Day 23
Up until now, Christmas preparations, the new album, CD sales etc kept us working at full speed. It’s been fun, exciting and rewarding but now that Christmas is just a few days away we’ll try to take a little breather and enjoy the calmer side of the holidays. We’ll see whether we succeed but we plan on not picking up our phones that much and making the most out of the time we get to spend with our family.
Family in a larger sense also includes our guitars 🙂 Time to give some of them some much needed TLC, do a bit of re-stringing and play around on them for the sheer fun of it.
Christmas has always been a time of music for us. Every year we’d gather around the tree, sing songs and play guitar.
Let’s get them ready!
Does music play a big part in your Christmas ceremony? Do you normally sing around the tree?
Hugs, M&L xx
Your music will be a big part of my Christmas. My daughter’s family always sings Christmas carols and we will join them tomorrow night.
It’s been raining here (6 to 8″) just last night. But, that hasn’t slowed anyone down. Supposed to be fair tomorrow! Looking forward to tomorrow!
Have fun! Stay Groovy! Merry Christmas!!
We weren’t much of a singing family, but we do play music while we decorate the tree, etc. And, about 20 years ago a number of church choirs in the county all came together for a Christmas Eve service. Lots of carols, of course, but they finished with Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus”. It was inspiring…
Happy (or Merry) Christmas Eve-Eve to Team MLT! Thanks for another great year! Relax and enjoy your holiday, you deserve some “me” time! Hope Santa brings everyone lots of cheer!
We always sing on the 24th. When I was little I had an air piano and Played with it all Christmas. Now, that night, I play acoustic guitar and sing carols… My family are not any musicians, only I play a little guitar…. but that day we all sing and eat equally…. in great quantities! Hahahaha. We like to party.
Sounds exactly like my family. I`m the only one who plays, we all eat to much, and celebrate on the 24th, but i think all european countries does that, at least as far as i know
In Denmark dancing around the tree, singing christmas is a tradition. I usually accompany with the guitar
Music for my family, was singing Christmas Carols at the drop of a hat and usually playing them on Christmas Day. Sadly that now seems to have gotten in the way. Except, for me personally I have been playing YOUR. Album “Christmas” non stop when I’m in the car, and play selections on my phone. Its the only Christmas MUSIC I am playing this year!?❤???
“Hey Mona, you didn’t tighten this string enough.” Love Lampi Bampi?
Kick back and relax, you deserve it.
Thanks for making the holidays so groovy for all of us.
Hugs to you both! Papa Rudi and Michaela too!!
Do you ever polish the frets?. Apart from a string change I reckon it’s the next best thing to give a guitar for Christmas.
In school my music teacher said I couldn’t hit a note with a hammer ? So I don’t sing much, but people tend to enjoy my guitar playing. It is so relaxing to play the guitar for fun, just noodling around with no particular purpose. Best stress reliever ever.
Music does play apart in my life. But not at Christmas my dad plays the piano a bit during Christmas Day I would be strumming my guitar in the evening
Love the Christmas videos but I don,t know where to go for just comments. Sorry about the. Have you ever thought about doing Jefferson Starships White Rabbit? I would love to hear you two singing it plus you playing it on your guitars.
Hi David. they were actually called Jefferson Airplane in the sixties. ”White Rabbit” was a song about drugs – “Go ask Alice, when she’s ten foot tall”!
My family sings to Xmas Songs on CD, or on TV… Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer by the Irish Rovers has become a Xmas Day tradition in our family for eons ever since my oldest or second oldest brother bought the old 45 of the song, ( I now own that 45…lol)….we may sing… My niece when she in her teens (just turned 21 on the 20th…A month away to the day from my own Bday?), for a few Xmases pulled out her acoustic guitar and played some Xmas and non Xmas stuff and sang while she played guitar…. But when I was a kid, fond memories of whenever it was our turn to spend Xmas Day out at my aunt and uncle’s farm out in the country about an hour away (my late Dad’s older sister), and my aunt is her church ‘s organis/pianist so she had both an organ (double layer keyboarded one then she later upgraded to a fancier 2-3 layered keyboard that had all the bells and whistles in sound effects… She still has both in her condo now- she had divorced my uncle yrs ago, moved back into one of the childhood homes she lived in, beside our house… he remarried and unfortunately died in car wreck) Anyways, she played all kinds of Xmas Classics on the piano/organ and we sang… Musical Xmas Tuneful Memories ??????
We also had at home when I was younger a plethora of Xmas albums from my Mom’s beloved Blue Xmas Elvis album, The Tijuana Brass Xmas Album from the 1960s with Rainbow colored border on front cover with Mexican guy playing trumpet, some other album with Kid on Cover missing front teeth, Chippers album(related possibly to Alvin & Chipmunks), Gene Autry’s Xmas Album… That’s all the Xmas albums and that old Irish Rovers 45 we had… When I was a teen, I got 1984 Band Aid album, 45 of Eurythmics Winter Wonderland…. ?????
Jacki at her Aunt’s farmhouse whenever it was our family ‘s turn to spend Xmas Day out at farm… They come to our place for New Years, then next year we switch it, did that for years….
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What a gorgeous smile Jacki!
I can just imagine the joy you brought your Aunt when you came visiting. 🙂 Beautiful pics!
Christmas music was always a big part of Christmas time for us. We didn’t sing around the tree, but we usually had the traditional Christmas songs playing. I remember we had a Julie Andrews Christmas album as well as a Little Drummer Boy album that had all the great Christmas songs. It was these 2 records that were always played for many decades at Christmas. My sister still has them at my parents old place. We usually had a real tree and decorated it a week or so before Christmas and that always was a very special moment when we could really start feeling the Christmas magic. It was funny we kept the tree until February sometimes,? which I know was a little silly, but no one was in a big hurry to get rid of it that brought so much cheer into the house through December. It was usually the brown pine needles that started to make a mess in the living room and my mom would make me get rid of it.
BTW, Lampi Bampi reminds me of my childhood black cat Spooky who use to get into everything we tried to do.?
My family has never been very “singy”, but when I was a kid we had Christmas music playing on the record player throughout December. My favorite album included a very jazzy version of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” by Lou Rawls, plus this fascinating rendition of “Jingle Bells” featuring a countermelody sung in French:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGcPcc9EuuI
Singing has always been a big part of Christmas with my family, thats why it’s my favorite time of the year. we would sing while listening to Christmas music on the radio or while playing an album and every Christmas Eve singing at church. a lot of good memories
Well done Mona and Lisa. You deserve a break. Hopefully all members are holding off asking questions until the new year. Christmas has never been the same experience for me that it is for the Wagner family. As I’m away from home pet minding at the moment and as unlike all you northern hemispherers, my Christmas is a hot one, I plan buying a kilo of cooked prawns and a couple of dozen of Sydney Rock oysters to enjoy with the cold beers and wine I have in the fridge. I’ll try singing to my dog and five cats, but I don’t think they’ll appreciate it. I hope you get some snow for Christmas!