Rotary Connection – Peace
You’d hardly expect a hip, critically lauded psychedelic rock band of the late sixties to release a Christmas album.
Otis Gibbs – Once I Dreamed of Christmas
To some extent, nearly all of the classic Tin Pan Alley Christmas songs are about escape.
Eddie Kamae and the Sons of Hawaii – Christmas Time
By 1978, the Hawaiʻian folk revival was slowly losing the immense, culturally impactful steam it had half a decade earlier.
Kate and Anna McGarrigle – The McGarrigle Christmas Hour
In the late 19th century, before radios and phonographs became ubiquitous, the music industry was dominated by sheet music publishers. There were two ways to hear new music.
Pia Raug & Steve Dobrogosz – Ind Under Jul
Pia Raug is a sensitive, warm Danish folk singer-songwriter, rooted in a thoroughly american-inspired 1970s tradition that approaches blues, country and pop with as much reverence
Madeline MacNeil – The Holly and the Ivy: Christmas Music for Hammered Dulcimer and Voice
As someone partly brought up in Hungarian culture and near the pulsating history of its folk music, the hammered dulcimer is close to my musical heart.
Noelani and the Leo Nahenahe Singers – Hawaiian Christmas
There’s probably no genre of Christmas music copied as widely, among people with no connection to it, as Hawaiian music. Or, well, genre is not really the right word.
Chet Atkins – Christmas with Chet Atkins
As long as there have been Christmas records, there have been solo instrumental Christmas records.
Reilly and Maloney – A Christmas Album
Folk revivals have happened with some regularity during the 20th century. It is a style which tends to come back into fashion a lot.