First off, I can finally say this now that Q Christian Fellowship has made the announcement: me and my podcast (Reclaiming the Garden) co-host Anna Dawahare are going to be doing a LIVE SHOW at Q Christian Fellowship Conference in DC this January (2023)!!!!!! Here is the link for details (we’ll be interviewing Jess Grace Garcia): https://www.qcfconf.org/podcaststage. This is something we've been working toward and it feels so good to see this dream become reality.
Now, on to today’s topic: Christmas music! It’s a tradition of mine to start listening to Christmas music on Thanksgiving Day, specifically after watching the parade. Before that I do not voluntarily listen to Christmas music (can’t help it if it plays in a store). If you wanna go all out Christmas on Nov. 1st, you do you, but for me Christmas/Advent (because Advent is the time leading up to Christmas) music is special because I only listen to it between Thanksgiving and December 31st (yeah I know Christmas doesn’t end til Jan 6th).
I have a Christmas playlist on Spotify that I used to delete at the end of the year and then recover it on Thanksgiving, but in 2020 Spotify changed it so that deleted playlists only exist for a month and then are gone forever, so the new one I created that year awkwardly sits at the bottom of my library playlists. Here it is:
It starts off, of course, with the greatest Christmas movie of all time, A Muppet Christmas Carol. Then it goes to the somber banger Christmas Lights by Coldplay, and then some gorgeous Audrey Assad. You’ll find multiple versions of Advent hymns because I can’t choose my fave arrangement (Joy to the World, O Come Emmanuel, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful…). And yes there are two songs from Hillsong France, I know Hillsong is Really Bad but there aren’t that many French Christmas songs on Spotify. And of course, there is no rendition of Mary Did You Know here because it’s hella annoying (to the music director at my hometown church who might be reading this: I know the guy who usually sings it at services does a lovely job, but I still don’t really like the lyrics). Oh, and of course The Porter’s Gate’s Advent album, released last year, is so great.
Let’s have a big fun sharing time!!! What are your fave Christmas songs? Feel free to drop playlists in the comments!
BIG NEWS and sharing fave Christmas/Advent music!
BIG NEWS and sharing fave Christmas/Advent music!
BIG NEWS and sharing fave Christmas/Advent music!
First off, I can finally say this now that Q Christian Fellowship has made the announcement: me and my podcast (Reclaiming the Garden) co-host Anna Dawahare are going to be doing a LIVE SHOW at Q Christian Fellowship Conference in DC this January (2023)!!!!!! Here is the link for details (we’ll be interviewing Jess Grace Garcia): https://www.qcfconf.org/podcaststage. This is something we've been working toward and it feels so good to see this dream become reality.
Now, on to today’s topic: Christmas music! It’s a tradition of mine to start listening to Christmas music on Thanksgiving Day, specifically after watching the parade. Before that I do not voluntarily listen to Christmas music (can’t help it if it plays in a store). If you wanna go all out Christmas on Nov. 1st, you do you, but for me Christmas/Advent (because Advent is the time leading up to Christmas) music is special because I only listen to it between Thanksgiving and December 31st (yeah I know Christmas doesn’t end til Jan 6th).
I have a Christmas playlist on Spotify that I used to delete at the end of the year and then recover it on Thanksgiving, but in 2020 Spotify changed it so that deleted playlists only exist for a month and then are gone forever, so the new one I created that year awkwardly sits at the bottom of my library playlists. Here it is:
It starts off, of course, with the greatest Christmas movie of all time, A Muppet Christmas Carol. Then it goes to the somber banger Christmas Lights by Coldplay, and then some gorgeous Audrey Assad. You’ll find multiple versions of Advent hymns because I can’t choose my fave arrangement (Joy to the World, O Come Emmanuel, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful…). And yes there are two songs from Hillsong France, I know Hillsong is Really Bad but there aren’t that many French Christmas songs on Spotify. And of course, there is no rendition of Mary Did You Know here because it’s hella annoying (to the music director at my hometown church who might be reading this: I know the guy who usually sings it at services does a lovely job, but I still don’t really like the lyrics). Oh, and of course The Porter’s Gate’s Advent album, released last year, is so great.
Let’s have a big fun sharing time!!! What are your fave Christmas songs? Feel free to drop playlists in the comments!
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