21 - Songs of Christmas, Midwinter, and New Year

An admittedly cursory holiday mix presenting performances from our new digital release, "Songs of Christmas, New Year, and Midwinter from the Lomax Collection," available now on the Lomax Archive's Bandcamp page (https://alanlomaxarchive.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-christmas-midwinter-new-year) as well as the streaming services.We invite you to pair this mix with our older holiday-themed episode (http://culturalequity.org/node/1039), which features other related material (if some occasional overlap) and the complete "Sing Christmas" program. This ambitious radio broadcast was produced by Alan for the BBC on Christmas Day 1951, and featured regional Yuletide traditions transmitted via live hook-ups all across Britain. 1) Vera Ward Hall: No Room at the Inn story / song (The home of Vera Ward Hall, Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama, October 10, 1959). (https://archive.culturalequity.org/solr-search/content/list?search_api_fulltext=no+room+at+the+inn¬_type=&is_type=&sort_by=field_edtf_date_created&sort_order=ASC&items_per_page=75)2) United Sacred Harp Musical Association: Sherburne (56th Annual United Sacred Harp Musical Association Convention, Corinth Baptist Church, Fyffe, Dekalb County, Alabama, September 12, 1959) (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/fyffe-959/sherburne-186)3) Steven Wright: Jingle Bells (New York City, New York, 1950) (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/steven-wright-1950/new-york-city-1950/jingle-bells)4) Group from Sangonera la Verde, Murcia: Rondalla (En tu puerta está la Virgen) ( (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/monteagudo-1252/en-tu-puerta-esta-la-virgen)Monteagudo (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/monteagudo-1252/en-tu-puerta-esta-la-virgen),  (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/monteagudo-1252/en-tu-puerta-esta-la-virgen)Murcia (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/monteagudo-1252/en-tu-puerta-esta-la-virgen),  (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/monteagudo-1252/en-tu-puerta-esta-la-virgen)Región de Murcia (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/monteagudo-1252/en-tu-puerta-esta-la-virgen),  (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/monteagudo-1252/en-tu-puerta-esta-la-virgen)Spain, December 14, 1952) (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/spain-1952-1953/monteagudo-1252/en-tu-puerta-esta-la-virgen)5) Alice Gibbs and group: Today, Today is Christmas Day ( (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/dominican-republic-and-sint-eustatius-1967/sint-eustatius-1967/today-today-christmas-0)Sint Eustatius (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/dominican-republic-and-sint-eustatius-1967/sint-eustatius-1967/today-today-christmas-0),  (https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/dominican-republic-and-sint-eustatius-1967/sint-eustatius-1967/today-today-christmas-0)Bonaire,

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"Been All Around This World" explores the breadth and depth of folklorist Alan Lomax's seven decades of field recordings. From the earliest trips he made through the American South with his father, John A. Lomax, beginning in 1933, to his last documentary work in the early 1990s, the program will present seminal artists and performances alongside obscure, unidentified, and previously unheard singers and players, from around America and the world, drawn from the Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. It hosted by Nathan Salsburg, curator of the Alan Lomax Archive, alongside co-host and producer Michael Cormier-O'Leary, program coordinator at the Association for Cultural Equity, the non-profit research center and advocacy organization that Lomax founded in 1983. (Photo of Alan Lomax by Peter Figlestahler.)