Various Artists - Narada Presents: The Best Of Celtic Christmas

A captivating double disc packed with fiddles, flutes, and Celtic music's brightest stars! Ireland's best-loved traditionalists sing their favorite Christmas carols on disc one (each tune features a different lead instrument or vocal): It Came upon a Midnight Clear Cathie Ryan; Get Me Through December Natalie Macmaster; the Snowy Path Altan; the Mummer's Jig/Christmas Eve Boys of the Lough; Ding Dong Merrily on High Frankie Gavin & the Irish Chamber Orchestra; Christ Child's Lullabye Kathy Mattea (yes, the American country singer!); Ceol NaNolag John Whelan, and more. Disc two highlights the award-winning Galway group Dordan with a collection of jigs and carols, many sung in Gaelic! 30 festive, thoughtful tunes in all.

1) It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Cathie Ryan
2) Christ Child's Lullabye - Kathy Mattea
3) Christmastime in Ashland - Cormac Breatnach
4) Nowel: Owt of Your Slepe Aryse - Anonymous 4
5) The Mummer's Fig - Christmas Eve - Boys of the Lough
6) Get Me Through December - Natalie MacMaster
7) I Saw Three Ships - Maddy Prior
8) Silent Night - William Jackson
9) The Snowy Path - Altan
10) Away in a Manger - El McMeen
11) Nouel - Ensemble Choral Du Bout Du Monde
12) Ding Dong Merrily on High - Frankie Gavin
13) Ceol Nanolag - John Whelan
14) Seacht Suailci Na Maighdine Muire - Aoife Ni Fhearraigh
15) Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful) - Bonnie Rideout
16) Enniscorthy Christmas Carol - Dordan
17) Leanbh Ghil Mhilis (Bright Sweet Child) - Dordan
18) Christmas Eve Reel (Tommy Coen's Reel) - Dordan
19) Mistletoe Waltz - Dordan
20) Draiocht Na Hoiche (The Magic of the Night) - Dordan
21) Winter Solstice - Dordan
22) Oiche Nollag (Christmas Eve) - Dordan
23) March of the Dreoilin - Dordan
24) Oiche Chiuin (Silent Night) - Dordan
25) Failte An Fhanai (The Wayfarer's Welcome) - Dordan
26) Don Oiche Ud I Mbeithil (Because of the Night in Bethlehem) - Dordan
27) Polly in the Holly - Dordan
28) The Gartan Mother's Lullaby - Dordan
29) Ding Dong Merrily on High - Dordan
30) Shades of Auld Lang Syne - Dordan