Can you provide some music for our Christmas Fayre?
Never one to turn down an opportunity to play, the Vicar considered the proposition:
- Christmas,
- half-an-hour,
- tunes in the background while stall-holders sold their wares and children made their way to Santa’s grotto.
Yes, why not…
And so the boisterous “It’s Christmas!” rang out from the Vicar’s microphone, along with other well-known Christmas pop-tunes. A 30 second warning was given to anyone playing Whamageddon, but nobody ran for the door, and the melancholic lyrics of “Last Christmas” filled the room.
Providing background music to such an event meant scaling down the usual band, so the Vicar (vocals and acoustic guitar) was joined by just David Goodman (keys) and Paul Goodman (cajon rather than drums) but this “unplugged” combination made a fitting sound for the context.
There was a bit of Walking in a Winter Wonderland, some Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree and the band were sure to say (with Shakin’ Stevens), “Merry Christmas, Everyone.” Half an hour soon passed, and the short set came to a close with a song not perhaps normally associated with Christmas: one-hit wonder, Joan Osborne’s “One of us.” But just maybe it’s more seasonal than it appears; maybe there’s a question worth pondering this Christmas time… “What if God were one of us?”
What if…