Celebrating Christmas with Janice Burns and Jon Doran A beautiful, traditional start to Christmas Janice Burns & Jon Doran are an award-winning Anglo-Scottish duo who came together after discovering a shared love of traditional music and songs that tell vivid stories about the nature of life and our place in the world. Their album Great Joy to the New released in 2024 is a beautiful and collection of Christmas carols and winter tunes Janice & Jons clever and uncluttered musical storytelling comes alive through tight vocal harmonies and sensitive interplay between mandolin, bouzouki, and guitar. Their arrangements have a spellbinding presence and an understated energy that transports their songs from the pages of books and manuscripts into the imagination of the listener. They play lovely strings, they have gorgeous harmony arrangements. Really well crafted, intimate, beautifully understated. Karine Polwart Janice and Jon are both delightful singers with wonderfully musical voices. Their performances of traditional folk songs have a pleasing authenticity and they make delicious harmonies. They are also both fine instrumentalists of great skill and talent. Any appearance of theirs in a folk club or on the concert platform will guarantee you an experience youll remember. Sandra Kerr