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S2: E68 Sunday Sip: Christmas Music I Love

Season 2
Episode 68
Sunday Sip: Christmas Music I Love


Hello friends and welcome to Sunday Sip on Afternoon Ti.  Each Sunday for the remainder of the year I plan to share a single idea, thought, or meaningful take-away in hopes that you’ll be encouraged and inspired as you prepare to enter the next new week of teaching. 

I’m always on the lookout for new Christmas music.  The classics are great and I love all - or most- of the variations of these songs for sure.  Finding some new pieces that capture the season is always nice. I’m sharing ten Christmas albums that you should listen in to this season:
1- Nichole Nordeman’s album Fragile - love the opening track called Fragile/What Child is This… I love the way she integrates Sting with a classic carol and a little interlude of Mozart’s Requiem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCpzNM6gaY
2- Phil Wickham’s album Christmas - favorite song “This Year for Christmas”: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-XSYe_TuXZX1iIBVbUG7sg
3- Leona Lewis album Christmas with Love - love the song “One More Sleep” - not a new album, but I hadn’t heard it until it played on Apple Music and loved the fun upbeat piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXIQK8lcOOc
4- Mormon Tabernacle Choir 2018 A Merry Little Christmas with Sutton Foster and Hugh Bonneville- https://www.thetabernaclechoir.org/shop/products/merry-little-christmas-2018.html
5- Meredith Andrews album Receive Our King 2017 - Come Thou Long Expected Jesus:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOxJFN-9_vs&list=PLwX-OCZKppSnEq-n_gXTJ0dPZINjnxCGp
6- Lindsey Stirling - Warmer in the Winter - Sugar Plum Fairy, : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RkSy6ElNIY&list=OLAK5uy_lR2fPbF3TPY69oKi5-3fj0vifCaYrptiE
7- Lady Antebellum- On This Winter’s Night album- country trio- title track is a beautiful lilting piece.  I also love their version of Silent Night and A Holly Jolly Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUn3dJteVIA&list=PLv21FeqMG-dbQGGLmCpf2Ljqe2uS-llxU
8- Dave Koz- Smooth jazz (three albums:  2012 album Dave Koz and Friends: The 25th of December featuring Stevie Wonder, India Arie and several other artists), 2001 A Smooth Jazz Christmas, and his new album out this year called Gifts of the Season.  Perfect for during a christmas dinner party!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xrMEeKoBVg&list=PLGc32ST3A-ixzsemLRj1jnPV_ISjYu_ql
9- Seabird- 2010 album Over the Hills and Everywhere - American alternative band made up of four men from Kentucky. I love it!  Go Tell it on the mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVo6rLU0u8&list=OLAK5uy_nMJad-gjg5rUXyx0Rb4NZHKcFrFsDZwZs

10- Ingrid Michaelson 2018 Songs for the Season- Looks Like a Cold Cold Winter… jazzy vocals takes you back to the style of the 40s and 50s.  It was recorded with a 35 piece symphony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl_FZqWv6XY&list=OLAK5uy_lpgS3dNmgfLwg7YnRg2EFIHLgNKu41v80
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