Monday, November 18, 2024

It's Christmas with Canada's David Myles

Award-winning Canadian singer and songwriter David Myles based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has a delightful Christmas album that will fit very nicely into your audio Christmas stocking. In 2014, Myles released 'It's Christmas', which helped raise money and donate food for those in need. The album features many well-known classics as well as some original songs, including the children's song 'Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo', which he turned into a children's book.

He also shows off that bilingual Eastern Canada talent with the French Christmas classic 'Les Cloches du Hameau', which dates from about 1755. Québec's Céline Dion has a choral version of it that you can waltz to, while La Famille Dion (7 of Céline's 13 siblings) sing a more straightforward version of it.

Myles is still an independent artist who enjoys cross-genre musical collaborations, such as 'So Blind', with Nova Scotia rapper Classified, which became one of the biggest-selling rap singles in the history of Canadian music in 2014.

  And if you need your banjo fix, 'It Snowed' has you covered... in snow.

1 comments:

Evan said...

O Canada! Here are some of the Canadians on my Christmas playlist:
"If Santa Don't Bring You No Funk" by Big Sugar (featuring Wide Mouth Mason)
"Kings of Orient" by Odds
"Coconut" by the Pack A.D.
"Reindeer Rant/What's the Use of Getting Sober?" by Big Rude Jake
"O Holy Night" by Ben Caplan