Sunday, December 19, 2010

Two five hour Christmas carol sessions at the markets down

And I think I can safely say I am officially over Christmas carols for this year. But I still have to work up sufficient excitement to play for our Christmas carols service at church tonight.

Since I have trouble playing the piano and singing songs at the same time, we actually go along to a service at the local Salvation Army on Christmas Eve so I can enjoy some carol singing as well. Although this year I am not playing the piano on Christmas Day so I will get to sing then too.

And as a Christian, it may be a little politically incorrect to say so, but I am also hanging out to play all my other favourite Christmas songs: The Twelve Days of Christmas, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Rudolf, Jingle Bells etc. I would also love to find the piano music for the Australian Christmas carols (Orana to Christmas Day, The Three Drovers and those ones). Even though I have been watching Ebay, this music is hard to track down...

2 comments:

Caroline said...

Hi Karen,

the Wheeler and James Australian Christmas carols make me feel ridiculously nostalgic for childhood Christmases. I think at the primary schools I went to we learnt new ones nearly every year.

I have a book "Together at Christmas" published in 1987 by Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide (I think it's still in print), that has four of them in it. It has the three drovers, but doesn't have Orana to Christmas Day. The others are "the north wind", "Sun gleams bright", and "sing Gloria".

Caroline

Karen said...

Ooh, thanks Caroline! I will definitely look that one up....