To enter into Summer Solstice Week together, I wanted to share a new playlist: “The Dear Sun is Setting: Midsummer Playlist 2026” is an exploration of European folk songs and music for this ritual-laden holiday of fire, dew, and magic.

Here’s a new winter playlist with you, full of some of my long-time cherished favorites! Here you'll find old English Wassailing songs, strange apocryphal Christmas stories, shape note hymns…