LIVING ROOM CONCERTS FOR CHRISTMAS
WITH
MOYA BRENNAN STEPHEN BENNETT   ERIK WOLLO
 PETER JANSON

Sonic Seasonings is a special two-hour radio program of live performances that orchestrate a winter landscape. Each year, we visit musicians' living rooms around the country. We move around the furniture, turn off the fridge and pull out the phones as musicians play seasonal sounds, live and intimate.  

For each performance, host John Diliberto pulls up a chair with the musicians, drawing out revealing tales and Christmas memories to enhance the intimate concert setting. This year’s Sonic Seasonings takes us through a winter landscape drawn from Norwegian fiords and mountains, Irish dells and North Eastern mountainsides. It's not just carols, but original music evoking the time stopping silences and chilled landscapes of the season.
Snowflake

Sunday, December 23 and Monday December 24
(and other dates, check your local listings)

Station list

 Moya Brennan
Moya Brennan


Moya Brennan, the singer from Ireland's Clannad, graces us with an intimate concert for voice and Celtic harp. Her songs evoke the winter season and include music from her CD An Irish Christmas.

An Irish Christmas

 Erik Wollo
Erik Wollo

Norway is the mythic land of Christmas and a time when sunlight is barely an apparition. From this twilight realm, Erik Wollo constructs winter landscapes using looping guitar melodies and synthesizer textures.

Elevations
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Stephen Bennett
Stephen Bennett

Stephen Bennett is a monster of finger-style guitar, but he also is a master of the harp guitar, a guitar with 6 additional bass strings plucked like a harp. Stephen brings us an acoustic Christmas evocation from Virginia.

Christmas album

 Peter Janson
Peter Janson
Snow is falling outside Peter Janson's New England window when he plays a living room concert for Christmas on finger-style acoustic guitar.
Winter Gifts

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Be sure to tune in for the other Echoes holiday programs!

Winter Solstice
Warm Music for the
Longest Night of the Year
Friday, December 21

We orchestrate a winter landscape in sound, carrying you through the longest day of the year. No carols or Christmas songs, but a glistening expanse of sonic designs that take you to the heart of an astronomical event that has inspired myths and celebrations for millennia.
Monday, December 10
Sunday, December 16
Favorite new music from 2007, as voted by the listeners.

There's still time to vote! Cast your ballot for your 3 favorite new CDs and you'll be entered in our contest to win all 25 of the 2007 Listeners' Choice CDs or our brand-new CD Resonance: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 13. Vote now!
Listeners' Choice
Essential Echoes

Monday, December 17
Sunday, December 23
The listeners had their choice, now the Echoes
staff makes theirs as we survey a year that
included global fusions, electronica breakthroughs, and minimalist birthdays . We sort it out before we move forward into 2008.
Celebrate the Day with
a Different Kind of Christmas Music
Tuesday, December 25

We orchestrate a winter landscape in sound, carrying you through the longest day of the year. No carols or Christmas songs, but a glistening expanse of sonic designs that take you to the heart of an astronomical event that has inspired myths and celebrations for millennia.
An Echoes Christmas
An Echoes New Year's Eve Ambient Chillout
Monday, December 31

Echoes kicks back for a chilled New Year’s Eve, forming a seamless path into the new year, with music that dances in your head. John Diliberto matches beats and mixes atmospheres, riding the pulse of some of the newest ambient and lounge music, creating the ultimate New Year's Eve chill-out room.

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