My Samhain Playlist

1. Before All Hallows Eve – Caiseal Mór (The Well of Yearning)

2. The Gates – Reclaiming & Friends (Let it Begin Now: Music from the Spiral Dance)

3. Pass Through the Portal – Abigail Spinner McBride (Family of Fire)

4. Let the Fire Begin – Mary Jane (Eve)

5. No End to the Circle: Goddess Invocation – Reclaiming & Friends (Let it Begin Now: Music from the Spiral Dance)

6. Demeter’s Song – Reclaiming & Friends (Let it Begin Now: Music from the Spiral Dance)

7. Ancestor Chant – Sharon Knight & T. Thorn Coyle (Songs for the Waning Year)

8. Men of Erin – The Elders (American Wake)

9. All Soul’s Night  – Loreena McKennitt (The Visit)

10. Lyke-Wake Dirge – Pentangle (Basket of Light)

11. Samhain Eve – Damh the Bard (The Hills They Are Hollow)

12. Alison Cross – Malinky (Last Leaves)

13. Fires at Midnight  – Blackmore’s Night (Fires at Midnight)

14. Dante’s Prayer – Loreena McKennitt (The Book of Secrets)

15. Breaths – Sweet Honey In The Rock (Good News)

16. The Unquiet Grave – Solas (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)

17. So Spricht Das Leben (So Sayeth Life) – The Mediaeval Baebes (Worldes Blysse)

18. Samhain Night  – Jenna Greene (Wild Earth Child)

19. In The Wind – Lord Huron (Lonesome Dreams)

20. Tam Lin (Child 39) – Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer (Child Ballads)

21. When We Are Gone – Reclaiming (Second Chants)

22. Farewell, Farewell – Fairport Convention (The Best of Sandy Denny)

23. The Parting Glass  – The Wailin’ Jennys (40 Days)

24. Beloved – Mumford & Sons (Delta)

25. May it Be – Voces8 (Enya/Lord of the Rings)

26. Dance in the Graveyards – Delta Rae (Carry the Fire)

You can listen to them all on one playlist here.

My Autumn Equinox Playlist

• Health to the Company – Blackmore’s Night (Autumn Sky)

• Mother Earth (Provides For Me) – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Dirt, Silver & Gold)

• Woodland – Paper Kites (Woodland)

• I Sing to the Mother Gaia, I Sing to the Father Sun – Joseph Anthony (Be Here Now, Songs for the Wonder Child)

• First Leaves of Autumn – The Fureys (My Father’s House)

• Meadowlarks – Fleet Foxes (Fleet Foxes)

• Coinleach Glas an Fhómhair – Clannad (Past Present)

• Harvest Chant – Reclaiming (Campfire Chants: Songs for the Earth)

• Tis’ Autumn – Beverly Kenney (Sings for Johnny Smith)

• Harvest – Jenna Greene (Crossroads)

• Autumn Time – Libana (A Circle is Cast)

• Harvest Song – Beltane (Beltane)

• Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything there is a Season) – The Byrds (Greatest Hits)

• Autumn Song – Van Morrison (Hard Nose the Highway)

• Harvest Season – Heather Alexander (Wanderlust)

• Rivendell – Rush (Fly by Night)

• Marigold/Harvest Home – Maddy Prior (Year)

• Autumn’s Twilight – Kiva (Out of the Corner of the Eye)

• Forever Autumn – Jeff Wayne (Highlights from Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds)

• Mother I Feel you Under my Feet – Gila Antara (Sonnengesang)

• Mother Earth and Father Time – Debbie Reynolds (Charlotte’s Web Soundtrack)

• Time In A Bottle – Lykke Li (Time In A Bottle)

• Letting Go – Seal (Seal 6: Commitment)

• Sons and Daughters – Allman Brown & Liz Lawrence

• Leaves That Are Green – Simon & Garfunkel (Sounds of Silence)

• My Lady of Autumn – Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman (Constant Lovers)

• Harvest Moon – Sharron Kraus (Fox’s Wedding)

• Go to the Very Edge – Ruth Barrett (The Year Is a Dancing Woman, Vol. 2)

• Time Of No Reply – Nick Drake (Time Of No Reply)

You can listen to them all on one playlist here.

My Yule Playlist

1. Deck the Halls – Smithfield Fair (The Winter Kirk)

2. Santa Claus is Pagan Too – Emerald Rose (Four Fat Dads)

3. Mistletoe Bough – Steeleye Span (Winter)

4. Sister Winter – Sufjan Stevens (Songs for Christmas)

5. Sun Queen – Silver on the Tree (Morning Glory)

6. Solstice Evergreen – Spiral Dance

7. Firedance – Jaiya (Firedance: Songs for the Winter Solstice)

8. Frosty Solstice Morn – The Dolmen (Winter Solstice)

9. Abbots Bromley Horn Dance – Maggie Sansone (Sounds of the Season)

10. Stag Lord & Queen – The Dolmen (Winter Solstice)

11. Holly Lord – Spiral Dance (From the Mist)

12. The Fairest Maid – MotherTongue (This Winter’s Night)

13. Solstice Song – Denise Jordan Finley (Solstice)

14. Patapan – Damh the Bard (Tales from the Crow Man)

15. Solstice Carol – Ravens (Rise with the Moon)

16. Holly & Mistletoe – The Dolmen (Winter Solstice)

17. The Wintery Queen – Gwydion Pendderwen (Songs for the Old Religion)

18. The Christians and the Pagans – Dar Williams (Many Great Companions)

19. Solstice Carol – Antiphony

20. The Holly and the Ivy – Tingstad and Rumbel (Star of Wonder)

21. Unconquered Sun – Steeleye Span (Winter)

22. Song for a Winter’s Night – Gordon Lightfoot (Gord’s Gold)

23. Ring Solstice Bells – Jethro Tull (Songs from the Wood)

24. Solstice Song – Leah Salomaa (Under a Winter Star)

25. Light is Returning – Kiva (Yuletide)

You can listen to them all on one playlist here.

My Summer Thermstice (Lúnasa/Lammas) Playlist

• Call the Circle – Jenneth Graham

• The Berry Song – Linda Hirschhorn (Gather Round: Songs of Celebration and Renewal)

• John Barleycorn – Steeleye Span (Below the Salt)

• Reaphook and the Sickle – Waterson Carthy (Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man)

• Comin’ Thro The Rye – Honeychild Coleman (Bereket Window)

• Lughnasadh – Hymir’s Kettle (Journey to Utgard)

• Corn Rigs – Magnet (The Wicker Man Original Soundtrack Recording)

• Scarborough Fair – Simon & Garfunkel (Greatest Hits)

• Lughnasadh – Omnia (Pagan Folk)

• Harvest Moon – Neil Young (Harvest Moon)

• August – Anúna (Songs of the Whispering Things)

• Lammastide – from the musical “The Woman in White”

• The Wind That Shakes The Barley – Solas (Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers)

• The Hills of Connemara – Gaelic Storm (Gaelic Storm)

• Brigg Fair – Richard Grainger (War Horse)

• Heartbeat of Harvest – Cernunnos Rising (Wild Soul)

• Sonnenreigen – Faun (Midgard)

• The Coarncraik – Deaf Shepherd (Synergy)

• King Harvest – The Band (Greatest Hits)

• Fields of Gold – Tyler Ward & Lindsey Stirling & Peter Hollens

• Storm Comin’ – Wailin’ Jennys (Bright Morning Stars)

• The Scythe – Gaia Consort (Evolve)

• Fall Down as the Rain – Joe Crookston (Fall Down as the Rain)

You can listen to them all on one playlist here.

My Summer Solstice Playlist

• Solstice Call – Gaia Consort (Evolve)

• Sun Arise – Rolf Harris (Can You Tell What It Is Yet?)

• Rise With the Fire – Reclaiming (Chants: Ritual Music)

• Summer Solstice – Libana (Night Passage: Invocations for the Journey)

• Sacred Fire – Denean (Fire Prayer)

• Firebird’s Child – S.J. Tucker (Blessings)

• Sister Sunshine – Omnia (Wolf Love)

• Dancing at Whitsun – Maddy Prior & Tim Hart (Heydays)

• Litha – Lisa Thiel (Circle of the Seasons)

• Fire Leap – Magnet (The Wicker Man – Original Soundtrack Recording)

• Rosebud in June – Steeleye Span (Below the Salt)

• Anthem to the Sun – Deborah & Rick Hamouris (Welcome to Annwfn)

• Midnight Sun – Strawbs (Hero and Heroine)

• The Hills They Are Hollow – Damh the Bard (The Hills They Are Hollow)

• Don’t Carry It All – The Decemberists (The King is Dead)

• Summer Solstice Song – Kendalin (Opening)

• Follow the Sun – Xavier Rudd (Spirit Bird)

• Hard Sun – Eddie Vedder (Into the Wild)

• Sunny – Bobby Hebb (Sunny)

• Infinite Sun – Kula Shaker (K2.0)

• Song for Summer Solstice – Libby Roderick (Thinking Like a Mountain)

• Let My Eye Go To The Sun – Parnassus (First Degree)

You can listen to them all on one playlist here.

My May Day Playlist

• Thugamar Fein an Samhradh Linn – Wolfe Tones (As Gaeilege)

• Flowering Earth  – Ani Williams & Lisa Thiel (Sisters of the Dream)

• The Wild Mountain Thyme – The Corries (Silver collection)

• Weaving the Summer  – Spiral Dance (The Quickening)

• The Pretty Maid  – Clannad (Clannad)

• Till April is Dead – Lisa Knapp (Till April is Dead – A Garland of May)

• Padstow – Steeleye Span (Folk Rock Pioneers In Concert)

• Bealtaine Song – La Lugh (Senex Puer)

• Faery Song – Lisa Thiel (Invocation of the Graces)

• Hal-An-Tow  – The Watersons (Frost and Fire)

• Blessings of Beltane – Cernunnos Rising (Wild Soul)

• Pleasant Month of May – Lisa Knapp (Till April is Dead – A Garland of May)

• Maypole – Magnet (The Wicker Man – Original Soundtrack Recording)

• The Market Song – Faun (Eden)

• Beltane Fires – Gaia Consort (Secret Voices)

• Sumer Is Icumen In  – Circulus (Thought Becomes Reality)

• Mating Dance / Beltane – Jenna Greene (Crossroads)

• Tine Bealtaine – Omnia (Pagan Folk)

• Beltane Fires – Oxymora (Thundering Silence)

• Under a Beltane Sun – Damh the Bard (Antlered Crown and Standing Stone)

• Walpurgisnacht – Faun (Luna)

• The May Queen – Robert Plant (Carry Fire)

• The Night Before May Day – Lisa Knapp (Till April is Dead – A Garland of May)

• Cup of Wonder – Jethro Tull (Songs from the Woods)

• Samhradh, Samhradh – The Chieftains (The Chieftains 5)

• May Morning Dew – Siobhan Miller (All Is Not Forgotten)

• Queen of the May – Belshazzar’s Feast (Find the Lady)

• Sumer Is Icumen In – Liederlicher Unfug (Mirst von herzen leide)

• Staines Morris – Wren of Iniquity (Wren of Iniquity)

• Wildwood Flower – Emmylou Harris (Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems)

• Cherry Blossom Love – The Wailin’ Jennys (Bright Morning Stars)

You can listen to them all on one playlist here.

My Spring Equinox Playlist

• O’ She Will Bring  – Alice Di Micele (Circle of Women)

• Green Man – Kiva (Out of the Corner of the Eye)

• Shine – Wendy Rule (Deity)

• Springtime Promises – The Pentangle (Basket of Light)

• Down by the Sally Gardens  – Maura O’Connell with Karen Matheson (Transatlantic Sessions)

• Lord of the Dance – Gwydion Pendderwen (Songs for the Old Religion)

• Persephone Song – Anne Hill (Circle Round & Sing)

• Golden Flower  – Ani Williams & Lisa Thiel (Sisters of the Dream)

• Kore Chant  – Reclaiming & Friends (Chants: Ritual Music)

• Joys of Springtime – Sharon Knight and T. Thorn Coyle (Songs for the Strengthening Sun)

• Ostara – Lisa Thiel (Circle of the Seasons)

• First Spring Day  – Sub-Urban Tribe (Panorama)

• De Colores – Sara Pirtle (Two Hands Hold the Earth)

• Sunshine – POWERS (Sunshine)

• Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Florence + The Machine (Between Two Lungs)

• Ostara – Bell, Book and Canto (Invocation)

• Happy Equinox Pagan Spring Dance – Andrei Krylov, Lana Ross (Medieval Bard Music Fantasy in Folk Lute & Celtic Guitar Songs)

• Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra (Out of the Blue)

• The Fool of Spring – Mama (We Bring You a King with a Head of Gold)

• Spring Strathspey – Gwydion Pendderwen (Songs for the Old Religion)

• The Song Of Wandering Aengus – Donovan (HMS Donovan)

• Carry On – Crosby, Stills & Nash (Questions)

• Grow Grow Grow – PJ Harvey (White Chalk)

• Persephone – Kellianna (Lady Moon)

• Lady Fuchsia – Jen Vanderlyn (Ostara)

• Tell Me of Spring – Air Supply (Yours Truly)

• Mother Nature’s Son – The Beatles (White Album)

• Spring – Joy Kills Sorrow (Joy Kills Sorrow)

• May the Long Time Sun Shine – Paramjeet Singh & Kaur (May the Long Time Sun Shine)

• Sun Giant – Fleet Foxes (Sun Giant)

• Flower Duet  – Lakmé Act I – Viens, Mallika

You can listen to them all on one playlist here.

My Imbolc Playlist

1. Way to the Well – Ruth Barrett (The Year is a Dancing Woman)

2. The Wild Song – Anúna (Selected II 1987-2017)

3. Imbolc Song – S.J. Tucker

4. Hallaig – Martyn Bennett (Bothy Culture)

5. Rise Up O Flame – Libana (Fire Within)

6. Welcome Brid – Beverly Frederick

7. Candlemas Song – Lisa Thiel (Songs of Healing)

8. Return to the Mother – Reclaiming (Chants: Ritual Music)

9. Born of Water – Lila (Return of the Goddess)

10. The Quickening – Spiral Dance (The Quickening)

11. Song to Brighid – Lisa Thiel (Song for my Ancestors)

12. Shine – Dolly Parton (Little Sparrow)

13. Brighid – Kellianna (Lady Moon)

14. The Rising of the Sun – Anúna (Selected II 1987-2017)

15. The Well – Woodland (Heritage)

16. Imbolc – Lisa Thiel (Circle of the Seasons)

17. Holy Well & Sacred Flame – Beverly Frederick

18. Shining Water – Anúna (Selected II 1987-2017)

19. The Dove’s Return – Aine Minogue (Winter: A Meditation)

20. Gabhain Molta Bhride – Claire Roche (Songs from the Harp Room)

21. Deeper Well – Wailin’ Jennys (Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House)

22. Brighid’s Kiss – La Lugh (Senex Puer)

You can listen to them all on one playlist here.

My Winter Solstice Playlist

1. The Christians and the Pagans – Dar Williams
2. Solstice Song – Leah Salomaa
3. Stag Lord and Queen – Dolmen
4. The Arrival of the Wren Boys – The Chieftains
5. The Dingle Set: Dance – The Chieftains
6. Winter Solstice Night – Dolmen
7. Weathercock – Jethro Tull
8. Golden Sickle Sunrise – Dolmen
9. Firedance – Jaiya
10.The Oak and Holly Kings – Dolmen
11.Dance to Your Shadow – Jaiya
12.Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow – Jethro Tull
13.Yule is Come – Jaiya
14.Holly and Mistletoe – Dolmen
15.The Farewell: Piper Throught the Meadow Strayed – The Chieftains
16.The Year is Born Anew – Jaiya
17.Frosty Solstice Morn – Dolmen
18.Solus (Light) – Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill
19.Light is Returning – Charlie Murphy and Jamie Sieber
20.Ring Out Solstice Bells – Jethro Tull

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I’ve also been listening to “This Winter’s Night” by MotherTongue- on tape.  For some crazy reason I can’t find it on CD or a download.  This recording has the best ever rendition of “Carole of the Bells” that I have ever heard- accompanied by drums!  Other great tracks from the MotherTongue recording include; “Abbots Bromley Horn Dance/ This Longest Night”, and the serenely beautiful “Winter Solstice Sunrise”.