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Yep I ran the statements from the command line, Try this since your running it as a shell script:

dir1="dir1"
dir2="dir2"
echo "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>" >xml_file.xml
echo...

This is one way to do it:

dir1="dir1"
dir2="dir2"
echo "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>" >xml_file.xml
echo "<Karaoke>" >>xml_file.xml
for x in `ls -1 ${dir1}/* ${dir2}/*`
do
...

Lateral thought idea.
1) Create a cron which creates a flag file at 00:01 on the first day of every month.
2) Run your cron every Wednesday but have a wrapper to exit if the flag file does not...

If you specify both Day of month and Day of week then the command will run when either are true (i.e. the 1st to 7th, and any Wednesday).