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Originally posted by Awesoreno Awesoreno wrote:

Much harder to find Chanukkah prog. Chappy Chanukkah (say that five times fast, really clears the throat)!

P.S. When I was a kid, I was perplexed by the lack of well-known Chanukkah songs, so my dad wrote Bruce Bruce the Hanukkah Moose. It started off as a simple rhyming song, and turned into a children's book, featuring a CD with narration and singing from my dad and yours truly (at 8 years old). Not prog though, more folk-singer klezmer.

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Here's a Happy Hanukkah song by the amazing Klezmatics!!  (I love klezmer music!) 




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C'mon guys everyone knows (!) the first prog Xmas album ever released was by Horslips back in 1975 called Drive The Cold Winter Away...maybe!
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Originally posted by brittneyspike brittneyspike wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

The December People released an album awhile back where they play traditional Christmas songs in the style of different prog bands.  I can't remember all of the styles, but I know that they included Yes and Kansas.


LOL. Never heard of these - haven' found any of those you're thinking about yet, but White Christmas in a White Wedding style has some party potential.

NAIZ


This album.



Robert Berry put it together. Steve Walsh and John Wetton guest vocals. A full song by Kansas even.

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And in style of Rush.
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Originally posted by Awesoreno Awesoreno wrote:

Much harder to find Chanukkah prog. Chappy Chanukkah (say that five times fast, really clears the throat)!

P.S. When I was a kid, I was perplexed by the lack of well-known Chanukkah songs, so my dad wrote Bruce Bruce the Hanukkah Moose. It started off as a simple rhyming song, and turned into a children's book, featuring a CD with narration and singing from my dad and yours truly (at 8 years old). Not prog though, more folk-singer klezmer.

Happy Chanukkah to you! Clap  

Here's a Happy Hanukkah song by the amazing Klezmatics!!  (I love klezmer music!) 



Love the muted trumpet!
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Hmm. It looks like the OP took his recipe for potatoes au gratin and left the building. Shocked
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For Christ's Sake!
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I once made a mix tape that included a lot of prog and related artists:

A Winters Tale - Jade Warrior
A Christmas Song, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow, Jack-In-The-Green, Ring Out Solstice Bells, Fires at Midnight, Another Christmas Song, Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day - Jethro Tull
One Misty Moisty Morning - Steeleye Span
A Song for All Seasons - Renaissance
Song of White - Vangelis

Yes, a lot of Tull. All of these were from the original recordings; I made this tape years before the Tull Christmas Album came out. Bruce Cockburn, John Lennon, and the Pretenders round out the tape. We could argue that most of these are less Christmas than they are Winter, but that line has been blurred long ago. As long as it matches the season, it is acceptable to me, especially since I am tired of hearing the same 15 songs over and over again.
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The December people albums are good but they are pure prog christmas albums. I'm not sure that's what the OP is looking for. 
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Hamburger Concerto, from Focus. The choir near the end is supposed to tell a passage from a traditional dutch chirstmas song...
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Hamburger Concerto, from Focus. The choir near the end is supposed to tell a passage from a traditional dutch chirstmas song...

Excellent suggestion, thank you Dellinger!  Finally, something new!!

We go through this exercise EVERY Yuletide, and it's always Greg Lake & "I Believe in Bloody Father Christmas!!"  
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Originally posted by BarryGlibb BarryGlibb wrote:

C'mon guys everyone knows (!) the first prog Xmas album ever released was by Horslips back in 1975 called Drive The Cold Winter Away...maybe!

Holy Virgin, Batman. I forgot about this gem. I will be playing it later today.

Edited by SteveG - December 16 2020 at 07:34
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Or........
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Originally posted by Mormegil Mormegil wrote:

Run With the Fox - Squire and White

I Am The Manic Whale have done a good version of this on their recent Christmas selection box release.

I also have to mention the Kate Bush album 50 Words for Snow, which is a bit proggy.
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Liked the December People stuff.. unusual for me of that hybrid/cover albums. Maybe I'll take a look.

I'm sure is NOT what you're looking for LOL  but I cannot do without mentioning this beauty:

     The Endless Engima, Pt. 2 
        by ELP.


Beacuse of its beautiful (prog & Christmas) bells at the start and its sheer overall progressiveness. It always makes me think of Christmas.

Each time I hear it I imagine something like this (not exactly, but an elegant image of red bells with a green tree on the background):







And a bit of humour as a bonus track : P




Merry Christmas btw  Beer
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Is Trans-Siberian Orchestra considered eclectic folk Christmas prog? Cool

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Just come across this.....
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This is probably the best example of this I can think of.
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