{"id":14238,"date":"2012-12-21T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14238"},"modified":"2012-12-21T16:05:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T00:05:32","slug":"more-christmas-music-watch-polyphonic-sprees-tiny-desk-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-12\/more-christmas-music-watch-polyphonic-sprees-tiny-desk-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"More Christmas Music&#8211;Watch Polyphonic Spree&#8217;s Tiny Desk Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re here to tell you:\u00a0 no one can top <strong>Sufjan Stevens <\/strong>when it comes to Christmas concerts.\u00a0 Stevens, Rosie Thomas and crew simply sleighed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-12\/review-photos-and-video-sufjan-stevens-at-henry-fonda-theater-in-la\/\">on their recent tour<\/a> <\/strong>in support of his new Christmas box-set, <strong>Silver &amp; Gold<\/strong>.\u00a0 Another group putting on a Christmas concert (for the 10th year in a row apparently) is the mega-group out of Dallas, <strong>The Polyphonic Spree<\/strong>.\u00a0 They are currently touring in support of a new album entitled <strong>Holidaydream<\/strong>.\u00a0 While on tour, the troupe packed into<strong> NPR&#8217;s Tiny Desk Concert<\/strong> space with horns, scads of female singers and assorted other paraphernalia.\u00a0 Check out their three-song set below.\u00a0 What (cult?) leader Tim DeLaughter lacks vocally, he more than makes up for with vigor and vim.\u00a0 The set list is below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Set List<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Happy Xmas (War Is Over)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>The Christmas Song<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Silver Bells<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Polyphonic Spree: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6D5r_7UW8eA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re here to tell you:\u00a0 no one can top Sufjan Stevens when it comes to Christmas concerts.\u00a0 Stevens, Rosie Thomas and crew simply sleighed on their recent tour in support of his new Christmas box-set, Silver &amp; Gold.\u00a0 Another group putting on a Christmas concert (for the 10th year in a row apparently) is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}