Gather up your presents. Hop in the car. Let's go for a drive to visit family and friends with this delightful playlist of Celtic Christmas music for the road.
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Nollaig Shona Daoibh! Welcome to the Celtic Christmas Playlist.
I love Christmas music. I also love Celtic music. Seeing those two musical themes merged is something credible to hear… when it's done correctly.
The problem for me is that “Celtic Christmas” is just as much a marketing term as a musical style. So anyone with far too much reverb on their instruments or with a keyboard piano can call their music “Celtic Christmas”.
My goal is to share Christmas music from Celtic musicians to redefine what it means to be Celtic Christmas music.
To that end, I have numerous Celtic Christmas Playlists. I'll share more on my blog in the coming weeks as we approach Christmas. In the meantime, I created this playlist of Christmas Driving Music. It's the type of music you might listen to as you're visiting family or friends. It's upbeat (so you don't fall asleep at the wheel). It's fun. It's packed full of Christmas spirit.
Oh! And one of MY favorite things is that it is packed full of Celtic musicians who I also play on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. So I can continue to help the small, independent musicians who are struggling to promote their music all by themselves, without a big record label.
THANK YOU CHRISTMAS PATRONS
This Christmas Driving Playlist is brought to you by my Christmas Patrons on Patreon. Thanks to Joe Hale, Hank Woodward, Tara Hebert, Robert Michael Kane, Trevor N. Teuscher, Jan Czenkusch.
I also want to thank this show's very first Producer, Carol Baril.
These amazing people pledge quite generously during the holiday season to support the playlist as well as the corresponding Celtic Christmas Podcast episodes I release.
This year, I have features on Matt & Shannon Heaton, Gaelynn Lea, and Abbots Cross. You can hear the feature in the playlist.
If you prefer an actual podcast edition of this playlist with bonus music, join the Christmas Patrons.
You can find more Celtic Christmas Playlists here or find more of my playlists here.
CELTIC CHRISTMAS PLAYLIST
Runa “Here We Come a Wassailing / Sussex Carol” from The Tide of Winter
The Gothard Sisters “Winter Wonderland” from Falling Snow
Cherish the Ladies “Good King Wenceslas / The Thrush in the Storm” from Christmas in Ireland
Liz Madden “We Three Kings” from Christmas with Liz Madden
Abbots Cross “Lucy Farr's Barn Dance / Angels We Have Heard on High / Peelor's Jacket” from Christmas Visions
Marc Gunn “Yuletide” from Single
Matt & Shannon Heaton “It Came Upon The Midnight Clear” from Fine Winter's Night
Natalie MacMaster|Donnell Leahy “The Christmas Medley” from A Celtic Family Christmas
Emish “O Holy Night” from Everlasting
The Jig Is Up! “At Last I’m Ready for Christmas” from A Penny for the Wren
Gaelynn Lea “Angels from the Realms of Glory / Joy to the World” from Deepest Darkness, Brightest Dawn
Tommy Sands “Like the First Time It's Christmas Time” from Irish Xmas / Shorten Winter
Mark O'Connor “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” from An Appalachian Christmas
Legacy With Jim Flanagan “Christmas Eve Greenery Christmas Eve / the Evergreen Reel / New” from An Irish Christmas: Songs and Music of West Cork
The Pogues “Fairytale of New York” from Radio Edit Single
Peat in the Creel “Cold Winter Day, Christmas Eve Reel” from Winter
The Barra MacNeils “Christmas In Killarney” from The Christmas Album
Cynthia Shelhart “That Night in Bethlehem (Don Oíche úd I mBeithil)/Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” from That Night In Bethlehem
Screaming Orphans “Song We Used to Sing” from Single
Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer “Deck the Halls” from A Sound of Christmas Past
Eileen Ivers “The Wexford Carol” from An Nollaig: An Irish Christmas
Reilly “The Little Drummer Boy” from Kick Ass Celtic Christmas
Triskele “Christmas Is A Coming” from Christmas Is A Comin’
Marc Gunn “The Scottish King of Christmas” from Celtic Christmas Greetings
The Selkie Girls “I Saw Three Ships” from Winter Lore: Songs of Celtic Christmas
The Irish Rovers “Bells Over Belfast” from An Irish Christmas
IF YOU ENJOY THESE ARTISTS…
Follow them on streaming and add one of their songs to your playlist. You can also buy music from them, sign up to their mailing list and share the playlist on social media.
Celtic Christmas Podcast was produced by Carol Baril. The show was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. Executive Producer is Marc Gunn.
Thank you again for supporting Celtic Christmas music. Nollaig Shona Daoibh!
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