Christmas songs

[BassGirl1122]

does your band do any Christmas songs at your gigs? just curious. I was practicing last night a couple to sing, or hope they let me sing, with the band at the club I occasionally jam and sing with. They, being a country cover band, do songs like Christmas in Dixie and Blue Christmas.
What do you do, if your band tosses in holiday songs?

 

[skinnypete]

Try this song, there's a banjo part

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[CBtheBK]

I do grind covers of Christmas songs. It's full of lols

 

[BLDavis]

"Frosty The Snoman" is always a crowd pleaser and usually gets some good sing-along action from the audience.

 

[Nic.]

My jazz group has a christmas gig coming; about half our setlist is doing common christmas songs (e.g. White Christmas, Jingle Bells, Greensleeves, etc.etc.) in swing or bossa.

I don't know much about country, but can't you just take normal christmas songs and play them in a country-ish way? I mean, rock bands, metal bands, pop bands all do it...

 

[lousybassplayer]

I think in Christmas carol garb, "Greensleeves" is called something else.

 

[ko stradivarius]

I keep trying to get the guys to cover Father Christmas by the Kinks.
No luck so far.

 

[SeaBassSteve]

for rock you have
Darkness - Christmas Time (Dont Let the Bell's End)

 

[cavemusic]

We're learning a few for an upcoming concert, including my favourite Christmas carol of all time: Invalid Link Removed.

 

[TolerancEJ]

We used to do a punk version of O Christmas Tree. It always got the crowd up.

 

[nutdog]

 

[tramp]

Please Come Home for Christmas

 

[saxman_singcan]

We have done Frosty the Snowman with a twist - minor key and klezmer (and that during a rock gig). We have also done Oh Holy Night because it has a beatiful melody.

 

[pharmakon]

This is my new favorite xmas song (Kinda NSFW)

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[neurotictim]

I've gotta learn a dozen or so Christmas songs on the EUB I should be receiving today... It's a "girlfriend's family" gig, so to speak. One of the family friends plays the sax (quite well, in fact) and after sitting in with him at Thanksgiving, we decided to put on a full show on Christmas Eve...

So I've got Band-in-a-Box, and the songs I'm supposed to learn in the next two weeks or so, and exactly 0 time with a DB of any sort.



Woodshedding, anyone?

 

[thesilence]

We usually play a few renditions of Christmas songs one cover we do is 12 Days of Christmas by Relient K

 

[jmattbassplaya]

I've always wanted to do Christmas covers in a band, but never have. Although my friend and I did some cool arrangements a few years back. Maybe we'll do something this year

 

[TheFantod]

Pro Christmas - Fairytale of New York by the Pogues
Anti-Christmas - **** Christmas by Fear

 

[HeadyVan Halen]

Only 2 Christmas songs should ever be played.

'Christmas Time is Here' (Charlie Brown)

'Christmas is the time of Year' (Ray Charles)

All others are highly, highly annoying.

 

[duff beer]

This is one of the few Christmas songs I like: