Here’s a carol requested by “Someone”–WordPress keeps playing with anonymity. It’d be funny if you won the contest–whoever you are!
But here it is: The Birthday of a King, performed by the students at Fountainview Academy.
Tag: Christmas 2023
‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’
*Sigh* Hardly anybody here this morning, and no hymn requests: our carol contest seems to be withering on the vine.
Keep trying. How about this, then? God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, done the old-fashioned way by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
‘Good Christian Men Rejoice’
We’ve got no entries into our Christmas Carol Contest this morning, so I’m on my own to choose a hymn.
Good Christian Men Rejoice, performed by the Mennonite Hour Singers…
Lord , I pray this Christmas for a spirit of reconciliation: we, your servants, are in need of it.
By Request, ‘O Come Let Us Adore Him’
We have a carol entry from Erlene: O Come Let Us Adore Him, by Jordan Smith. It’s sort of a modern upbeat spinoff of O Come All Ye Faithful. I’m glad someone asked for a Christmas song today.
The Sussex Carol
*Sigh* No carol contest entries this morning; the spirit seems to have gone out of it. I wish Phoebe would come back to us. But what’s there to do but to keep working?
Here, one of my favorites: The Sussex Carol, by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
By Request, ‘Angels We Have Heard on High’
Things have not been as they should be here, this week; but let’s see if we can get the Christmas Carol Contest back on track.
Requested by Erlene: Angels We Have Heard on High, sung by the Libera Boys Choir.
By Request, ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’
Requested by Thewhiterabbit: Go Tell It on the Mountain, performed–on a mountain, naturally, by students at Fountainview Academy. And I wish I could see how they got the piano up there.
By Request, ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’
Requested by Ina: O Little Town of Bethlehem, sung by Nat King Cole.
I hope we get more entries in our Christmas Carol Contest. Lately it’s not been an easy time for this blog. Please pray for our fellowship.
‘O Come, O Come Emmanuel’
Joshua Aaron sings O Come, O Come Emmanuel at the City of David in Jerusalem. Traditional plus modern instruments give the ancient carol a unique sound.
(No carol contest entries this morning.)
‘Personent Hodie’ (‘On This Day Earth Shall Ring’)
Let’s try to get back into a Christmas spirit.
Personent Hodie, sung by the Ely Cathedral Choir–our 7th-grade chorus sang it in English, On The Day Earth Shall Ring: an ancient hymn, still going strong.