Artist	Song
Nightnoise	The Flight Into Egypt
from A Celtic Christmas - Peace On Earth (1999)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle	Seven Joys of Mary
from The McGarrigle Christmas Hour (2005)
Sue Richards	Simple Gifts / Jingle Bells
from Merrily Greet the Time (2003)
Ensemble Galilei	Bressay Lullabye (Balloo Lammy) / Don Oiche
from A Winter's Night - Christmas In the Great Hall (2002)
John McCutcheon	Huron Carol
from Winter Solstice (1984)
Ensemble Galilei & Maggie Sansone	Nowell, Nowell: Tidings True / Riu, Riu, Chiu
from Ancient Noels (1993)
Órla Fallon	Emmanuel
from Winter, Fire and Snow (2010)
The Chieftains	The Boar's Head
from The Bells of Dublin (1991)
Anúna	O Holy Night
from Christmas Songs (2004)
James Galway	Shepherd's Pipe Carol
from James Galway's Christmas Carol (1986)
Loreena McKennitt	Let Us the Infant Greet
from To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987)
Brian Dunning & Jeff Johnson	A Christmas Childhood / Stars In the Morning East
from Stars In the Morning East - A Christmas Meditation (2005)
Enya	And Winter Came
from And Winter Came (2008)
James Galway & Phil Coulter	Cailín Na Gruaige Baine
from Winter's Crossing (1998)
Katie McMahon	Christmas Day & Christmas Eve Tunes
from Celtic Christmas (2004)
Phyllis Taylor Sparks	Greensleeves
from Celtic Harp Sparks! (2003)
The Black Family	First Christmas
from Time for Touching Home (1990)
Sue Richards	Drive the Cold Winter Away
from Merrily Greet the Time (2003)
Bonnie Rideout	Wassail! Wassail All Over Town!or the Gloucester Wassail / We Wish You a Merry Christmas
from The Celebration (2004)
Brian Dunning & Jeff Johnson	Down the Chimney
from A Celtic Christmas - Peace On Earth (1999)
Paul McCandless	In Bethlehem City - Paul McCandless
from A Very Green Christmas (2004)
Celtic Nots	Sing Noel
from Deep Midwinter (2004)
James Galway & Phil Coulter	Winter's Crossing
from Winter's Crossing (1998)
Smithfield Fair	Balloo, Lammy
from The Winter Kirk (2001)
Reaganta	New Year's Song / Oiche Nollaig
from Nollaig (2001)

Comment:

From bittersweet folk songs to soaring sacred carols to sparkling instrumental ornaments, our Celtic Christmas songs evoke a special sort of holiday spirit, one that lilts in the brogue of Irish heroes the Black Family and their Noel heart-tugger “First Christmas,” and in the gorgeous a cappella harmonies of “O Holy Night” from Ireland’s National Choir, Anúna. It dances in the sprightly toe-tapper that is “Christmas Day & Christmas Eve Tunes” from vocalist Katie McMahon, and it pipes up in the penny-whistle serenade of Reaganta and the holiday-season last act “New Year’s Song/Oiche Nollaig.”

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