If you are looking for some hip Christmas music try Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs, Various Artists – go listen to Winter Song by Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson first thing.  It is tender and exquisite.  The tune reminds me of waves with its ebb and flow rhythm - which immediately connects you to shifting emotions…”My voice a beacon in the night…my words will be your light…to carry you to me…Is love alive?…I’ll be your harvester of light…and send it all tonight…so we can start again…”  Trust me, go listen.  Unbelievably romantic and haunting…and haven’t we all tried to be beacons in the night, hoping to carry you to me?

 Other memorable songs on the CD – The Christmas Song, Frosty the Snowman, a lovely Mistletoe, Sleigh Ride, a playful All My Bells Are Ringing, and the sexy Maybe Next Year (X-mas Song) – who doesn’t love a bad girl?  Maybe next year I’ll be good…

 Skip Katy Perry’s White Christmas and bullet-to-my-temple Blue Christmas…Horrible, please ladies, go back to your real genres.   Happy listening!