Finally, something I’ve always dreamed of – my very first christmas special! Come along with me as we celebrate holiday cheer with my family and friends. grab some cookies and hot cocoa and settle in for some of my favourite songs off my new album ‘songs for christmas’
– Christina Perri
Now we are in for a real treat as we near the peak of the Christmas festive season. Frankly, there is no other artist I feel so anticipatory towards writing about. The music of Christina Perri has featured here nearly twice as much as any other female music artist (17 appearances until now). Australian country music artist Kasey Chambers is second on that list (9 appearances). As I was writing a post about Kasey’s track Bluebird on Thursday, I realised that another song titled Bluebird had already been posted here, by guess whom?…Christina Perri. Immediately as I drew the link in that post I received a notification on my mobile – about the launch of today’s featured presentation – California Christmas. Now if that isn’t serendipitous I don’t know what is.
Perri’s persona in this XMAS presentation is the most unguarded, fulfilled, animated, yet intimate I have seen from her. She welcomes us into her gorgeous home and then presents us with 4 Christmas tracks; the first ‘Christmas Dream‘ is an original written by her. The special includes playful ribbing by her husband Paul Costabile; who you may remember appeared in the last ‘merry-go-round’ scene of Perri’s legendary Evergone track with their eldest daughter Carmella Stanley. Yesterday’s XMAS launch also includes Carmella and her 1 year – old sister Pixie Rose; the latter was the topic of my last Perri post – Pixie Dust. Once again Christina Perri’s guitarist and back-up singer Johnny Hanson is there to solidify her music sanctuary along with her other ‘favourite person’ Emily Frost on keys and backup.
Christmas has indeed come early y’all! I hope you enjoy and oh….Merry Christmas! 🎅🎁🎄☃️
Reference:
1. Christina Perri – Wikipedia
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Her voice is fantastic Matt! Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Perri nailed those first 2 – ‘Christmas Dream’ and the ‘Marshmallow World’. The former is impressive to say the least since it’s an original composition (by her and crew) and sounds to me like a keeper for future festive seasons. I thought her rendition of ‘Silent Night’ wasn’t so good, but no one’s perfect. Thanks for your well wishes Max. Cheers.
The same to you Matt!
Lovely video Matthew, although why are they all wearing black?! Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year!
I don’t know why they all wore black. I didn’t even notice it. I suppose if they all went another colour besides ‘black’ against the mainly white background it may have looked gimmicky. I don’t know. May be they are ‘rebel’ devil worshippers who happened to love XMAS.
Thanks Bruce. You and Eric have a lovely Christmas and New Year too!
Cool video Matt!
Yes, I like it. I wish you a very Merry XMAS Tom.
Merry Christmas!