The Harmonica Club plays for The Festival of Trees this Sunday Nov 20th. We've been puttin off practicing the tunes, and so today was our only review before going public this Sunday. In may be rough, but we will be OK,
And by request from the gang, we threw in "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree". That's our first new Christmas tune in 5 years. And we'll do it after only one rehersal. We now have a total of 5 tunes.
Our band doesn't have any Christmas tunes as a band. I can play several (roughly) on my own, although I get lost sometimes on how many times to do the verses. We really should put together a couple arrangements. We just did our first experiment with vocal harmony a couple weeks ago. It might be a good time to branch out into some holiday music.
I've also written a couple Christmas songs- one years ago when I was still a teenager, a sort of generic sappy thing, and another that I wrote because one day I decided I was going to write the most depressing Christmas song of all time, just sort of because I was in a funk. I think I might have succeeded. :) er, :(
My favorite Christmas song was a version of Carol of the Bells combined with We Three Kings as a choir piece. The two melodies work beautifully together. I can't find that version, but here is a pretty piano version.
I can play the basics of both melodies alone, but I don't think I could hold the part against other harps on the other parts, even if I could find someone up here to play harp with.
