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Top 16 Holiday Albums by Female Artists

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

For the holidays, why not enjoy your favorite women musicians on these single- and multi-artist albums?

1. Ultimate Power of a Diva's Christmas

A Diva's Christmas
From Joan Baez to Pat Benatar, from Emmylou Harris to Carnie Wilson, from Donna Lewis to Everything But the Girl, a 2-disc collection of Christmas standards.
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2. Women of Christmas in the Garden of Lilith

Christmas in the Garden of Lilith
The same as volume 1 of the set above, artists on this disc include Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Karla Bonoff, Christine McVie, Victoria Williams, Jill Sobule, Nicolette Larson, Juliana Hatfield, Donna Lewis, Linda Eber and Deborah Gibson. (NOT from the Lilith Fair tours.)
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3. Mistletoe and Wine: A Seasonal Collection

A Mediaeval Baebes take on Christmas, Yule, and Winter. Two songs are new; the others are from previous albums, not necessarily on a winter holiday theme.
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4. Cool Yule

Bette Midler's 2006 holiday album, in a jazzy/pop style. Includes Christmas songs, more on the secular side except for "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," plus some for winter and New Years Eve, and "From a Distance" for some holiday hope.
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5. Come Darkness Come Light: Songs of Christmas

Mary Chapin Carpenter sings a few traditional Christmas songs -- and some new ones she's written just for this album.
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6. And Winter Came ...

Enya's haunting New Age/Celtic impressionist style is applied to some traditional and some original material.
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7. American Chanukah: Songs of Chanukah and Peace

Robin Spielberg, on solo piano, plays traditional, contemporary and original pieces commemorating Hanukkah and peace, for the troubled Middle East and for the world.
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8. At the Turning of the Year

Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen present a Winter Solstice themed collection.
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9. A Midwinter Night's Dream

by Loreena McKennitt. This Celtic-oriented holiday album includes a few remastered songs from her 1995 album, and new songs as well. This edition is for gift-giving, including a DVD documentary of a McKennitt tour.
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10. The Runaway Christmas Tree

Christine Lavin and the Mistletones in an album designed to keep one from taking the season too seriously. Her offbeat humor comes through in "A Christmas/ Kwanzaa/ Solstice/ Chanukah/ Ramadan/ Boxing Day Song" and "Tacobel Canon" among others.
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