Thank You!
for being part of the Christmas Story. Your submission has been received.
Please read this page carefully. You will receive an email from us with 36 hours which will assign you to a specific group. We are so far at over 500 people. So to make things a bit easier for everyone I am splitting up the songs between the group. There will be 4 groups for the Ladies and 2 groups for the Men. After each song you will see a key, for the Ladies (W1, W2, W3, W4) and for the Men (M1, M2).
1 December Rose (W1, W2, W3, W4, M1, M2)
Verse 3 – All sing 2 part
Verse 4 – All sing SATB
2 In the Bleak Midwinter (W1, M1)
Verse 4 – All sing SAB
3 Still the Night (Silent Night) (W2, M2)
Verse 2 – All sing Ooo SAB
Verse 3 – All sing Words SAB
4 Don Oíche Úd I Mbeithil (In Bethlehem That Evening) (W3, M1)
Verse 3 – All sing Melody (English Text)
Verse 4 – All sing 2 Part (English Text) (Women have the melody, Men have the harmony)
5 Away in a Manger (W4, M2)
Verse 3 – All sing SATB
6 The Wexford Carol (W1, M1)
Verse 4 – All sing SATB (With Thankful Heart)
7 What Child Is This (W2, M2)
Verse 3 – All sing V3 & Last 2 refrains SA
8 Starry Night (W3, M1)
Verse 4 – All sing SAB (On this Night)
9 O Holy Night (W4, M2)
Verse 1 to the end – All sing SAB as in the PDF
10 Lullaby for Baby Jesus (Sleep Quietly My Jesus) (No singing on this one)
11 O Come All Ye Faithful (W1, W2, W3, W4, M1, M2)
Refrains, Verse 2, Carol segments – All sing SAB
12 Comfort My People (W1, W2, W3, W4, M1, M2)
Verse 3 – All sing in 2 part. Women on Melody, Men on Harmony (Be light in the darkness..)
13 I Wonder As I Wander (W1, W2, W3, W4, M1, M2)
Verse 3 – All sing in SAB Ooos only
14 Every Nation (W1, W2, W3, W4, M1, M2)
ALL Refrains in SATB
You can downloaded the learning and recording tracks please do so here – it includes the PDFs and all these instruction PDFs as well.
One last thing – when I had the idea to do this project I didn’t know how big it would become. So I have setup a GoFund me page to raise fund to pay the musicians and Video editors that I have and will have to engage. If you can please spread the word and encourage people to donate to the project it woful be great, Donations can be made here
Of course spread the word about the project in general www.iancallanan.com/christmas
Ian