Following the prompts for each day of Advent, this playlist is created with hope, preparation, joy, and promise in mind. May the music help you cast down the mighty lift the lowly, and fill the hungry with good things.
Nov. 29: HOPE - “Soon & Very Soon” - El Dorado
Nov. 30: HONESTY - “People, Get Ready” - Eva Cassidy
Dec. 1: PRESENCE - “Once In Royal David’s City” - Sufjan Stevens
Dec. 2: KINDLES - “A Change Is Gonna Come” - Sam Cooke
Dec. 3: KNOWN - “Somebody to Love” - Queen
Dec. 4: AWESOME - “Lovely Day” - Bill Withers
Dec. 5: PERCEIVE - “Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming” - Sufjan Stevens
Dec. 6: PREPARE - “Prepare Ye, the Way of the Lord” - Godspell
Dec. 7: TENDERLY - “Watch Over Us” - The Lone Bellow (El Dorado version)
Dec. 8: REMEMBER - “It Don’t Have to Change” - John Legend
Dec. 9: GLORY - “Jesus, What a Wonderful Child” - John Legend
Dec. 10: REVEALED - “Gold & Green/The First Noel” - Sugarland
Dec. 11: VOICE - “Betelehemu” - Morehouse College Glee Club
Dec. 12: MIGHT - “Suo Gan” - CANTUS
Dec. 13: NEWS - “Ain’t That Good News” - Sam Cooke
Dec. 14: CARRY - “The Weight” - Aretha Franklin (w/ Duane Allman on Slide Guitar)
Dec. 15: RELEASE - “River” - Joni Mitchell
Dec. 16: COMFORT - “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy” - David Bowie/Bing Crosby
Dec. 17: PROVIDE - “In the Bleak Midwinter” - The Indigo Girls
Dec. 18: JOY - “Joy to the World” - Nat King Cole
Dec. 19: ACKNOWLEDGE - “Angels We Have Heard on High” - The Indigo Girls
Dec. 20: EXULT - “Ave Maria” - Franz Biebl peformed by Chanticleer
Dec. 21: GIVEN - “There’s Still My Joy” (The Longest Night) - The Indigo Girls
Dec. 22: BUILD - “O, Come, All Ye Faithful” - Nat King Cole
Dec. 23: MOVING - “Children, Go Where I Send Thee” - Natalie Merchant
Dec. 24: WORD - “O Magnum Mysterium” - Morten Lauridsen, performed by the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Dec. 25: FOREVER
Jan 3: EPIPHANY
ADVENT SONG OF THE DAY: Day 24 - WORD, "O Magnum Mysterium"