Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!

Subject: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:47 PM

This Sunday, December 19, I will host my annual "Christmas Party" on WFDU-FM. From 3 to 6pm Eastern Time I will be playing seasonal favorites from artists like Pete Seeger, Odetta, Nowell Sing We Clear, the Patons, Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand, Christine Lavin, Tom Prasada-Rao, Cathie Ryan, Artisan and many, many, many others. Holiday music done in a "folk" style!

This will mark the 25th broadcast, an event that I started on the first Sunday before Christams back in 1980.   You can listen in at 89.1FM in the NYC metro area, or you can listen in on the internet at www.wfdu.fm

Hope you can join us for some seasonal cheer!

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 12:06 AM

What date will it be on?

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From: GUEST
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 12:51 AM

Ron, I hope you are doing the reading of a "Night Before Christmas?"

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 12:55 AM

Sorry, Ron. Just saw the date. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 09:30 AM

I have a recording of Robert Lurtsema reading The Night Before Christmas that I share every year. I usually air it around 5pm. If anyone has any requests, please post them here or e-mail me at [e-mail] . Thanks!

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 09:47 AM

Listened into this internet site during the week and enjoyed it - it helped with the report writing.

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 06:43 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 10:38 AM

Here is a link - http://www.wfdu.fm

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 10:50 AM

One last reminder. Be sure to e-mail your requests to [e-mail] if there is something you would like me to play, or you can post them here.   Happy holidays!

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 11:55 AM

I'll be listening while I wrap gifts.

As usual, I'd love to hear "Juda's Land" -- or anything by Jean Ritchie.

I'm also interested in carols from around the world, but I'm not sure of the folkiness of many of them. Anything would be great.

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 12:00 PM

Always enjoy your show, Ron. Thanks for the reminder. Sounds like a great lineup. I'd love to hear Christmas in the Trenches.

Tune in, folks. This is always first-rate!

kat

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 03:17 PM

Sounds great, Ron!! Love that Lonnie Donegan!

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 03:58 PM

What is this? I know it as Bambino Divino. The acoustic guitar is beautiful.

***I got interrupted by Hubby doing some secret Santa woodworking and needing advice and didn't hear who or what it was!***

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From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 04:01 PM

The album name was A Taro Patch Christmas; artist was Kataani, I think? Beautiful!

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 04:04 PM

Will there be a play list after the program? I didn't see one earlier.

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. De
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 04:24 PM

Haven't checked, Mary, sorry.

Here's a link to some of the Naked Folk Calendar photos: Click here. Wonder if she got the idea from Mudcat?**bg**

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 04:37 PM

Ron,

I've missed some going in and out to remake my back steps for bad knees, but so far I am liking what I am hearing. (Tape running for later.)

As far as requests, I would only ask (for next year's planning), a little less acoustic interpretation of well-known pieces and a lot more new pieces-- since I will mine the new material to use in congregational singing in church next year.

Thanks for your work in putting all this together. What time of year do you start listening through it all? Early Christmas season for you, huh? Cool!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 04:55 PM

ahhhhhhh...that soprano voice and dulcimer!

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. De
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 04:59 PM

Yeah, that's our kytrad/Jean!

Thanks for playing the request, Ron, it means a lot...

kat

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: Hollowfox
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 05:44 PM

I'm listening right now, and yes, we're getting the tree set up. Thanks so much for reminding us all of this. Watching my 16 year old daughter wipe away tears as she listened to Christmas in the Trenches
will be something I treasure forever. I'mwith WYSIWIG, some of the less well known pieces would be most welcome in next year's playlist. If there's not a playlist somewhere, could you please tell me where to find Oscar Brand's Burgundian Carol? Thanks for that, too. Mary

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 06:25 PM

Wonderful stuff! Thanks, Ron.

~S~

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. De
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 06:36 PM

Thanks for the kind words.   I will post a copy of my playlist here either later tonight or tomorrow.   Normally I post on FOLK-DJ (www.folkradio.org) but I will gladly add it here for this special show.

I have tried to add less well known pieces in the Christmas show in the past, but I've usually met with resistance from the audience. Because this is sort of a "party" edition of the show, people have always requested favorites that everyone knows and can sing along with. I have tried to intersperse some less known songs, as I did this year, but I will remember to add more for next year.

I'll post some more later, but I just wanted to thank all of you for listening in today. It was wonderful to receive e-mails from around the country (and globe!) and I was very surprised when I gave away a CD and the caller was listening in Maine! Radio certainly has changed since I started doing this so many years ago!

Thanks again! Happy holidays!

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 07:01 PM

Ron, it sounds like you have enough material for a second Christmas show! :~)

Ya know, folks, the doo-wop Christmas show following Ron's is pretty cool, too! Our little dresser-top tree is revolving and twinkling in front of the mirror, and it ALMOST feels like Christmas season, here, at last. Snowing, too. But not too much.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. De
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 03:33 PM

I realy enjoyed the Lurtsema, too, Ron. You did a nice job with the Pops behind him, although I think it would be excellent either way. Went a lot to redeeming him in my mind. I used to think he was so pompous on his classical show. This was a side of him I'd never heard and I really was impressed.

Thanks for playing the request. Next year, it'd be neat to hear some of Telynor, Mudcat's own John Peekstock and his wife. They have a Christmas CD called "Off the beaten path" which has some gorgeous, more unusual stuff on it. I LOVE the more obscure the better! Thanks for including some of those and for adding the stories of same.

GREAT show this year!

kat

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 03:56 PM

I have the Telynor CD and unfortunately I ran out of time this year. I will make some changes next year and include more obscure material and some surprises.

The Lurtsema CD is really wonderful. He also worked with the Christmas Revels and appears on one of their CD's.

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 04:01 PM

I went through my tape early this AM and harvested three songs we can use in church as-is, and another one I could rework a bit. More is welcome, but this is great!

Thanks again for the show, and for being sure we knew about it. And thanks to Kat for being sure to keep the thread visible.

And SPECIAL thanks for showcasing all the artists who made the music.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 04:49 PM

A must-have request for next year-- Seamus Kennedy's Christmas CD "Goodwill to Men" is FULL of wonderful stuff. Do you have it???

~Susan

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. De
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 26 Dec 04 - 10:55 PM

Sorry for the delay in posting the playlist, as I promised.   

Maryin Kentucky, I think you heard Twas on A Night Like This from the Folk-Legacy CD of the same name.

Hollowfox - your note was really touching. It is wonderful that your daughter was touched by Christmas in the Trenches. There is hope for the future!   I was tempted to follow up with Artisan's version of Mike Harding's Christmas Eve 1914, another take on the same story. Perhaps next year!

Susan - I will make a note to play Telynor and Seamus Kennedy next year. I did play Seamus on my other program, The Sunday Session.

Anyway, since someone had requested it, here is the playlist. Bill Hahn and I normally post our playlists at www.folkradio.org.

Happy Holidays!

ARTIST    Tune / Song
       ALBUM       LABEL
Theme: HARVEY REID       Jingle Bells
       The Heart of the Minstrel on Christmas Day
Woodpecker
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM       Christmas Times A-Comin'
       Winter's Grace       Signature Sounds
LONNIE DONNEGAN       On A Christmas Day
       Holiday Hootenanny!       LaserLight
JOHN KIRKPATRICK, ROSIE CROSS, GEORGINA LE FAUX, MICHAEL
GREGORY, JANE THREFALL & CARL HOGSDEN       Here We Come
A-Wassailing
       Wassail!       Fellside
ARTISAN       Days of Holly and Mistletoe
       Silver and Gold

ODETTA       Rise Up Shepard and Follow
       Christmas Spirituals       Alcazar
JIHANNA CHARLTON, GORDON THOMAS       Children Go Where I
Send Thee
       There is One Story and One Story Only       Falling
Mountain
CHRISTMAS REVELS       Behold That Star
       Behold That Star!       www.revels.org
MAGPIE       Last Month of the Year
       Last Month of the Year       Sliced Bread

FINEST KIND       The Holly and the Ivy
       Feasts & Spirits       www.kinestkind.ca
NOWELL SING WE CLEAR       The Joys of Mary
       Hail Smiling Morn!       www.goldenhindmusic.com
THE WATERSONS       Emmanuel
       Frost and Fire       Topic
DIANE TARAZ       Lo, How A Rose E'er-Blooming
       Hope! Says the Holly       www.dianetaraz.com
various       Twas On A Night Like
       ThisTwas On A Night Like This       Folk-Legacy

OZZIE KOTANI & STEVE SANO       The Christmas Song
       A Taro Patch Christmas
www.danielhocreations.com

ACOUSTIC EIDOLON       The Christmas Medley
       Joy to the World

Guest: Jane Toohey - The Naked Folk Calendar
       www.nakedfolkcalendar.com
CHRISTINE LAVIN       Snow! Medley
       The Runaway Christmas Tree       Appleseed
JONATHAN EDWARDS       Jingle Bell Rock
       single
SPARKY & RHONDA RUCKER       Jingle Bells
       Eventide: Songs of Celebration
www.sparkyandrhonda.com

MARGO HENNEBACH & MARK SAUNDERS       Away in A Manger
       Comfort & Joy
CATHIE RYAN       It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
       The Best of Celtic Christmas       Narada
MARTHA GALLAGHER       We Three Kings of Orient Are
       For the Love of a Baby
CAROL NOONAN       O Little Town of Bethlehem
       Christmas       www.carolnoonanmusic.com
JAMIE O'REILLY       I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
       Michael Smith's The Gift ot the Magi

TOM GLAZER       The Twelve Days of Christmas
       The Twelve Days of Christmas       CMS
PHIL ROSENTHAL & JEFF McQUILLAN       Deck the Halls
       A Folk Song Christmas       www.americanmeoldy.com
JEAN RITCHIE       I Saw Three Ships
       Old and New         Greenhays
LINDA RUSSELL & COMPANIE       Ding Dong Merrily on High
       A Colonial Folk Christmas       PSM

DARRYL PURPOSE       Christmas in the Trenches
       The Gift of the Magi       www.darrylpurpose.com

ROBERT J.LURTSEMA       Twas The Night Before Christmas
       Christmas Stories       Philo

EL MCMEEN       Angels We Have Heard on High
       The Soul of Christmas Guitar       Piney Ridge

JOEL MABUS       Let's Do Christmas Right
       How Like the Holly       [e-mail]
LEON REDBONE       Frosty The Snowman
       Christmas Island       August Music
DOUGLAS CLEGG       Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer
       Noel       [e-mail]

OSCAR BRAND       The Burgundian Carol
       Singing is Believing       Caedmon
PETER, PAUL & MARY       I Wonder As I Wander
       A Holiday Celebration       Gold Castle

PETE SEEGER       The First Noel
       Traditional Christmas Carols       Folkways
SUZANNE MCDERMOTT       Angels We Have Heard on High
       Out Under the Sky       www.rosemared.com
ARTISAN       God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
       Bygone Christmas       www.artifact.demon.co.uk
TOM PRASADA-RAO    O Holy Night
       Christmas in the Ashram
www.thedreamsicles.com
TOMMY MAKEM       Adeste Fideles
       Tommy Makem's Christmas       Shanachie
JOAN BAEZ       Silent Night
       Noel       Vanguard
THE WEAVERS       We Wish You A Merry Christmas
       We Wish You A Merry Christmas       MCA

Subject: RE: Christmas music on WFDU-FM - On NOW 19 Sun. Dec!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 07:00 AM

Thanks Ron.

Folks, Imade a simple MIDI of " 'Twas on a Night Like This." It should be up in the Mudcat MIDIs soon, and there is already a thread with lyrics. That thread will pop up when the MIDI is posted.

~Susan