Festival Christmas Top 40

This year’s top 40 Christmas tunes, as voted by listeners of Festival Christmas, to brighten your Christmas Eve.

Artist – Song – Album

1. Boys of the Lough – That Night in Bethlehem – Midwinter Night’s Dream
2. The Peasall Sisters – Hark The Herald Angels Sing – A Holiday EP From Dualtone
3. Don Peris – Christmas Time Is Here – brighter visions from afar
4. Ottmar Liebert – Shepherd’s Nite Watch – Poets & Angels
5. Steve Bell – Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The Feast
6. Robby Hecht – Best That I Do – Hudson Harding Sampler, Volume 3 — Happy Holidays
7. Anuna – Gaudete – Christmas Memories
8. Solas – The Snows Fall Away – A Winter’s Tale
9. Odetta – Somebody Talking bout Jesus – Gonna Let It Shine
10. Dan Fogelberg – The First Christmas Morning – The First Christmas Morning
11. Jesse Colin Young – What Child Is This? - Songs For Christmas
12. Donna Germano – Il Est Ne – Oasis Acoustic Volume 37
13. Don Peris – O Come All Ye Faithful – brighter visions from afar
14. Christine Lavin and the Mistletones – Dona Nobis Pacem – Runaway Christmas Tree
15. The Arrogant Worms – Santa’s Gonna Kick Your Ass – Christmas Turkey
16. Woody Phillips – Deck the Halls – A Toolbox Christmas
17. Woody Phillips – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy – A Toolbox Christmas
18. Sixpence None The Richer – Christmas For Two – The Dawn Of Grace
19. Emmylou Harris – Beutiful Star of Bethlehem – Light of the Stable – Christmas Album
20. David DeBoy – Aluminum Christmas Tree – Oasis Acoustic Volume 37
21. Brave Combo – O Christmas Tree -It’s Christmas, Man
22. Bernice Lewis – It’s About Peace – Hudson Harding Sampler Volume 1- Happy Holidays
23. Loreena McKennitt – God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Abdelli version) – A Midwinter Night’s Dream
24. Bonnie Rideout – Eric Rigler – Maggie Sansone – Al Petteway – Rock Thee O’ Child – Christ Child’s Lullaby – A Scottish Christmas 
25. Dan Crary – The Last Noel – Holiday Guitar – Christmas
26. Siucra – The Cherry Tree Carol – A Very Siucra Christmas
27. Rosie Thomas – Why Can’t It Be Christmastime All Year – A Very Rosie Christmas
28. The Crossing – Emmanuel (reprise) – The Court of a King
29. Catie Curtis – Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming – Hear the Angels Sing: Holiday Greetings From Rykodisk
30. Ruben Romero And Robert Notkoff – Jingle Bell Rhumba – Christmas In Santa Fe
31. Belton Richard – Blue Christmas – Alligator Stomp, Vol. 4: Cajun Christmas
32. Berroguetto – Nadal De Luintra – Putumayo World Christmas
33. Johnnie Allan – It’s Christmas in Louisiana – Alligator Stomp, Volume 4- Cajun Christmas
34. Cathie Ryan – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear – Narada’s Best of Celtic Christmas
35. Eric Rigler and Scarlet Rivera – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Christmas in Ireland
36. Verdier, Taylor & Prendergast – The Wassail Song / Connaughtman’s Rambles – Celtic Christmas
37. Patty Loveless – Bluegrass, White Snow – Bluegrass & White Snow
38. Mindy Smith – Away In A Manger – My Holiday
39. Loreena McKennitt – Emmanuel – A Midwinter Night’s Dream
40. Aimee Mann – Whatever Happened to Christmas – One More Drifter in the Snow