Find a bunch of carol singers and see if they will let you join, there must be soem that just sing on the street. Failing that Salvation Army etc do carol singing things that are participation, I know because they used to come and do one at my old office.
Get some friends together, find a convenient spot in town and sing. :) Um, I'm sort of assuming there isn't a law against doing this... I'm pretty sure that if you're collecting for charity it's okay though. Especially if you can get official collecting-buckets from the charity in question. Or did you mean properly carol-singing outside people's doors and getting invited in for mince pies and sherry? I'm not sure this happens outside books any more. (And inside a book it's too dark to read the music ... no, hang on.)
Carol singing still happens outside peoples doors, yes. It least, i've done it, a few years back. The plan was a group of us friends go together with songsheets (you don't expect us to know all the words by memorey do you?? ) and then we went around the houses of everyone else we could think of, and sang outside very loudly until they noticed, and opened the door. Finding it was friends, they *had* to give us mince pies and things. Yay!
Hm, I think it's a bit different if you only sing for friends. To be honest I think I'd feel like I was imposing on friends a bit expecting them to give me mince pies just for singing a few carols. I mean, if they'd wanted to give me mince pies, they could have just invited me round for mince pies! Mind you I'd feel like it was a bit rude begging at the doors of random strangers too. Maybe I'm just not cut out to be that kind of carol-singer...
Absolutely it happens - I used to do it every year on the Isle of Wight, complete with scarves, lanterns and occasional harmony[1]. The idea was that most people just gave us money (it being a charity thing) and the last person of the evening showered us with mince pies and mulled apple juice instead :)
[1] And once an unwanted accordion player who refused to go away even after tactful hints that he and the recorder the singers were getting their notes from were not *quite* in tune.
Anyway, there's these German prisoners of war in Britain, and it's getting towards Christmas, so they decide to plan a daring escape. Their prison is absolutely inescapeable, but by pretending they think they're Christmas trees, they get themselves moved to the psychiatric unit of the local hospital.
From here, they try to run away, but they're shot (hurrah). A funeral service is held for them on Christmas Eve, and combined with the village carol service. Unfortunately the choir have all been injured in the escape bid, leaving only the British soldiers, who strike up a rousing verse of 'God Rest Ye Jerry Mental Men'.
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Date: Thursday, 5 December 2002 06:10 am (UTC)Robert
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Date: Thursday, 5 December 2002 06:14 am (UTC)Not wanting to sound like scrooge too much
Date: Thursday, 5 December 2002 06:19 am (UTC)Beyond that, just don't sing any near me :)
I don't like carols. But Lucys are fine :)
carol carol gaily
Date: Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:16 am (UTC)Re: carol carol gaily
Date: Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:28 am (UTC)The plan was a group of us friends go together with songsheets (you don't expect us to know all the words by memorey do you?? ) and then we went around the houses of everyone else we could think of, and sang outside very loudly until they noticed, and opened the door. Finding it was friends, they *had* to give us mince pies and things. Yay!
Re: carol carol gaily
Date: Thursday, 5 December 2002 07:40 am (UTC)Re: carol carol gaily
Date: Thursday, 5 December 2002 08:00 am (UTC)Re: carol carol gaily
Date: Thursday, 5 December 2002 08:24 am (UTC)[1] And once an unwanted accordion player who refused to go away even after tactful hints that he and the recorder the singers were getting their notes from were not *quite* in tune.
You want a church, you do.
Date: Friday, 6 December 2002 04:00 pm (UTC)Anyway, there's these German prisoners of war in Britain, and it's getting towards Christmas, so they decide to plan a daring escape. Their prison is absolutely inescapeable, but by pretending they think they're Christmas trees, they get themselves moved to the psychiatric unit of the local hospital.
From here, they try to run away, but they're shot (hurrah). A funeral service is held for them on Christmas Eve, and combined with the village carol service. Unfortunately the choir have all been injured in the escape bid, leaving only the British soldiers, who strike up a rousing verse of 'God Rest Ye Jerry Mental Men'.
Anyway...
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