Music Monday

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 Happy Hanukkah!

Hanukkah is a moveable feast.

This year Hanukkah began on December 7.  Next year the first night of Hanukkah will be December 25.  In 2013 the first night of Hanukkah was November 28, coinciding with Thanksgiving.  (Remember my menurkey?)

The vagaries of the lunar calendar …

Hanukkah is called The Festival of Light.  We bring light and hope into our lives during the darkest times,

So let’s play some Hanukkah music.

We’ll start with Six13’s latest.


Now for something traditional by artists you know.

  

  

Let’s have some fun with this.

  

 

If you want more humor follow the link for all four versions of Adam Sandler’ s classic.

Something in Ladino to celebrate my daughters’ Sephardic heritage

  


A little bit of social  justice in the mix

  

Some a capella from the Maccabeats and Six13

  


  

  


  

And in these dark days, we will rise up.






Happy Hanukkah!

Comments

  1. John HoltonDecember 10, 2023 at 5:56 PM

    Happy Hanukkah! I'm not Jewish, but I like donuts and potato pancakes...

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  2. csuhpat1December 11, 2023 at 11:39 AM

    Happy Hanukkah and great songs.

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  3. willowdot21December 11, 2023 at 12:14 PM

    Happy Hanukkah be blessed 💜

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  4. willowdot21December 11, 2023 at 12:14 PM

    Happy Hanukkah be blessed 💜

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  5. XmasDollyDecember 11, 2023 at 3:39 PM

    Happy Hanukkah to you and yours! I think I like your last song the best it's so festive!!! Have a great day and a Christmasy week... We're decorating today... hehehe lots work! :)

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  6. Cathy KennedyDecember 12, 2023 at 10:35 AM

    Happy Holidays, Robin! "Elton Johnukah" is a fun song pick. May the season of love, fill your soul and lite your home! xo

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  7. AlanaDecember 12, 2023 at 5:52 PM

    Happy Hanukkah to you. My favorite here was Ocho Kandelikas and maybe I can thank all the Latin music I heard on the subway growing up (our family was carless) for loving. This may have been the first time I ever heard Ladino and it surprised me because I learned in college that the language was nearly extinct. In second place was Six13 and Elton Johnukah. They did some great work here.

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    1. songbird's crazy worldDecember 13, 2023 at 12:01 AM

      Drew’s grandparents were Sephardim from Greece and Turkey. Drew's mother and grandparents all spoke Ladino. But it’s a dying language.

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  8. BirgitDecember 12, 2023 at 6:36 PM

    I love these but I'd love to hear some traditional songs which, I bet, are beautiful. There are so many Jewish people In Hollywood. All the major studios were owned and operated by Jewish people who would deny they were Jewish! Louis B. Mayor went to church and celebrated Christmas. They all came from impoverished areas in Russia, Romania etc.. and were persecuted so I think this is why they kept quiet

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