It’s amazing how quick these twenty-five songs go by each year. It’s also amazing how quick each year is coming around. Gabriel’s Message is becoming a recurring visitor to this annual collection. Here’s a rendition by The Good Shepherd Band.
Here’s the final weekly Advent/Christmas song by the Orchardist. This time it’s Psalm 126. “Those who sow with tears reap songs of joy”
Buddy Greene’s rendition of the Canticle Of The Turning has a great folk feel that suits the background of the melody well. I’ve sung the hymn I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say to this tune, but I haven’t used this hymn (yet). The lyrics evoke the Advent season’s sense of anticipation.
Sweet Chiming Bells – Kate Rusby provides another variation of the folk setting of While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night. This is from her just released (fourth!) Christmas album, Angels And Men.