To Warm the Winter Hearth

For Windborne growing up, putting on the “holiday music” didn’t mean listening to Silver Bells or Frosty the Snowman, but albums and singing parties filled with wassails, songs of the winter solstice, old English carols, and other music you’d never hear at the mall. The focus of the holiday season was connecting to community and traditionand music came from a variety of midwinter traditions to celebrate Solstice, Yule, and the turning of the year. Windborne introduces audiences to traditions they have never heard, and takes familiar songs and makes them new and fresh. This long-awaited winter album features audience favorites and introduces some of our favorite unusual finds, like a medley of 16th century carols in the Occitan language or Lithuanian wassails. The album is packaged inside a book featuring stunning full color artwork, with lush watercolor illustrations, lyrics, and essays about the songs and the traditions they come from.