Down Came an Angel—Reflections on Vintage American Holiday Music 

We Three Kings of Orient Are (John Henry Hopkins, 1857)

Lament of the First Generation (Liz Carroll)

Candles in the Dark (Jonathan Jensen)

Down Came an Angel (Kentucky folk carol; Ritchie family version)

18th-c. traditional Scottish reels: Miss Dumbreck and Miss Stevenson’s Reel

The Cherry Tree Carol (folk carol, Kentucky version)

The Blessings of Mary (North Carolina carol)

Mary, What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby? (African-American spiritual)

I Hear(d) from Heaven Today (Port Royal Island spiritual, from Slave Songs of the US, 1867)

All Quiet along the Potomac Tonight (Civil War song, by John Hill Hewitt and Ethel Lynn Beers; 1861)

O Chanukah (Chanukah song)

I Wonder as I Wander (John Jacob Niles)

It Came upon the Midnight Clear (Edward Sears, 1849, & Richard Storrs Willis, 1850)

Tes jolis patins blancs (“Your Lovely White Skates”) (waltz by Philippe Prieur, 1985)

Go, Tell It on the Mountain (African-American spiritual)

Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow (African-American spiritual)