I hope this finds you well and full into the holiday spirit.
I am currently prepping for a Christmas Day show. Forty-four Christmas tunes I thought I knew. But just because you know one version, doesn’t mean you know another. And just like Jim Henson made the ghost of Jacob Marley a duet, so did Bieber and Usher with “The Christmas Song.” Great work speaks through the ages but rarely does it go on to have a full-blooded, emotional life in the hands of so many different interpreters. So as I learn Bieber’s version, I will wonder if Dickens could have ever figured on the muppets, and Mel Tormé on a 17-year old Canadian pop star. What a beautiful thing.
So, Christmas not in the usual way. But a good one, nonetheless. I will be with my wife and my friends, playing music in the mountains of B.C. And as I was graciously reminded by family the other day, the ones that disrupt the pattern have a way of standing out in memory.
Come the New Year I’ll be playing in Seattle at the Sea Monster Lounge. January 3rd at 8pm. Might I suggest that concert tickets make for a great Christmas gift…
At the top of this letter is my holiday send off to you from 2022’s Station 234, A Christmas Special. A live performance of Stevie Wonder’s “One Little Christmas Tree.”
Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful New Year.
love,
David
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