Saturday, 24 December 2022

A Christmas Carol


One of my favourite Christmas memories is of a group of atheist friends sitting by the piano late at night and singing Christmas carols in a small English town around ten years ago. Christmas Carols was also the last book I bought from a great Minsk book shop called Gogol's Dream before it closed down back in 2020. 

Which brings me to Pete Seeger's Traditional Christmas Carols album from 1967. To me, the essential Christmas album. Timeless-sounding, subtle, and impossible not to sing along to. Merry Christmas!