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‘Winter Songs’ new album by Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning in Peaceful Radio Show 1519

8 December 2022 Artists

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Winter Songs is a new retrospective compilation from the acclaimed Contemporary Celtic duo, Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning. This holiday release features music from their popular Celtic Christmas albums along with seven live tracks recorded in concerts with violinist, Wendy Goodwin.

Johnson and Dunning were well known in the Contemporary Celtic music genre having released the trilogy, Songs From Albion (1992 – 94), The Bard and the Warrior (1997), Byzantium (2000), Patrick (2003), King Raven (2008) and Eirlandia (2018) which have all been tied into the Celtic Fantasy stories by best-selling author, Stephen R. Lawhead.

Their music has been included on contemporary instrumental compilations released by Windham Hill (Celtic Christmas, Winter Solstice) and Hearts of Space (Celtic Twilight), and on soundtracks for documentary and feature films, including Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York.

As mentioned above, they’ve released a string of popular Celtic Christmas CDs including A Quiet Knowing Christmas (2001), Stars in the Morning East (2005) and Under the Wonder Sky (2010) along with three beautiful Celtic chamber group releases with violinist, Wendy Goodwin including Winterfold (2013), If I Do Not Remember…(2016) and Kohelet (2020)

Track Listing

  1. Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella 2:36

  1. Greensleeves 3:43

  1. Down in Yon Forest 5:23

  1. Sing, We Now of Christmas 5:05

  1. Come,Thou Long Expected Jesus 2:39

  1. One Last Flower 5:04

  2. Sussex Carol 3:11

  1. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 4:02

  1. No Sandman, No Santa 4:20

  1. Morning Has Broken 2:55

11. Down The Chimney 3:58

12. Christ Child Lullaby 3:33

  1. The Waits Song 3:16

  1. As With Gladness, Men of Old 4:45

  2. Strolling Through Star Streets 6:47

  1. We Follow a Star 5:00

  2. Auld Lang Syne 5:10

18. Greensleeves (Live) 3:20

19. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Live) 3:29

20. The Waits Song / Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella (Live) 4:09

21. Down In Yon Forest (Live) 4:01

22. Down The Chimney (Live) 3:48

23. Winterfold / Under The Wonder Sky (Live) 5:15

24. A Christmas Childhood (Live) 2:36

Brian Dunning: Flutes, whistles, accordion, bodhran & pan pipes

Jeff Johnson: Keys & percussion

John Fitzpatrick: Violin (1, 3, 4, 7, 12, 17)
Wendy Goodwin: Violin (2, 5, 6, 8, 14, 15, 18 – 23) Tim Ellis: Guitars & tipel
Phil Baker: Bass
Jami Sieber: Cello (3, 12)
Máire Breatnach: Violin & viola (9, 13)
Gwen Franz: Viola (13)
Greg Williams: Percussion (1, 7, 11, 12, 17)
Mike Snyder: Percussion (5, 6, 14, 15)
Roger Hadley: Percussion (11, 16)
Derri Daugherty: Guitar (11)

 Produced, engineered & mixed by Jeff Johnson Live tracks recorded by Travis Cibolski Mastered by Golden Mastering, Ventura, CA

 ℗ © 2022 Ark Records, Inc. / Sola Scriptura Songs

Winter Songs can be purchased on Amazon, iTunes, and Bandcamp and can be heard on all streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora.

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