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Wassail!

Kathryn Tickell curates a dazzling selection of roots-based music for the festive season. And Devonshire folk-singer Jim Causley selects a triptych of seasonal Wassails.

Kathryn Tickell curates a dazzling selection of roots-based music. Devonian, folk-singer Jim Causley will be selecting a triptych of seasonal Wassails, Wassailing is a Twelfth Night tradition with pagan roots, typically folks would visit local orchards and fruit trees and would sing songs and made a hullabaloo by banging pots and pans, and would be given spiced alcoholic drink from a communal wassail bowl or cup by the orchard owner.

Elsewhere in the show Yanvalou rhythms from Haitian-Canadian singer, guitarist and folklorist Wesli, Nubian and Nilotic melodies from Italian Sudanese singer Amira Kheir and Aoife N铆 Bhriain and Cormac McCarthy reimagines Irish traditional music through Jazz inflection. As well as live recordings from the illustrious Copper family who will be dusting off the songbook to sing a Christmas carol or two.

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Last on

Sat 20 Dec 2025 21:30

Music Played

  • Kansas City Kitty

    Christmas Morning Blues

    • Where Will You Be Christmas Day.
    • Dust-to-Digital.
  • Aoife N铆 Bhriain & Cormac McCarthy

    Cailleach

    • Cos谩n Casta.
    • Ceirn铆n铆 Casta.
  • Sigrid Moldestad, Johan Hedin & Esbj枚rn Hazelius

    Haugebonden

    • Vinternatt.
    • Talik Records.
  • Trad.

    Ring Out The Bells

    Performer: The Copper Family.
    • The Copper Family Live Performance.
  • Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin

    Abe Wanene

    • Christmas In the Congo.
    • El Records.
  • The Staple Singers

    The Last Month of the Year

    • The Twenty-Fifth Day Of December.
    • Riverside Records.
  • Arthur Cormack

    Christ Child's Lullaby

    • Christmas Music Through The Ages.
    • Saydisc.
  • Jim Causley

    The Jacobstowe Wassail / Christmas Morn

    • A Causley Christmas.
    • Hr艒c Music.
  • The Watersons

    Here We Come a-Wassailing

    • Frost and Fire: A Calendar of Ritual and Magical Songs.
    • Topic Records.
  • Phil Tanner

    The Gower Wassail

    • The Gower Nightingale.
    • Veteran Tapes.
  • Jim Causley

    Halstow Wassail in the Cider Cellar

    • The Georgic.
    • Hr艒c Music.
  • Dick Gaughan

    The Snows They Melt the Soonest

    • Handful of Earth.
    • Topic Records.
  • Wesli

    Papa Loco

    • Makaya.
    • WUP Wes Urban Productions.
  • Amira Kheir

    Rabie Aljamal (Spring of Wonder)

    • Black Diamonds.
    • Sterns Music.
  • Traditional Sussex

    Thousands or More

    Performer: The Copper Family.
    • The Copper Family, Live at The Castle in Dulwich.
  • Alterne

    To S酶stre

    • To S酶stre.
    • GO Danish Folk Music.
  • The Barra MacNeils

    Christmas Comes But Once a Year (Christmas in Carrick)

    • The Christmas Album.
    • Barratone.

Broadcast

  • Sat 20 Dec 2025 21:30

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