Chanukah (Shake It Off) by Six13— Murfin Winter Holidays Music Festival 2023-‘24

 

                                            Chanukah (Shake it Off) by Six13.

Tonight is the eighth and final night of the Jewish Festival of Life, Hanukkah.  Families gather to light the final candle on the Menorah  to commemorate the miraculous lamp in the Holy of Holies in the Temple in Jerusalem for eight days on only enough oil for one.  They recount the old tale, pray some, then celebrate with games, songs, special foods, and small gifts.

Six13 in 2019.

Six13, a Jewish a cappella group gives the occasion the full boy band treatment with a song based on Shake It Off, originally recorded by Taylor Swift.  Why not?  She’s everywhere these days.

Bohemian Chanukah— The Murfin Winter Holidays Music Festival

                                                        Bohemian Chanukah by Six13.

Note—It’s a two-fer today so we can celebrate the eighth and final night of Hanukkah!

Elaborate parodies have become very popular for Hanukkah in recent years. 

Jewish a cappella group Six13.

Six13 is a groundbreaking, six-man a cappella vocal band bringing new style and energy to Jewish music.  Eight award-winning albums have landed Six13 among the top Jewish music artists on iTunes and Spotify. Music from those albums has been adapted by choirs worldwide, played on mainstream radio across the globe, and selected for ten “best-of” compilations.  They have awards from the Harmony Sweepstakes and the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America and were three-time finalists for NBC’s prime-time The Sing-Off.

                                        Six13's Hanukkah album.

Bohemian Chanukah appeared on the group’s 2018 album The Chanukah Collection when the Academy Award winning film Bohemian Rapsody starring Rami Malek was reviving interest in Queen and Freddy Mercury.  The group picked it as the song for the eighth and last night.