Christmas Bingo

Description

Your students and audience will flip over this clever mashup of the popular carols “Up on the Housetop”; “Jingle Bells”; “In the Bleak Midwinter”; “The First Noel”; “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” and “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” all tied together with the familiar B-I-N-G-O melody. The piece stays in one tempo throughout, so it will come together with minimal rehearsal time and will be an absolute hit at your holiday concert.

Program Notes

“Christmas Bingo” is designed to be a fun holiday medley for young students, using popular Christmas carols combined with the classic children’s song “Bingo”. In the song, there is the catchy part that spells out the word: “B.I.N.G.O. and Bingo was his name-o.” Musing on this idea, I chose different carols to serve as the letters of the word “Bingo”.