Auld Lang Syne

A collaboration between the legendary Darcelle XV (the Guinness Record holder as oldest performing drag queen) and Pink Martini, released on Darcelle's 92nd birthday!

The Rose

What'll I Do

The first single from the upcoming album, to be released May 19.

25 years in the making! Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale's rumored collaboration with legendary surf rock sensations, Satan's Pilgrims, was lost in the mists of time. Now, this long-awaited album, recorded concurrently with Pink Martini's seminal debut album "Sympathique," is finally seeing the light of day. Buoyed by Lauderdale’s sparkling piano fireworks atop the Pilgrims' iconic surf sound, the album features blazing interpretations of beloved standards such as “Night and Day,” “Malagueña” and “Rhapsody in Blue” alongside dazzling classic surf excursions.

Thomas Lauderdale Meets the Pilgrims

Thomas Lauderdale Meets the Pilgrims - Malagueña

The second single from the upcoming album, to be released May 19.

25 years in the making! Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale's rumored collaboration with legendary surf rock sensations, Satan's Pilgrims, was lost in the mists of time. Now, this long-awaited album, recorded concurrently with Pink Martini's seminal debut album "Sympathique," is finally seeing the light of day. Buoyed by Lauderdale’s sparkling piano fireworks atop the Pilgrims' iconic surf sound, the album features blazing interpretations of beloved standards such as “Night and Day,” “Malagueña” and “Rhapsody in Blue” alongside dazzling classic surf excursions.

Thomas Lauderdale Meets the Pilgrims - Night and Day

The third single from the upcoming album, to be released May 19.

25 years in the making! Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale's rumored collaboration with legendary surf rock sensations, Satan's Pilgrims, was lost in the mists of time. Now, this long-awaited album, recorded concurrently with Pink Martini's seminal debut album "Sympathique," is finally seeing the light of day. Buoyed by Lauderdale’s sparkling piano fireworks atop the Pilgrims' iconic surf sound, the album features blazing interpretations of beloved standards such as “Night and Day,” “Malagueña” and “Rhapsody in Blue” alongside dazzling classic surf excursions.

Thomas Lauderdale Meets the Pilgrims - Rhapsody in Blue

1. White Christmas
2. White Christmas (part II)
feauring Saori Yuki
3. Shchedryk (Ukrainian Bell Carol)
4. Santa Baby
5. Elohai, N’tzor
6. Little Drummer Boy
7. Congratulations – A Happy New Year Song
8. Do You Hear What I Hear?
9. La Vergine Degli Angeli
10. We Three Kings
11. A Snowglobe Christmas
12. Ocho Kandelikas (Eight Little Candles)
13. Silent Night
14. Auld Lang Syne

Joy To The World is a festive, nondenominational holiday album with music from around the globe. “There are 14 songs on Joy to the World,” says Thomas Lauderdale, “including well-known traditional holiday songs like Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”…sung by China Forbes in English and by the incredible Saori Yuki… the Barbra Streisand of Japan… in Japanese. With the Pacific Youth Choir and the handbell choir Bells of the Cascades, we recorded “Shchedryk,” known in English-speaking countries as “Carol of the Bells,” with the original Ukrainian text which tells of a lark flying into the house at the start of a new year, thus bringing good fortune. We recorded a Hebrew prayer “Elohai N’tzor” with Ida Rae Cahana and Ari Shapiro and Patricia Costa Kim. (Ida Rae Cahana was for many years the canter at Central Synagogue in New York City and now lives in Portland… Ari Shapiro is the NPR White House correspondent… and accordionist Patricia Costa Kim was just named director of education at Experience Music Project in Seattle, but is also known by millions on YouTube as the keyboardist bandleader of Sonseed and their Christian ska song “Jesus is a friend of mine”). There’s a Chinese New Year song from 1946, a Felainspired version of “We Three kings,” a song in Ladino (the intersection of Spanish and Hebrew), “Silent Night” in the original German, as well as a verse in Arabic and another in English. The album ends with a samba parade of “Auld Lang Syne” with choruses in English, Arabic and French over the incredible percussion of the Lions of Batucada.” Lauderdale notes, “I love the holidays and all the music that goes with it. We strove to make an inclusive and non-denominational album that could be played anywhere in the world.”

Auld Lang Syne

Heinz Records

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