 Celtic Christmas Music
Celebrate the Holidays
with Celtic Music
There's no better way to celebrate the Christmas holiday season than with
fine music. Susan Hamlin and Friends popular Celtic music holiday concerts are
a great way to bring the season home. From
informal solo house concerts to rousing Christmas Musical Variety Shows with Irish step
dancers and the band, "A Celtic Christmas: Home for the Holidays"
is a breath of fresh air in today's busy world.
A Celtic Christmas Concert
A Christmas - Holiday music concert featuring Susan Hamlin (vocals, guitar)
and friends means Celtic Christmas Music of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the U.K. and
American roots.
Highlights: Readings from the classic "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by
Dylan Thomas, audience participation and a plenty of robust humor and
celebration.
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Home for the Holidays Concert
"Stunning performances..."
-- Paul Elisha, WAMC, Northeast Public Radio
Celebrate the Season of Light with a Susan's hauntingly pure vocals showcasing classics like traditional Irish
"Wexford Carol" and Robert Burns "Auld Lang Syne." "A Celtic
Christmas" is a perfect choice for your community, concert hall, library or
house concert series.
Your audience will enjoy an evening of real roots music
delivered with enthusiasm, sincerity and style. You will be welcomed into a festive "kitchen ceilidh"
holiday music experience with warmth and spontaneity.
Traditional Holiday Music
House Concerts
Celtic Christmas
Music Concerts
Celebrate the Season of Light with your own "unplugged" holiday house concert.
House concerts are catching on across the US and beyond as a simple and
spontaneous way to bring fine music home to an intimate, comfortable setting.
Invited guests and members of your extended musical family are the audience. For an intimate, informal kitchen ceilidh style
session in your own home, contact us for more
information.
Geographic region: We are based in Albany - Saratoga Springs NY and offer favorable rates for block
booking by region.
To celebrate the winter solstice in your community with Susan Hamlin's "A Celtic
Christmas - Home for the Holidays" musical show please email:
Floodwood Music Productions.
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The Wassail Song
Traditional
 Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green
Here we come a wand'ring
So fair to be seen.
Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail too,
And God bless you and send
You a happy New Year,
And God send you a happy New Year.
We are not daily beggars
That beg from door to door,
But we are neighbor's children
Whom you have seen before.
Our wassail cup is made
Of the rosemary tree,
And so is your beer
Of the best barley.
Bring us out a table,
And spread it with a cloth;
Bring us out a mouldy cheese
And some of your Christmas loaf.
God bless the master of this house,
Likewise the mistress too;
And all the little children
That round the table go.
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This carol for the New Year was sung by "waits", troupes of men and boys who
strolled among English villages during the holiday season performing carols and
expecting gifts of refreshment or money.
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The
Wexford Carol
Irish, traditional
Good people all, this Christmas-time,
Consider well and bear in mind
What our good God for us has done
In sending his beloved Son.
With Mary holy we should pray
To God with love this Christmas day;
In Bethlehem upon that morn
There was a blessed Messiah born.
There were three wise men from afar
Directed by a glorious star,
And on they wandered night and day
Until they came where Jesus lay,
And when they came unto that place
Where our beloved Messiah was,
They humbly cast them at his feet,
With gifts of gold and incense sweet.
Near Bethlehem did shepherds keep
Their flocks of lambs and feeding sheep;
To whom God's angels did appear,
Which put the shepherds in great fear.
'Prepare and go.' the angels said.
'To Bethlehem, be not afraid;
For there you'll find, this happy morn,
A princely babe, sweet Jesus born.'
With thankful heart and joyful mind,
The shepherds went the babe to find,
And as God's angel had foretold,
They did our saviour Christ behold.
Within a manger he was laid,
And by his side the virgin maid,
Attending on the Lord of life,
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