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Sufjan Stevens (www.sufjan.com)Handmade Music for Christmas
Had enough of the souped-up Xmas songs bombarding you in the stores? Host David Garland offers an hour of Christmas music on an intimate scale. For the last few years songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens has been using his banjo, piano, guitar, oboes, recorders, his gentle singing voice, and his unusual sensibility to record some traditional and original Christmas music. He's given these recordings to family and friends, and this year they can be heard on Spinning On Air. The familiar Christmas song "I Wonder as I Wander" was written by the wonderful and eccentric folklorist John Jacob Niles, and that song and others will be heard from his 1940 album "Early American Folksongs and Carols." And John Fahey applies his American Primitive Guitar to carols for some rough-hewn beauty.
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All About WNYC's Music Host
David Garland, host of WNYC's Evening Music and Spinning on Air, is also a composer and a performer. He has performed his music extensively in the U.S. and Europe and several of his recordings and downloads are available on his Web site, DavidGarland.com.
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