Track Listing

1. Joyeux Noël - New York Twoubadou
2. Here We Come A-Wassailing - Steve Schuch
3. Venid Fieles Todos (Adeste Fidelis) - Liuba Maria Hevia
4. St. Nicholas - Sheryl Cormier & Cajun Sounds
5. Deck the Halls - Cuba L.A.
6. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Banks Soundtech Steel Orchestra
7. White Christmas - Los Reyes
8. We Three Kings - Michael Doucet
9. What Child Is This - Dan Crary
10. Aguinaldo Jibaro - Pepe Castillo
11. Douce Nuit (Silent Night) - Kali
12. Paz en la Tierra (Joy the the World) - Ramón Veloz

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2916 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .18 pounds

Amazon.com
Putumayo's first holiday collection, A Putumayo World Christmas, reminded us that the vast majority of people who celebrate the Nativity are more likely to have an incipient sunburn nipping at their noses than Jack Frost. Over the centuries, warm-weather cultures have developed a variety of lovely and highly individual holiday traditions. But musicians from Central and South America and the Caribbean also draw upon our shared European and post-colonial heritage, thus gracing familiar carols and seasonal pop songs with an enchanting tropical spin. Cha-chas, rumbas, and steel bands rock the house from Advent to El Dio de los Reyes (Festival of the Three Wise Men, or Epiphany) in countries where religious devotion often includes a cooking rhythm section and dancing goes to church. The set list includes a quartet of charming North American tracks, but the mood is predominantly south-of-the-border: festive, serene, exalted, danceable, and very beautiful. --Christina Roden

Customer Reviews

Watch out! If you already have Putumayo World Christmas...
If you already have Putumayo World Christmas, four of the 12 songs on this album are duplicates from that album. I don't understand why they released another Christmas album while the other one was still available if they weren't going to put all new songs on it.

That said, this is a great album. It's a ton of fun to hear songs from around the world about Christmas and a really good variety of songs from different areas.

Great CD!
This is a really fun CD! Really good music
and fun.

Duplication and too much traditionals
If you love world music, you're going to love Putomayo. If you don't know world music and want to learn, this label is an excellent start. They provide you with just a taste of a variety of songs.

Christmas Around the World takes you from Haiti to France and back again. You get:

Haiti--1 song
USA--4 songs
Cuba--3 songs
Barbados--1 song
France--1 song
Martinique--1 song

It's a nice flavoring of all kinds of music and sounds.

If you have Putomayo's World Christmas, you have 1/3 of this CD. If you are looking for different Christmas music, this is mostly world covers of traditional Christmas music.

Rebecca Kyle, December 2008