Behold That Star!
A delightful Americana panorama of ebullient gospel shouters, prim Sunday-go-to-meetin' hymns, brisk fiddle tunes, lonely slave spirituals, plucky brass band numbers, and timelss fold songs. [read more]
CD-2001 (CD Only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Christmas Revels, The
This is the show that started it all: the original medieval Christmas Revels from which all their years of merry, musical mischief first began. A jovial king prepares his castle to make merry through dark midwinter... [read more]
CD-1078 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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CT-1078 (Cassette) $5.00 [add to order]
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Wassail! Wassail!
"An album for all year...quite simply, a beautiful celebration." The Boston Globe
Revels visits early America in this classic recording featuring Kentucky folk legend Jean Ritchie... [read more]
CD-1082 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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CT-1082 (Cassette) $5.00 [add to order]
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Christmas Day in the Morning
This beautiful, frisky, and sweetly melodic recording focuses on that mystical time when Christian celebration mingled with the older pagan rituals of winter solstice. Spanning centuries and cultures, from England to Finland, Wales to Ireland, Cornwall to Early America...[read more]
CD-1087 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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CT-1087 (Cassette) $5.00 [add to order]
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Sing We Now of Christmas
"Beguiling...sung with style and energy." The Washington Post
The cast of the Cambridge Revels wanders through six centuries of European holiday music, [read more]
CD-1091 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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CT-1091 (Cassette) $5.00 [add to order]
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Child's Christmas Revels, A
"An enchanting collection." The Washington Post
English, early American, French and Irish carols are gorgeously sung with sweet, sure harmonies. As a special treat, the children caper through a frisky St. George and the Dragon play. [read more]
CD-1093 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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CT-1093 (Cassette) $5.00 [add to order]
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Victorian Christmas Revels, A
"The most festive and just plain Christmassy Revels in years... British folk singer David Jones [was] entirely charming. . . always show-stopping." The Boston Globe
The Victorian Revels is always an audience favorite, displaying the Dickensian merriment from which so much of our modern Christmas originates. [read more]
CD-2000 (CD Only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Comin' Up Shouting!
"Fans will be astonished...a brilliant and wide-ranging sampler of African-American religious song...hot, churchy rhythm taken to a fever pitch." The Boston Globe
John Andrew Ross, music director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, breathes glorious new life into vintage African-American religious music: [read more]
CD-1097 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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CT-1097 (Cassette) $5.00 [add to order]
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Christmas in an Irish Castle
"Fresh arrangements, fine musicianship and solid choral performances"--The Irish Herald [read more>
CD-1004 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Celtic Feast of Song, A:
A Celebration of the Solstice
Revels North
The Revels cast of Hanover, New Hampshire, celebrates winter solstice with exuberant Celtic fiddle tunes, tender carols, muscular Highland piping [read more]
CD-1109 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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What A Morning!
The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals
Selected and Edited by John Langstaff
Illustrated by Ashley Bryan
Arrangements for singing and piano by John Andrew Ross
A unique and powerful collection. The story of Christmas is told through classic spirituals, augmented with [read more]
PC-4225 (Paperback) $5.00 [add to order]
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Drive the Dark Away, To
...brimming with the energy of cold people keeping warm to hot dance, rich harmony, and the pleasure of each other's company...[read more]
CD-1098 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Christmas Revels Box Set (CD Box Set)
An excellent gift value in a handsome box. Includes The Christmas Revels, Wassail! Wassail!, Christmas Day in the Morning and Sing We Now of Christmas. [read more]
GB1 CD (Gift set of 4 CD's) $44.95 [add to order]
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GB1-CT (Box Set of 4 Cassettes) $18.00 [add to order]
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Christmas Revels Songbook, The
"For anyone who has ever experienced a Revels, this book is a lovely bulging Christmas stocking of familiar music; for everyone else, it's a joyful voyage
of discovery through one of the best and most unusual collections of seasonal songs and carols ever made."
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SBCD-1078 (Songbook with CD) $24.95 [add to order]
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SB-1078 (Songbook Only) $21.95 [add to order]
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Celebrate the Winter
Winter Solstice Celebrations for Schools and Communities
A remarkably easy to follow how-to book for mounting your own winter celebrations in school, community or home. Along with simple songsheets for traditional songs, carols, processionals, rounds and musical
children's games, there are tips on how to mount productions, march the processionals, dance the dances, play the games, and toast the seasons in
joyful Revels style. Prepared with illuminating background on the songs and rituals by Revels founder John Langstaff, musical director George Emlen, and
artistic director Patrick Swanson.
PC-2001 (paperback) $27.95 [add to order]
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Shortest Day Cards, The
This card reproduces the stunning illumination of Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," composed especially for Revels and recited during every Christmas Revels performance. The rich medieval colors of the illumination form a glorious setting for the celebratory nature of the poem. Sold in sets of 10 cards and envelopes (inside blank for personal message).
XA-2001 $12.95 [add to order]
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Just Say Nowell
"John Roberts and Tony Barrand...[have] an exquisite knack for transporting us into the ambience of ancient songs without seeming the least affected. Their singing [is] lusty, pleasantly reedy, and melodically crisp."
--The Boston Globe
John Roberts and Tony Barrand are among the most beloved British folk singers on either side of the pond, and frequent Revels stars. Their own annual Nowel
Sing We Clear shows are Revels-ian pagents of midwinter mirth, pretty carols, and lore exploring the ancient midwinter rites from which our modern
Christmas grew. The Nowell cast also includes Fred Breunig and Andy Davis, and this 2000 Golden Hind CD brims with friendly cheer, handsome harmonies, and rare traditional mastery. The 16 songs include "The Truth from Above," "The First Nowell," "The Holly and the Ivy," "Joy to the World," and "Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy."
CD-3006 (CD Only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Awake to Joy
Christmas Carols for Part Singing
Compiled by Nym Cooke. This songbook has an excellent collection of Victorian party songs,Yorkshire pub carols, New England fuguing tunes, French noels, German Reformation part-songs, Southern shape-note pieces, exciting new versions of "Good King Wenceslas" and the "Boar's Head Carol," as well as original material. Many of these 57 pieces are not available anywhere else. Annotated and illustrated, with optional instrumental descants and interludes.
PC-1205 (paperback) $29.95 [add to order]
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Stag Card
Photograph of the stag created by Ralph Lee for the 1994 Christmas Revels in Sanders Theatre. Cards blank on the inside. Set of 10 cards and envelopes, 5x7 on glossy card stock.
XB-2004 $12.95 [add to order]
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Procession Cards
Photograph of the children's chorus during the 1993 Christmas Revels in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge. Cards are blank on the inside. Cards blank on the inside. Set of 10 cards and envelopes, 5x7 on glossy card stock.
XD-2004 $12.95 [add to order]
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Rose and Thistle
Rose & Thistle, Revels’ newest recording, is a superb collection of choral and instrumental music from England and Scotland. The best music from the 2001 and 2003 performances [read more]
CD-2005 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Shortest Day, The - Matted Print
For everyone who loves the poem "The Shortest Day," recited in every Christmas Revels performance. The poem is framed by a beautifully designed Renaissance-style floral border, with 4 celebratory figures at the base, originally painted at the Cornwell Scribe Works in Chico, California. Printed in rich colors with gold metallic touches and matted on black board with gold trim. 12" x 16" (mat included). An ideal gift for that special person on your list.
P-2001 $40.00 [add to order]
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Twelve Days of Christmas, The
Caldecott honor-medalist Ilse Plume has created a splendid Italian Renaissance setting for the lyrics of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Inspired by Florentine beastiaries, miniatures and Books of Hours, she gives us a lovingly detalied 15th-century garden, home to a young noblewoman, the recipient of a series of increasingly lavish gifts from her courtly suitor. Plume's little book is a traditional yet fresh interpretation of a Christmas favorite - a gift book that celebrates the joys of gift giving.
HC-4500 (Hardcover) $17.95 [add to order]
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Awake to Joy Vol. II
the long-awaited second volume of Nym Cooke's Awake to Joy!, subtitled Carols and Part-Songs for the Shortest Days and Longest
Nights, is here, [read more]
SB-1210 $29.95 [add to order]
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Christmas Sonnets, The
... a stunning volume of sonnets offering a unique and poetic window...on the Christmas story... [read more]
PC-4012 $9.00 [add to order]
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Shortest Day Book, The
Long ago, leading up to the winter solstice, people grew afraid as the days got shorter. [read more]
HC-3894 (Hardcover) $16.99 [add to order]
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