Wassail @ 56:14
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024