Songs of Christmas from Asia Pacific

I'm proud and humbled to participate in this project.

Excited to announce Sounds of Christmas from Asia Pacific, dubbed as Sydney's first multilingual and intercultural Christmas song album! If you haven't thought of a Christmas gift this year, this music CD would make a unique Christmas gift for your loved ones and community :)

Showcasing the diverse, creative multicultural and multilingual communities in Sydney, this groundbreaking community music album project features eight Sydney vocalists singing classic Christmas songs in eight Asia Pacific languages: Kiarateuila Lattimore (Samoan), Peter Lazaro (Indonesian), Jinky Marsh (Filipino), Kumi Matsuda (Japanese), Loma Schaaf (Tongan), Radhika Sukumar-White (Tamil), Ruci Tuiwai (Fijian) and Cynthia Su (Mandarin).

Supported by City of Sydney, the featured songs include O Holy Night (Samoan), What Child Is This? (Filipino), O Come All Ye Faithful (Fijian), It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (Indonesian), Silent Night (Tamil), Hark! The Herald The Angel Sing (Japanese), The First Noel (Tongan), and Auld Lang Syne (Mandarin). Significantly, this album project has been produced and recorded during Sydney’s lockdown.

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PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE
As this is a not-for-profit community development project, there are only limited editions of the Christmas album available. 50% of the proceeds from this albumsales will towards seed funding for a subsequent multilingual music project, 20% will go towards supporting Mudgin-gal Women’s Place, an Aboriginal women-led organisation supporting vulnerable women and the 25% remainder will go to The House of Welcome that shelters, welcomes and empowers people seeking asylum and refugees regardless of their age, gender, sexuality, nationality or religion.

JOIN US FOR A ZOOM ALBUM LAUNCH
The launch event is taking place on Friday, 26th

STREAM THE ALBUM
This album will be available to stream from December 2021.

Producers: Kevin Bathman & Benjamin Oh
Musicians: Jeremy Koay, Peter Lazaro, John Hoac & Grace Song
Assistant Producer: Bibiana Peter
Audio Engineer: Karna K.
Illustrator: Freda Chiu

​​We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land - past, present, and emerging.
We acknowledge that we are on Aboriginal land, the traditional owners of Australia from over 500 Indigenous nations and language groups. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.