Passover Folk Songs

The Hebrew date for the start of Passover is Nisan 15. Passover begins at sunset on the previous day on the civil calendar.

Thanks to Sue Kessell and Paul Stamler's emails for many of these songs.

[played 2008]
Arlo Guthrie\ Go Down Moses\ Arlo Guthrie\ Warner Bros

[played in 2005]
Kate McDonnell\ Go Down Moses\ Where the Mangoes Are\ Appleseed
Shelley Posen\ Four More Kashes\ Manna\ Well Done
The Carter Family\ Little Moses\ My Clinch Mountain Home 1928-1929\ Rounder
Artisan\ Time My People Were Free\ Rocking at the End of Time\ Bedspring

[recent suggestions]
Arlo Guthrie\ Go Down Moses
Kim and Reggie Harris & Rabbi Jonathan Kligler's "Let My People Go! A
Jewish & African American Celebration of Freedom," on Appleseed Recordings.
Dave Nachmanoff "Let's Eat" (A Certain Distance)
(similar song on the Waybacks live album)

[older suggestions]
Go Down Moses (Paul Robeson, Kate McDonnell, others)
Mount Zion (Paul Robeson)
SHELLEY POSEN- Four More Kashes
        Manna (Well Done)
SHELLEY POSEN- And We Sang Ha Lakhma Anya
        Manna (Well Done).
ARLO GUTHRIE- Go Down Moses
        Arlo Guthrie (Rising Son)
HANS THEESSINK- Moses
        Bridges (Blue Groove)
JESSE WINCHESTER- Pharaoh's Army
        Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)
Bernice Lewis     Moses and Me     Isle of Spirit        (Blue Bhikku - CD)
Beth Gelman & Tom Sivak     Passover Medley  "The Jewish Holidays"    OHP
Bob Franke       Roll Away the Waters       Brief Histories         Flying Fish
Dana & Karen Kletter     Flight Into Egypt         Dear Enemy     Hannibal
Elizabeth Pauly/  Canaan's Land  Take Me Back To Old Montana/  Scott Crichton
Jesse Winchester     Pharaoh's Army         Learn to Love It
John Davis    Moses   Southern Journey Vol. 12: Georgia Sea Islands (Rounder)
June Tabor       Pharaoh     A Quiet Eye             (Green Linnet)
Kim & Reggie Harris      Go Down Moses          Steal Away        (Appleseed)
Kim & Reggie Harris     Walkin' in the Wilderness    Rock of Ages (Appleseed)
Kinky Friedman---The Shield Of Abraham
Klezmorim               Moldovanke              METROPOLIS/Flying Fish
Laura Wetzler  Children of Abraham  Songwriter's Notebook 
Linda Hirschhorn & Vocolot  Sham'a (Hear & Rejoice)    "Behold!"
Matzoh Man! \ The Yiddish People \ Rhino Bros Circus Royale \ Rhino
New England Conservatory Chorus & Orchestra     He Sent a Thick Darkness   A
Odetta          Moses, Moses         One Grain of Sand      (Vanguard)
Paul Robeson    Go Down Moses    Carnegie Hall Concert Vol 2    (Vanguard)
Paul Robeson    Go Down Moses    Peace Arch Concerts     Folk Era
Peter, Paul & Mary     Dodi Li     Flowers And Stones        (Reprise Records)
Peter, Paul & Mary   Go Tell It on the Mountain    In the Wind   Warner Bros
Peter, Paul and Mary     Man Come Into Egypt     Moving    (Warner )
Ralph Stanley    My Lord Will Send A Moses      CHILD OF THE KING       Rebel
Ron Eliran \ Real Story of Exodus \ What Do You Do When Young White & Jewish
Simple Gifts         Next Year in Jerusalem         Other Places          self
Sweethearts of the Rodeo   I'll Pass Over Thee   Beautiful Lies    Sugar Hill
Taste of Passover     (Rounder)
The Klezmatics & Chava Alberstein    Di Krenitse (The Well)
The Weavers     Tzena Tzena             WASN'T THAT A TIME/Vanguard

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