Broad Oak Magazine

Saturday, December 23, 2023

JD's 2023 Advent Calendar (23) - nearly there!

Christmas Must Be Tonight | The Band |

Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong (Official Video)

Amy Grant Vince Gill Tennessee Christmas 1993

Friday, December 22, 2023

JD's 2023 Advent Calendar (22) - music at the Winter Solstice

Today is the winter solstice, at 3:27GMT this morning to be precise. The summer starts here! (possibly)

Yo-Yo Ma, Alison Krauss - The Wexford Carol (Video)

Yorkshire carol Sweet Bells (Kate Rusby)

From BBC programme Songs of Praise

(Carols from Yorkshire, Sunday 5 December 2010),

presented by Aled Jones

Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Thursday, December 21, 2023

Windy Day

Click vid to watch on Roobarb and Custard on YouTube:

JD's 2023 Advent Calendar (21)

Today, a mix of Irish, French and French Canadian:

Chieftains - A Breton Carol (1987)

The Christ Child's Lullaby - Celtic Christmas

The "Huron Carol" (or "'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime") is a Christmas hymn, written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Christian missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title is "Jesous Ahatonhia" ("Jesus, he is born"). The song's melody is a traditional French folk song, "Une Jeune Pucelle" ("A Young Maid"). The well known English lyrics were written in 1926 by Jesse Edgar Middleton.

This version is performed by Heather Dale, and sung in Wendat (Huron), French and English.