I've toyed around with this idea for a while, and I think it would be a really fun thing to try. If it worked out, it could turn into a new Christmas tradition. A couple of years ago during Christmas time, my mother in law Cathy and Natalie and I spent a couple of hours playing and singing Christmas songs together. Cathy and I both had the old Reader's Digest Christmas Songbook, and we just flipped through and chose our favorites and played and sung song after song. After that night, I thought that it would be really fun to do the same thing on a slightly larger scale (with more instruments and more voices). It would be fun to have instruments such as a violin, cello, piano, guitars, bass, keyboard, percussion, harmonica, mandolin, harp (wink, nudge Christine). Anyway you get the idea.
It would be a casual get together, basically a Christmas party with a few friends where at some point we do this sing along/play along musical experiment. I envision almost all acoustic instruments so the setup would be pretty minimal. Maybe just an electric bass and keyboards plugged in. We would print copies of the music so you could just show up and play. The one requirement for attending would be that you either sing or play so that there is no audience, only performers. (We will have shakers and tambourines and possibly hand clapping/snapping for non singers/non players who want to participate).
Well, that is my crazy idea. Please leave a comment if you would be interested in participating. Let me know what instrument(s) you would play (including voice). Also, I will throw out a few dates, if possible list which date would work best. Possible dates: Friday December 5th, Sunday December 7th, Saturday December 13th. If none of these work you could certainly suggest another date, I'm just trying to get the ball rolling and see what kind of interest there would be.
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Sniff, sniff.
That sounds so fun.
This sounds like SO MUCH FUN. I could play keyboards?
What a great idea!
I think we'd be into singing some good 'old Christmas songs-maybe this could be a joint venture with J&J Presents' annual Christmas party? J, J&J Presents perhaps? What do you think about that? E-mail me or hit me up on G-chat...
Any date but Dec. 13 would work (as of right now).
Oh, YES!! Dec. 13th we'd be in town!!
How about me thinking this is the best idea for a party ever. Christmas is easily my favorite time of the year, mostly due to the music. I freaking love Christmas music. Let's do it. There is a slight possibility that I get tickets to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert this year, but I don't know when those are. One might be on the 13th. Other than that, I believe our weekends are unplanned. Good idea, sir.
sounds sweet. kind of like in the movie "once" when they all get together and people just play. I call a tamborine (someone will have to let me borrow).
Dec 13 does not work for us.
that comment above is actually me, James.
James, I was totally hearing Deeds's voice as I read your comment. But then I reread it with your voice and it didn't really sound like something deeds would say.
I play the kazoo.
I think this sounds rad. I'm game for the harp as long as Blake agrees to haul it! It's funny because I've been thinking it'd be really fun for me to play background music at the Christmas party but never had the guts to speak up. Anyway, this idea sounds better because everyone will be able to interact!
I will actually play the cow bell, the triangle, the tamborine, or the recorder. But I would need to borrow all of those. -james
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