This collection is a benefit for The Boston Institute for Arts Therapy, credited to Boston singer-songwriter Bleu but he's assisted by an array of Boston artists like Dicky Barrett of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Kay Hanley of Letters To Cleo, Mary Lou Lord and many others. It kicks off, improbably, with a pair of modern-day remixes of "Mele Kalikimaka" and "Jingle Bells" featuring Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, all done with modern techniques to put together different performances. The former might not sound unusual to untrained ears, but "Jingle Bells" includes heavy electronic percussion and the Bing vocal tweaked to make him squeeze out notes he may have never considered in real life. The "Boston All Star 12 Days" is pretty much as it sounds, a rocked-out version of the carol with the various participants swapping vocals. "Snow Day," an original, is an instant classic about every child's second-favorite winter phenomenon after Christmas. An electronica take on "Carol of the Bells" is clever, and Ramona Silver singing "Silent Night" is a fairly original take on that evergreen classic. More originals: "Everybody Knows It's Christmas" is a swing number, "I Want My Christmas Back" is a blues, "Snowfall in the City" a jazzy ballad, and album closer "Bing Bang Holidang" is your basic movie soundtrack climax tune, complete with gang-sung choruses. It's short, but it makes its point well. UPDATE: Edited to note that Bleu is an individual act, not a band. Click through to Amazon for copies from 3rd parties; if that doesn't work, Bleu had copies in his online store last time I checked.
A Bing Bang Holidang, Bleu (Maid) 
This collection is a benefit for The Boston Institute for Arts Therapy, credited to Boston singer-songwriter Bleu but he's assisted by an array of Boston artists like Dicky Barrett of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Kay Hanley of Letters To Cleo, Mary Lou Lord and many others. It kicks off, improbably, with a pair of modern-day remixes of "Mele Kalikimaka" and "Jingle Bells" featuring Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, all done with modern techniques to put together different performances. The former might not sound unusual to untrained ears, but "Jingle Bells" includes heavy electronic percussion and the Bing vocal tweaked to make him squeeze out notes he may have never considered in real life. The "Boston All Star 12 Days" is pretty much as it sounds, a rocked-out version of the carol with the various participants swapping vocals. "Snow Day," an original, is an instant classic about every child's second-favorite winter phenomenon after Christmas. An electronica take on "Carol of the Bells" is clever, and Ramona Silver singing "Silent Night" is a fairly original take on that evergreen classic. More originals: "Everybody Knows It's Christmas" is a swing number, "I Want My Christmas Back" is a blues, "Snowfall in the City" a jazzy ballad, and album closer "Bing Bang Holidang" is your basic movie soundtrack climax tune, complete with gang-sung choruses. It's short, but it makes its point well. UPDATE: Edited to note that Bleu is an individual act, not a band. Click through to Amazon for copies from 3rd parties; if that doesn't work, Bleu had copies in his online store last time I checked.
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