Various Artists - Narada Presents: The Best of Celtic Christmas [2CD] 2002

A captivating double disc packed with fiddles, flutes, and Celtic music's brightest stars! Ireland's best-loved traditionalists sing their favorite Christmas carols on disc one (each tune features a different lead instrument or vocal): It Came upon a Midnight Clear Cathie Ryan; Get Me Through December Natalie MacMaster; The Snowy Path Altan; The Mummer's Jig/Christmas Eve Boys of the Lough; Ding Dong Merrily on High Frankie Gavin & the Irish Chamber Orchestra; Christ Child's Lullabye Kathy Mattea (yes, the American country singer!); Ceol NaNolag John Whelan, and more. Disc two highlights the award-winning Galway group Dordan with a collection of jigs and carols, many sung in Gaelic! 30 festive, thoughtful tunes in all.

CONDITION: NEW, Notched Case

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Cathie Ryan
2 Christ Child's Lullabye - Kathy Mattea
3 Christmastime In Ashland - Cormac Breatnach
4 Nowel: Owt Of Your Slepe Aryse - Anonymous 4
5 The Mummer's Fig - Christmas Eve - Boys Of The Lough
6 Get Me Through December - Natalie MacMaster
7 I Saw Three Ships - Maddy Prior
8 Silent Night - William Jackson
9 The Snowy Path - Altan
10 Away In A Manger - El McMeen
11 Nouel - Ensemble Choral Du Bout Du Monde
12 Ding Dong Merrily On High - Frankie Gavin
13 Ceol NaNolag - John Whelan
14 Seacht Suailci Na Maighdine Muire - Aoife Ni Fhearraigh
15 Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful) - Bonnie Rideout

Disc: 2

1 Enniscorthy Christmas Carol - Dordan
2 Leanbh Ghil Mhilis (Bright Sweet Child) - Dordan
3 Christmas Eve Reel (Tommy Coen's Reel) - Dordan
4 Mistletoe Waltz - Dordan
5 Draiocht Na hOiche (The Magic Of The Night) - Dordan
6 Winter Solstice - Dordan
7 Oiche Nollag (Christmas Eve) - Dordan
8 March Of The Dreoilin - Dordan
9 Oiche Chiuin (Silent Night) - Dordan
10 Failte An Fhanai (The Wayfarer's Welcome) - Dordan
11 Don Oiche Ud I mBeithil (Because Of The Night In Bethlehem) - Dordan
12 Polly In the Holly - Dordan
13 The Gartan Mother's Lullaby - Dordan
14 Ding Dong Merrily On High - Dordan
15 Shades Of Auld Lang Syne - Dordan