Holiday Calendar

The 2021 Holiday Calendar! Virtual & Musical!

Join us, starting December 1^st, every morning, for your dose of holiday cheer! Share your favourites with family and friends, and feel free to check back any time, these songs will stay on our website well into the new year.

Happy Holidays!

Holiday Calendar Day 24 featuring Kellylee Evans performing Silent Night

Holiday Calendar Day 23 featuring The Angelique Francis Quartet with Oh Christmas Tree

Holiday Calendar Day 22 featuring Ed Lister & Dave Williamson with We Three Kings

Holiday Calendar Day 21 featuring Noël Avec Toi Trio performing Père Noël Arrive En Motoneige

Holiday Calendar Day 20 featuring The Blind and The Beautiful performing But Santa, I Can Explain

Holiday Calendar Day 19 featuring Tarniriik performing The Poor Little Dog

Holiday Calendar Day 18 featuring Ed Lister & Dave Williamson with Kling Glöckchen Klingelingeling

Holiday Calendar Day 17 featuring Noël Avec Toi Trio performing Mele Kalikimaka

Holiday Calendar Day 16 featuring The Blind and The Beautiful performing My Christmas Tree

Holiday Calendar Day 15 with The Angelique Francis Quartet performing Grown up Christmas List

Holiday Calendar Day 14 featuring Tarniriik performing Ii, Uu, Aa

Holiday Calendar Day 13 featuring Kellylee Evans performing I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

Holiday Calendar Day 12 featuring Ed Lister & Dave Williamson with Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

Holiday Calendar Day 11 featuring Noël Avec Toi Trio performing Il Neige

Holiday Calendar Day 10 featuring The Blind and The Beautiful performing Run Rudolph Run

🎄🧑‍🎄 The holidays are starting! 🕎🕯️

Ottawa’s best music talent will perform a song a day from Dec. 1 – 24. A #HolidayCalendar for all who love music and want to get into the holiday mood!

The international performing, multi-talented Ottawa musicians Angelique Francis and Kiran Francis (currently finishing up Angelique’s second studio album “Long River” to be released early 2022) partner with the German Embassy, bringing together talented artists for this year’s musical Advent Calendar.

“We are very delighted to work with the German Embassy again this year, to help ring in the Holiday season with the 2021 Holiday Calendar. Listeners are certainly in for a treat! We hope that everyone who watches the video calendar will find joy in the many colourful traditions and musical celebrations we share in our culturally rich community.”
Angelique Francis

The programming will include a wide variety of genres and a cast of multilingual performers who are as culturally diverse as the country they call home. The performances will include everything from German Christmas songs to Inuktitut throat singers, showcasing the wide range of music available in the Ottawa region, in multiple languages.

Follow along all month!

“We are thrilled to partner with the Francis family and their friends again. In Germany, the 24 days leading up to Christmas – the Advent – are all about building the anticipation to Christmas. In the darkest season of the year, a little door opens every day on our advent calendars to bring us a bit of light and joy. We can do with that this year!”
Sabine Sparwasser, German Ambassador