Advent Caroling Madness VII

It’s time for one of my favorite Christmas traditions, Advent Caroling Madness! Part of how I love getting in the Christmas spirit is working with all of you to find the best version of a particular Christmas song. There’s lots of YELLING IN ALL CAPS and intimations of inappropriate meddling in the voting, but so far we’ve survived without any accusations of Russian interference…

The original brainstorm was 5 years ago. It works like this: I choose a Christmas song, and you send me your favorite versions of that song (please try to find it on YouTube, so I can link it so all can listen). Then I set up a bracket like March Madness, and we all vote. Winners advance, and we vote again. Rinse and repeat until we get down to one best version of each song. You can post versions (with links) as comments here, or on my Facebook page, or send by email.

This year, we will return to the original inspiration! The first song will be “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.” Two reasons for this: it’s my favorite Adventy-Christmas song, and that first year, I didn’t let people vote for it. And three, there could be new versions out there. So send them my way by December 3 at 5:00 pm PST, and I will re-seed all the entries and create a bracket.

The second song will be “O Holy Night.” I selected this last year, but had to bale out. Those entries can be sent now and are due by December 17 at 5:00 pm PST.

Check out past winners!

2013:

2014:

2015:

2016:

2017:

2018:

Share with your friends! Get the word out! Rock the Vote!

Here’s where you can see all the Advent Caroling Madness posts.