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Pop-up player!| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Approx. start time |
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| Greg Miner |
We Three Kings of Orient Are
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A Christmas Collection | Miner Music | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||
| Bukkene Bruse |
Christmas Gangar (Romjulsgangar)
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The Loveliest Rose | 2009 | Bukkene Bruse is a Norwegian traditional folk music band, presenting a varied repertoire of traditional and folk-style Norwegian songs, but also including many new compositions based on various Norwegian musical traditions. | 0:04:46 (Pop-up) | |
| Kitka |
Collage of Koleda Carols (Bulgarian)
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Evening Star | 2018 | Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble is an all-female professional vocal ensemble based in Oakland, California and focused on Eastern European women’s vocal traditions. It was founded in 1979 as an offshoot of the Westwind International Folk Ensemble. | 0:08:26 (Pop-up) | |
| Zedashe |
Otsdakhuta
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Silver Sanctuary | Electric Cowbell | 2020 | Zedashe Ensemble is a vocal and dance group based in the eastern medieval fortress city of Sighnaghi, Caucasus Georgia. Directed by Ketevan Mindorashvili, the ensemble was founded in the mid-1990's to sing polyphonic chants, unique to Georgia, that were largely lost during the Communist era. | 0:11:20 (Pop-up) |
| Simpiwe Manana |
Sizalelwe Indodana
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Kuthi Mangigiye | 2015 | South African gospel vocal enseemble. | 0:14:48 (Pop-up) | |
| Chị Kayla |
Christmas Medley in Vietnamese Style
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Vietglish Fun | Vietnamese singer and comedian. | 0:22:43 (Pop-up) | ||
| Kroke |
Jezus malusienki (Little Jesus)
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The World of Christmas Carols | Kroke is a Polish instrumental ensemble of world music. The band's name refers to the Yiddish language name for Kraków. The band was founded in 1992 by three friends and graduates of the Academy of Music in Kraków. | 0:24:25 (Pop-up) | ||
| Lionel Benjamin |
Nwèl La Rive
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Various Artists: Noël Sou Noël, Vol. 1 | 2016 | Haitian singer and actor. | 0:28:52 (Pop-up) | |
| Milo & The Kings |
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
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Christmas in the Virgin Islands | From Trinidad and Tobago. | 0:33:22 (Pop-up) | ||
| El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico |
Alegría y Paz
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En Navidad | Gema Records | 1965 | Led by pianist and musical director Rafael Ithier, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico is one of Puerto Rico’s greatest dance bands. Decades after its inception, the 13-piece salsa group continues to inspire dancers with its horn-punctuated Latin rhythms and lush vocal harmonies. | 0:35:26 (Pop-up) |
| Joan Soriano y su banda 'Los Candé' |
El Niño del Tambor (The Little Drummer Boy)
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Single | 2020 | Joan Soriano is a Dominican bachata singer and guitarist from the Dominican Republic. His style is a blend of modern with traditional bachata. Since the 1980s, Joan's guitar and arrangements have graced many hit bachatas by other artists. | 0:38:17 (Pop-up) | |
| Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez |
Boogaloo Navideño
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Fania Christmas Essentials | Fania | Pedro Juan Rodríguez Ferrer, better known as Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez, was a salsa singer born in Barrio Cantera, Ponce, Puerto Rico. | 0:41:24 (Pop-up) | |
| New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band |
Trepak
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The Pan American Nutcracker Suite | 2022 | NYABABB was founded and is led by drummer Joe McCarthy. The band is comprised of first call Jazz and Afro-Cuban Jazz players from New York City who collectively perform with the greatest names in the business. | 0:44:45 (Pop-up) | |
| Trio Ambisi |
Di Bethlehem do Tubu
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Christmas in Toba | 0:54:12 (Pop-up) | |||
| Mbaraka Mwinshehe & Super Volcano |
Kakolele Viva Xmas
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Various Artists: Merry Christmas | Tanzanian guitarist/bandleader Mbaraka Mwinshehe was one of the spearheads of East African dance music. Having established his reputation as a member of Morogoro Jazz, between 1964 and 1973, Mwinshehe continued to make his influence felt as the leader of his own band, Super Volcano, from 1973 until his untimely death six years later. | 1:00:04 (Pop-up) | ||
| Vijana Jazz Band |
Barua Ya Christmas
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Single | Moto Moto | Vijana Jazz Orchestra is a Tanzanian muziki wa dansi band that reached its peak of popularity in the 1980s. | 1:09:03 (Pop-up) | |
| Eddy Jay, Nando Black, Elio Boom, Alvaro "El Barbaro", Ito, Gale, Albert, El Afinaito, El Oveja, Papa Rasta, Papo Man, Encanto, Yankee y Anne Swing |
Champeta Llego Navidad
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Single | All-star group performing Colombia's Afro-pop influenced Champeta music. | 1:19:35 (Pop-up) | ||
| Mini All Stars |
Noel Compas
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El Manicero | Mini Allstars were a studio-based band of Haitian musicians brought together in New York in 1980 by the producer and owner of Mini Records, Fred Paul, to play the music of Nemours Jean-Baptiste, the pioneer of Haiti’s ‘compas’ dance rhythm. | 1:23:28 (Pop-up) | ||
| Coupé Cloué |
Noel Sans Lune
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Habitude Cé Vice | Mini Records | 1985 | Jean Gesner Henry, known professionally as Coupé Cloué, was a Haitian footballer, singer, guitarist, and bandleader. He was known for defining a style of Haitian konpa music he called konpa manba. | 1:32:49 (Pop-up) |
| Zakopower |
Tryumfy Króla Niebieskiego (Triumphant King Of Heaven)
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Kolędowo (Christmas songs from Polish Tatra Mountains Gorale Highlands) | Zakopower is a Polish Goral folk music group. It is named after Zakopane, the hometown of its lead singer. Their music links folklore with the aesthetics of rock. | 1:45:38 (Pop-up) | ||
| Gronicki i Harnasie |
Dziecie biydne narodzone
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Kolędy góralskie (Christmas Carols from the Polish Tatra Mounatins) | Tercet | 1:50:14 (Pop-up) | ||
| Klezmonauts |
Joy To The World
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Oy to the World - A Klezmer Christmas | From Oregon. Building on the klezmer tradition, the Klezmonauts add influences from their own backgrounds in jazz, bluegrass, Indian, African, and classical music. | 1:54:07 (Pop-up) | ||
| Houghas Sorowonko (vocal - Pee Pee Dynamite) |
A Groovy Christmas & New Year
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Single | Academy Records, Voodoo Funk | From Ghana. | 1:56:52 (Pop-up) |
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laying low today, but so grateful for your show -- for real, the positive sounds/vibes are truly healing -- thank you,😺😺
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How do we not have a "seasonal yodel" section in the record library??
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Love the relentlessness.
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Not into Xmas @ all - but this playlist has been charming & heartwarming anyway & lovely for wakey wakies.
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Enjoying the show with my coffee...
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