One More Song!

Sian Machado playing ' Jesus, Jesus, rest your head ' 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 12 - December 12, 2025 : “ Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head ” is a gentle Appalachian folk carol  with roots deep in the oral traditions of rural Kentucky. Like many American folk hymns, its exact origin is unknown, but its earliest documented collection comes from John Jacob Niles , a pioneering folklorist and composer who traveled through the App

Rafael Almeida (Violin) | Samuel Dsouza (Piano) playing “ When Christ Was Born of Mary Free ” 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 10 - December 10, 2025 : “ When Christ Was Born of Mary Free ” is not a mainstream carol, and is one that is still relatively unknown to general audiences. I myself stumbled upon it during this Project. Let’s step back into the 15th century  with the timeless Medieval English carol  which celebrates the

Lael Viegas playing ' Ave Maria ' (Music: Franz Schubert ) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 8 - December 8, 2025 : Schubert’s “ Ave Maria ” wasn’t originally a setting of the Catholic prayer. It was composed in 1825 as “ Ellens dritter Gesang” (Ellen’s Third Song) , part of a seven-song cycle based on Sir Walter Scott’s 1810 poem The Lady of the Lake . The original German lyrics were a translation by Adam Storck , and the song