Sycamore Lane
The first installment of this year’s original holiday tunes is called Sycamore Lane. Four misfits on Sycamore Lane each get picked on in their lives, but for Christmas this year, each one receives a superhero costume, and it emboldens them to stand up to their tormentors. Homage to the late Jim Croce.
Torion Gore, vocals
Tim Kelty, Guitar
Marty Purdy, Mandolin, Patrick Fitzgerald, Bass
Jim Becker, Drums
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Saranac
The second installment of this year’s original holiday tunes is called Saranac. A woman sits out on frozen Lake Saranac in upstate New York ice fishing and waiting for her baby to come join her. They go back to the cabin, snuggle up, and dream about summer when they can return to Lake Saranac and fish from their canoe to the song of the loon.
Lucy Fitzgerald, Vocals
Patrick Fitzgerald, Guitar
Jane Halliday, Drums
Ian Mutchnick, Percussion
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24
4The third installment of this year’s original holiday tunes is called 24. A man grows up the only child of parents who had adopted him. After his parents are gone, he has no family. He submits a sample to a DNA testing service only to learn that he has 23 other relatives, and he goes to meet them at the holidays.
Keith McGill, Vocals
David Morrison, Piano
Patrick Fitzgerald, Mandocello
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Horns
The fourth installment of this year’s original holiday tunes is called Horns.
It most certainly wins this year’s prize for most bizarre fan fiction back story. It is sung by Krampus, the mythological Central European Christmas Devil. In this version, he was a woodland creature found by Santa and talked into doing a “one-time stunt” where he would scare children into being good. The stunt worked so well, that Santa continued to use him as a scapegoat from that point on. Krampus wants desperately to be welcomed into polite society as a member of the extended Christmas family, but alas, he is forever villainized by a culture of fear. Whenever he tries to get close to the holiday cheer, his horns always give him away.
Patrick Fitzgerald, Piano, Vocals
Sean McInnis, Trumpet
Jim Mayer, Trumpet
Max Pickett, Trombone