Joy To The World is a festive, nondenominational holiday album\nwith music from around the globe. “There are 14 songs on Joy to the\nWorld,” says Thomas Lauderdale, “including well-known traditional\nholiday songs like Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”…sung by China\nForbes in English and by the incredible Saori Yuki… the Barbra\nStreisand of Japan… in Japanese. With the Pacific Youth Choir and\nthe handbell choir Bells of the Cascades, we recorded “Shchedryk,”\nknown in English-speaking countries as “Carol of the Bells,” with\nthe original Ukrainian text which tells of a lark flying into the\nhouse at the start of a new year, thus bringing good fortune. We\nrecorded a Hebrew prayer “Elohai N’tzor” with Ida Rae Cahana and\nAri Shapiro and Patricia Costa Kim. (Ida Rae Cahana was for many\nyears the canter at Central Synagogue in New York City and now\nlives in Portland… Ari Shapiro is the NPR White House\ncorrespondent… and accordionist Patricia Costa Kim was just named\ndirector of education at Experience Music Project in Seattle, but\nis also known by millions on YouTube as the keyboardist bandleader\nof Sonseed and their Christian ska song “Jesus is a friend of\nmine”). There’s a Chinese New Year song from 1946, a Felainspired\nversion of “We Three kings,” a song in Ladino (the intersection of\nSpanish and Hebrew), “Silent Night” in the original German, as well\nas a verse in Arabic and another in English. The album ends with a\nsamba parade of “Auld Lang Syne” with choruses in English, Arabic\nand French over the incredible percussion of the Lions of\nBatucada.” Lauderdale notes, “I love the holidays and all the music\nthat goes with it. We strove to make an inclusive and\nnon-denominational album that could be played anywhere in the\nworld.”

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Released in 2010 Heinz Records

\n\n1. White Christmas\n2. White Christmas (part II)
\nfeauring Saori Yuki\n3. Shchedryk (Ukrainian Bell Carol)\n4. Santa Baby\n5. Elohai, N’tzor\n6. Little Drummer Boy\n7. Congratulations – A Happy New Year Song\n8. Do You Hear What I Hear?\n9. La Vergine Degli Angeli\n10. We Three Kings\n11. A Snowglobe Christmas\n12. Ocho Kandelikas (Eight Little Candles)\n13. Silent Night\n14. Auld Lang Syne\n\n\n