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A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Songs for Christmas and the New Year Collected by Alan Lomax

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

As we approach the end of the centennial year of the birth of Alan Lomax, it seems appropriate to look at recordings of songs and music he collected celebrating Christmas, the new year, and Epiphany.  The recordings presented here are all part of the collections of the American Folklife Center, but many have been put …