Lughnasadh; Medicine Songs

The program for July 25, 2020, was a double header, featuring songs in advance of the Celtic holiday Lammas/Lughnasadh and also medicine music from North and South America.

First hour:

Artist Song Title Album (Label)
Corn Crake   (online)
Deaf Shepherd The Corncraik Synergy (Greentrax)
Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies The Crake in the Morning Tenterhooks (Green Linnet)
The Pogues Lullaby of London If I Should Fall from Grace with God (Island)
New Set
Ossian Corn Rigs Seal Song (Iona)
Traffic John Barleycorn (Must Die) John Barleycorn Must Die (Island)
Damh the Bard Lughnasadh Herne’s Apprentice (Caer Bryn Music)
New Set
The Full English Brigg Fair The Full English (Topic)
Anúna August Essential Anúna (Koch)
Garnet Rogers Girl from the Hiring Fair Firefly (Snow Goose Songs)
New Set
Joy Harjo For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth on Its Human Feet (online)
Joy Harjo Grace Native Joy for Real (Mekko Productions)
Rupa and the April Fishes Stolen Land Growing Upward (Electric Gumbo Radio Music)
New Set
His Holiness the Dalai Lama One of My Favorite Prayers Inner World (Gaden Phodrang Foundation)

Second hour:

Artist Song Title Album (Label)
Johnsmith The Medicine Ginkgo (Blue Pine Music)
Rising Appalachia Medicine Wider Circles (Rising Appalachia)
Nicolas Losada Rojas, Jesús Hidalgo, and Carlos Ochoa Om Namah Shivaaya (online)
New Set
Libana The Earth, the Air, the Fire, the Water A Circle Is Cast (Spinning)
Chenoa Egawa Lummi Morning Song Spirit of Salishan (Swan Clan Productions)
Joy Harjo & Poetic Justice Fear Poem Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century (Silver Wave)
Ulali Mahk Jchi Mahk Jchi (Corn, Beans & Squash Music)
New Set
Minük Gente Mariposa Aurora (s/p)
Jesús Hidalgo Canto Manta Maloka Live (Pachamama Project Foundation)
Grupo Putumayo Katsata Encuentro (Grupo Putumayo)
New Set
Nicolas Losada Rojas Ha Llegado la Medicina Ha Llegado la Medicina (Nicolas Losada Rojas)
Curawaka Sagrada Familia Call of the Wild (s/p)
Alonso del Río Montado en Mi Nube Madre Serpiente (s/p)