A Cracklin' Good Christmas

by Pig's Ear

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1.	Christmas is Coming 01:56	info	buy track
2.	Christmas Fayre 03:19	info	buy track
3.	The Boar's Head Carol 02:46	info	buy track
4.	A Song for a Time 04:10	info	buy track
5.	Gaudete 02:36	info	buy track
6.	We Three Kings 02:29	info	buy track
7.	Shepherds Arise! 03:41	info	buy track
8.	Patapan 03:43	info	buy track
9.	The Holly and the Ivy 02:33	info	buy track
10.	While Shepherds Watched 02:40	info	buy track
11.	Sing in the New 03:53	info	buy track
12.	Bring the New Year In 04:14	info	buy track
13.	The Cutty Wren 06:27	info	buy track
14.	So Dies Our King 03:38	info	buy track
15.	Here We Come A-Wassailing 02:43	info	buy track
16.	Candlemas Eve 03:56	info	buy track
17.	Please to see the King 03:25	info	buy track

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In 1994 Pig's Ear released a cassette of songs related to the festive season (the one that happens in December). Nine years later, in 2003, they recaptured it, added several more seasonal offerings, and re-issued it on CD. Now you can enjoy the festivities with a download!

credits

released November 30, 2003

Sue Rule - vocals, guitar, recorder, bouzouki, violin, harp
Lyndsey Rule - vocals, recorders, oboe, flutes
Grant Rule - vocals, Appalachian dulcimer, bodhran
Keith Rule - vocals, percussion, bowed psaltery
with Ty Watling on double bass on So Dies Our King

All tracks arranged by Pig's Ear. Information and credits included on the origins of each track, lyrics and tune where known.

Re-released for download by Notbob Records.

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Pig's Ear England, UK

Pig's Ear was a family folk group that entertained audiences from the late 1980s to 2011, with a mix of carefully collected and researched traditional folk, self-penned songs and creative musical arrangements. Based in Kent, near the Sussex & Surrey border, in 2003 they started a small festival 'The Pig's Ear Folk Ale' at Markbeech, Kent which is still going today - folkale.co.uk ... more

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