Wassail! Wassail! Early American Christmas Music

The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice The original Christmas Revels recording features many audience favorites including signature piece "Lord of the Dance," sung by Revels founder John Langstaff. Includes traditional & ritual carols, dances, and processionals from Medieval England, in celebration of the winter solst...	Sing We Now of Christmas A rousing, exquisitely beautiful recording of six centuries of European music for the winter solstice. The 55-voice chorus of adults and children perform timeless winter favorites from England, France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Russia.	Christmas Day in the Morning Spanning centuries and cultures, this beautiful and sweetly melodic recording is full of cheerful visiting songs, jolly old ballads and tender carols with which families have huddled in song for countless generations.	Victorian Christmas Revels One of the most popular and enduring Christmas Revels is captured in this spirited collection of street cries, holiday carols, music hall songs, and parlor dances. With Maggi Peirce, David Jones, John Langstaff, the Revels Chorus, and the Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble.	American Folk Songs for Christmas American Folk Songs for Christmas amounts to an extraordinary and large collection of unvarnished American folk songs sung and played by the Seeger family with help from British friends and folksinger-playwright Ewan MacColl and daughter Kitty. Unassuming and full of old-fashion...
A Child's Christmas Revels Early American, English, French and Irish carols are performed with sweet, sure harmonies by the young singers of the Washington Revels, with help from the handbell ringers of St. Peter's School of Philadelphia.	Rose and Thistle: English and Scottish Music This album features 16th-century English (Tudor) and 18th-century Scottish material - carols, court dances, songs, instrumentals, children's singing games, Scottish airs and pipe tunes. The latest Revel's CD was made especially for the holidays, with music taken from two separat...	A Feast of Songs: Holiday Music from the Middle Ages A Feast of Songs is a lively collection of familiar and unusual traditional songs and dances from the middle ages that celebrate the winter season and its associated festivals and holidays. Songs from the British Isles, Ireland, Germany, France, Poland and Sweden blend medieval a...	Christmas in an Irish Castle Join us for an Irish Revels! Delight in Christmas carols, traditional Irish songs, jigs, reels, master musicians on harps, fiddles, drums and Irish pipes, stories told by the hearth -- all celebrating an Irish Christmas and Winter Solstice. Rejoice with the voices of men, women ...	Ancient Noels Ancient Noels:An INDIE finalist for "Best Seasonal Album of the Year" ( and listed in BILLBOARD magazine)Ancient carols, Renaissance rhythms and haunting medieval hymns bring to life images of desert landscapes, stone monasteries and the origins of Chrismas. Maggie Sansone on ham...

My Favorite Revels Album
I truly love the Christmas Revels. They evoke a spirit of Christmas seldom found anymore. I find this especially true of Wassail! Wassail! perhaps because it is from the roots of our American culture. From the Native American carol to the Kentucky clog dancing, this CD is sure to get you ready for Christmas!

An excellent American Christmas album
With John Langstaff and Jean Ritchie's names on the front, any folk music fan should know that this is an album to grab. While there is a Christmas theme to the album several pieces are not seasonal - The Young Convert (a Sacred Harp number), Shall We Gather at the River? (turn of the century gospel), I Will Bow and Be Simple (Shaker). My favorite track is Wondrous Love from Kentucky Harmony - a song a am frustrated is so little known.This album presents a broad spectrum of the American folk cultures. They are performed well, as one always expects with Langstaff's projects. But most importantly, the performers clearly love the material they perform and want you to have as much fun listening as they have performing.

fantastic, robust, enthusiastic and moving music
I find this album to be an exciting and moving holiday cd. The singing is robust, lively, exciting and fun. It is both moving and rejuvinating. A must for the Christmas season.