'Tis The Season

[Prof Marvel]

Greetings My Good Netizens -

wherever to put this?  Audio? Historical? ...

Alrighty, Off-Topic it is!

As we approach the Xmas season, I would like to offer my tiny compilation of appropriate
Venusian  ( damn you autocorrect!) Victorian Seasonal Songs. 
And British
and Irish & Celtic
And some older ones.
Much Older.

and Wassailing songs. I love me some good Wassailing Songs!
Lets Us Go out in the cold, and blackmail our neighbors into giving us some Wassail!
And then go to the orchard and Sing to the Apple Trees!
And beat on the apple trees with sticks.
really.

17 songs from "A Pre-Victorian Christmas"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4xDuoWC5Is

Celtic Christmas 3- The Wexford Carol & 12 songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8tpK0wm_DI&list=PLRZh5CpeR-ggHIoyspluzVjxAwwbjH2oX

Celtic Harp Christmas Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DChDhKFHVO4

Irish Christmas Songs - Celtic Harp Music & Traditional Gaelic Christmas Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1WvHReBno

Victorian Instrumental Christmas mix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmOqf297ILA&list=PLIhgtuwTq5V1F_kcx_XSAtvTav6mbBX88

The Watersons - Apple Tree Wassail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh7JbVKwJjk

Irish - Here We Come A Wassailing - David Archuleta, Meav, Mark Wills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnvMQMLGSlU

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC5Ixae8ezo&list=PL4AF2F7CE9235AD43&index=2

Holly & Ivy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcAjCm8L9Ws&list=PL4AF2F7CE9235AD43&index=3

Shepherds Rejoice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7xiAQ8zZs4&index=4&list=PL4AF2F7CE9235AD43

Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band - Noel (Live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DteHI_YF2Y4&list=PL4AF2F7CE9235AD43&index=10

yhs
prof (harps and wassail) marvel

[Miranda.T]

Thak you for sharing those; some of the older carols are lovely (I've always had a particular soft spot for The Holly and the Ivy). In connection to your other thread, various living history museums and historic houses over here have Wassailing events - and they always sell out quickly.

Yours,
Miranda.

[James Harrison]

Might I offer a few seasonal-themed amusing Edwardian short stories to go with the music?

Down Pens
Bertie's Christmas Eve
Reginald on Christmas Presents
Reginal's Christmas Revel

The Making of a Christmas Story

[J. Wilhelm]

Greetings My Good Netizens -

wherever to put this?  Audio? Historical? ...

Alrighty, Off-Topic it is!

As we approach the Xmas season, I would like to offer my tiny compilation of appropriate
Venusian  ( damn you autocorrect!) Victorian Seasonal Songs. 
And British
and Irish & Celtic
And some older ones.
Much Older.

and Wassailing songs. *snip*

And here I was hoping to learn what all the fuzz about Venusian Christmas Carols was about...