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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Christmas Music
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Date: Wed, 14-Dec-83 17:14:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 14 17:14:52 1983
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A wonderful Christmas album which I've been trying unsuccessfully to find
for years and which always gets heavy play on KUT's "Eklektikos" program
every December is called "Noel Sing We Clear".  (I believe that the label
is something like "Front Hall Records" but I have no idea about the names
of the artists.)  This is a record which should appeal to many different
tastes: I would recommend it equally to folkies, the classicaly inclined,
and of course any "net.nlang.celts" fanatics who may be reading this.  The
album is a collection of little-known traditional Christmas music of the
British Isles with an emphasis on its pre-Christian roots.  Included are
some songs you probably haven't heard as well as some alternate versions
of songs that you probably have heard.  I am thinking, for instance, of
the unusual and rather pagan version of "The Holly and the Ivy" from the
album;  it's almost enough to make one want to start a movement to "take
the Christ back out of Christmas" :-) !
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Prentiss Riddle
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