Passover Folk Songs

Here's a page with the dates of Passover.

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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