Recorded in the heart of New Orleans at the Marigny Studios with local jazz musicians. A bittersweet, funny, swinging new holiday standard.
Singing and strolling through the Live Oaks in Treme
Recorded in New Orleans with local musicians, Christmas Dream celebrates the unique Christmas traditions of New Orleans. A funny, swinging new holiday standard that builds to a classic NoLa Street Parade. It is influenced by New Orleans’ jazz and New Orleans songwriters, alongside Christmas standards by Sinatra and Bing Crosby, and also by that bittersweet holiday classic by The Pogues, ‘A Fairytale of New York’.
If you’re stuck in the office, dreaming of The Big Easy, this is a song for your Christmas celebrations.
Recorded 2025 at the Marigny Studios
Harry Mayronne, piano and arrangement
George ‘Beau’ Bishop Jr, drums and percussion
Stoo Odom, bass
Doyle Cooper, trumpet
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christmas dream of new orleans
I hope you enjoy it and it makes you smile and helps launch your Holiday Season. It’s the first song off my upcoming album, ‘Shattered and Shining’. And for someone who mostly sings dark, intense songs about ‘the meaning of it all’, this song is one crazy, crazy outlier: it’s an upbeat, swinging, kinda’ traditional Christmas song called Christmas Dream of New Orleans.
After 15 years in New Orleans, constantly amazed at the special beauty of this city, I wanted to write a fun, holiday song that captured the strange and wonderful differences between the Crescent City and just about everywhere else in America. Recorded in New Orleans with local jazz musicians, Christmas Dream in New Orleans celebrates the unique Christmas traditions of New Orleans. It’s a funny, bittersweet, swinging new holiday standard with storytelling that comes from the city, and the song builds to a traditional New Orleans Street Party. It is influenced by swinging Christmas favorites by Sinatra and Crosby, by New Orleans’ jazz styles and NoLa songwriters, and by that dark classic by The Pogues, ‘A Fairytale of New York’. I wanted to write a song for all those poor souls stuck in the office, dealing with snow and ice, racing to last minute shopping at the Mall, and who are dreaming of the warm, good life in The Big Easy.