This week on Earth Eclectic Radio Hour, host Laura Dedelow presents “Wintry Mix,” a musical celebration of winter’s profound ecological significance. The journey begins with Emaline Delapaix’s meditation on hibernation, followed by Peter Mayer’s gentle “Snowfall” and Loreena McKennitt’s ethereal “Snow.” Jessica Radcliffe offers a spoken-word and musical fusion that bridges Celtic traditions with winter imagery, while Carson Blake contemplates Earth’s cooling cycles. Little Clay Bears’ “The Blizzard” rounds out the first set with haunting vocals that echo through winter’s landscape. After a brief pause, we return with Claire Lynch’s crystalline voice bringing “Snowbird” to life through bluegrass harmonies, before Handshake Amnesia introduces us to the mysterious “Spirit of the Snow.” The temperature continues to drop as Cody M. Brooks takes us “Under the Quiet Sky” and Valley of the Moon describes “how the cold wind blows.” SnoGlow’s ambient track allows us to hear as “Winter Speaks,” while jazz legend Nina Simone defies those “Chilly Winds” with her incomparable voice. As Adam Steele contemplates “The Year” in its entirety and Alan Dickson’s “Cold Wind” carries us home, listeners are invited to embrace winter not merely as absence—of warmth, of growth, of light—but as a sacred presence essential to Earth’s rhythms and our own inner renewal.

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