Seasonal Music with an Irish Flavor.

[CBHagman]

Whatever holidays you celebrate (or don't) during the months of December and January, post a favorite piece of seasonal music performed by someone identifiably Irish.

Here's a piece that never fails to cheer me up: "The Boar's Head Carol" from The Bells of Dublin by the Chieftains.

[CaliforniaHiker]

1. Good King Wenceslas by The Irish Rovers

Looks like they had fun making this video

[CBHagman]

2. Wonderful.

I've always liked that carol, and the group approached it here with a very definite spirit of fun.

Thanks for putting that up!

[leftwingbuffalowing]

3. I Concur

Bells of Dublin is easily my favorite Christmas album, I was about to recommend it when I just saw the thread title.

[gopiscrap]

4. welcome to DU

[CBHagman]

5. "The Wexford Carol."

Any number of people have sung and played it, and it appears on The Bells of Dublin, too. But here's an arrangement I hadn't heard: