Sing-along Café Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

What a lovely afternoon spent with lovely people, singing songs with a Winter theme!

It's definitely wintry outside. Freezing cold, blustry, and I had to shovel the driveway this morning. We were warm and comfortable in the Fellowship Room, with tea and some sweet things that I had baked and frozen at Christmas for us, spicy and sweet.

My playlist is a varied bunch of stuff sometimes only loosely tied to winter. We listened to and sang with different versions of a few songs, settling on one vibe or another. With Baby, It's Cold Outside, we sang both and felt shocked at one (how was that okay?!!) and thoroughly enjoyed the other (young people are so much smarter). Robyn and I knew some of these songs very well, having sung versions of them with our choir. I used my old joke about loving bum-bums (actually do, though) when we sang Wintersong. Other songs we all knew well from hearing them on the radio. We enjoyed the Alicia Moffet version of Winter Wonderland because it didn't feel like a Christmas song for a change. It's good to walk outside and wonder at the beauty of winter, and it's also good to sit inside in the warmth of connection.

We're going to stick with the Winter theme for next week since we have so much music left, and so much winter left too. Something we talked about was the idea of winter as a season of life, getting old. I have some positive songs about the winter of our lives. I really want to sing that song from Frozen too!

Here's a sampling of what we sang and listened to today:

Button Up Your Overcoat by Nancy Sinatra
Baby, It's Cold Outside by Frank Sinatra and by John Legend
The Boxer by Simon & Garfunkel
California Dreamin', by the Mamas and the Papas
Cold as Ice by Foreigner
December, 1963 by the Four Seasons
It Never Rains in Southern California by Sonny & Cher
Snowman by the Barenaked Ladies
Snowman by Sia
Song for a Winter's Night by Gordon Lightfoot, by Sarah McLaughlan, and by Blue Rodeo
Winter Song by Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Winter Wonderland by Alicia Moffet, by the Euythmics, and by Blake Shelton

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