Colonial Christmas: Barry Phillips

Catalog Number: GM139
Label: Gourd Music
Format: CD

Available: 8
Price: $15.99

Performers: Barry Phillips, Christa Stiner, Deby Benton Grosjean, Jesse Autumn, Lars Johannesson, Linda Burman-Hall, Neal Hellman, Olov Johansson, Robert Evans, Robin Petrie, Sarah-Jane Summers, Shelley Phillips

American choral pieces by William Billings and other early American composers, dance tunes from John Playford's The English Dancing Master, and folk tunes of the period and earlier.

Colonial Christmas is a reflection from today, a look back at a variety of music that might well have been played at a Christmas party in colonial America.

Barry Phillips, cello, bowed psaltery, mandolin, zither & cittern
Shelley Phillips, oboe, pennywhistle, recorder consort & English horn
Deby Benton Grosjean, fiddle
Jesse Autumn, double harp
Neal Hellman, mountain dulcimer
Lars Johannesson, flute
Robin Petrie, hammered dulcimer
Christa Stiner, bassoon
Sarah-Jane Summers, fiddle
Linda Burman-Hall, harpsichord
Olov Johansson, nyckelharpa
Robert Evans, fiddle

	Track Listing	Time
1	The Merry Wassail	1:59
2	Drive the Cold Winter Away	3:06
3	The Sussex Carol	2:36
4	Milford	2:58
5	Christ Child Lullaby	5:10
6	Christmas (Munson)	1:21
7	New Years Eve	2:53
8	Höken	2:46
9	Cold and Raww	3:45
10	Nos Galan (Deck the Hall)	2:14
11	Sherburne	2:23
12	Ding Dong Merrily on High	2:48
13	The Wexford Carol	3:07
14	Christmas (Urania)	2:33
15	Judea	2:59
16	Shiloh	2:31
17	Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming	2:14