Holiday Music – Fusion Nepal

When I was in elementary school, my chorus teacher, riding that multicultural music wave, introduced some Hanukkah songs into our holiday concert line-up that were extremely — how do I say it? — bad.

I can’t blame her. The only Hanukkah song most of the gentile (and even many of the Jewish) community knew back then and know now is “Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel.” So my teacher took whatever complimentary Hanukkah sheet music she got in the mail and made do with those somber minor chords.

It didn’t have to be that way. There’s plenty of … better Hanukkah music out there. You just need to know where to look (this post). Read more…

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When it comes to holiday music, there’s always that one song you and your family can’t help but gravitate towards, no matter how weird or terrible it may be.

Songs like “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” and “Dominick the Donkey” get stuck in the holiday music rotation, and there’s just no getting rid of them. They’re strange, but you love them anyway — and that’s totally cool.

We put together a list of the 15 weirdest holiday songs that our families are oddly obsessed with, so that you, too may enjoy them this season.

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