Album Notes

Celebrate the season with songs meant for merry multicultural mirth! This year, I have five new songs to celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas from around the world.

Travel to Spain, with the beautiful and haunting Ocho Candelikas sung in Ladino from the Sephartic Jewish tradition. The songs tells about all the wonderful things that will happen during “beautiful Hanukkah”.

Enjoy “Feliz Navidad” with wonderful Latin percussion. ! Written by Puerto-Rican singer/songwriter José Feliciano, this awesome song is loved all around the world! Play the dreydl song or dreydl game and win some great treats. Or hear a very old Christmas carol from Germany in both English and German.

Completing this mini-album is A Rockin’ Jingle Bells – a song that was originally written for Thanksgiving by a minister named James Lord Pierpont. Written in the United States, the song was premiered at a Thanksgiving Day service and was so popular that it was performed again at Christmastime and that is how it became a favorite song for this time of year.

I hope you enjoy this new music and I wish you blessings and happiness at this very special time of year!

DARIA