Independent Music

Holiday Heart is a 2 CD compilation of original Holiday music. It is also a very eclectic release of "Alternative"-ish sounds, spanning from lo-fi to folk to americana to alt. country to pop to power-pop to modern rck to singer/songwriter, and there is even a broadway-musical sounding number.

It is also a HOSPICE awareness and benefit project.

Each disc was created to tell an emotional story. One highlights the ebb an flow of romance and the holidays. The other disc tracks the span of emotions that the holidays evoke: from anticipatory joy to the growing frustration of "enough is enough" to hoping the true sentiment of the season will last all year.

The mix of artists is just as diverse: from Rick Derringer to Ron Sexsmith to The Dismemberment Plan to local New Jersey favorites, Jon Caspi, Boxcar Nancy and the Super Karaoke Fun Time Band.

All proceeds after cost goes to Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, a leading, nonprofit hospice in New Jersey, which has been around since the begining of the hospice movement. And is in fact credited as being the first Medicare aproved hospice of the state.

Volunteer Records is only in exsistance to help raise awareness of hospice and to raise money for Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center through the release of alternative holiday music. In fact, the label is run by Spiro Ballas, who is the Volunteer Coordinator for Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center.

For more info please go to our website:
www.hohohospice.com

And get a copy of our first release: Ho Ho Ho Spice.

Check out the artist's website:
http://www.hohohospice.com

Track List:
1. DUSTY WRIGHT, Christmas Is Coming Down
2. LEAH ZICARI, Thursday in December
3. RON SEXSMITH, Maybe This Christmas
4. THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, This Christmas
5. RICK DERRINGER, Christmas Valentine
6. DON MCAVOY & THE GREAT WHATEVER, Best Christmas Ever
7. MARC BACINO, Merry Christmas, I Love You
8. ELLEN BERNFELD, Christmas Time Is Merry
9. GIDGETS GA GA, Christmas Wish
10. HUFFAMOOSE, Hanukkah & Christmas Hand in Hand
11. JON CASPI, Eight Days
12. PAULA KELLEY, Why Christmas (the Longest Day of the Year)
13. JOLYNN DANIELS, Doesn't Feel Like Christmas
14. DAVE GLEASON'S WASTED DAYS, Christmas in California
15. LAST TRAIN HOME, Home For Christmas
16. THE BITTER HEARTS, 12 Days
17. THE MONTGOMERY CLIFFS, Christmas Lights
18. BOBBY STEWART & THE CONTRAIRES, Happy Holiday
19. HEATLAMP, Dancing in the Snow
20. CHANDLER TRAVIS PHILHARMONIC, If We Can Just Make It Through Chr
21. PETER WILSON, Feels Like Last Year
22. SUPER KARAOKE FUN TIME BAND, Last Present Under the Tree
23. PROF. LOUIE & THE CROWMATIX, Holiday Time Is Here
24. BOXCAR NANCY, Feels Like Christmas
25. THE RENOVATORS, It Must Be Christmas
26. CATHY HARRINGTON & THE CHRIST STAMEY GROUP, Sha La La
27. DAN PAVELICH (OF THE BRADBURYS), So Glad It's Christmas
28. HOLIDAY MUSIC, The Shopping Mall
29. JOHN TWIST, Scrooge in Black and White
30. LIZANNE KNOTT, Merry Christmas
31. MARIANN MERINGOLO, The Perfect Gift (i'm Giving Love This Christ
32. THE NUMBER THEORY, A Christmas Chill
33. GREEN TO THINK, It's Christmas Eve
34. WHISTLE JACKET, No Such Thing As Santa
35. PROFESSOR & MARYANN, Ten Tubas
36. KEVIN BRIODY, Walnuts & Rice
37. OTIS GIBBS, Color Wheel
38. NINA MANKIN, Red Blue Yellow Green
39. NADINE GOELLNER, It Must Be Christmas Time
40. DENNIIS LIVINGSTON, I'm Seeing My Children For Christmas
41. MARVELKiND, (A Not So) Merry Christmas
42. PROJECT: PIMENTO, That's Christmas
43. DAVID ROTH, Little Christmas Song
44. MARY KARLZEN, (Not Just Until) The Season Ends

Suggested CDs:

v/a Christmas

Other Genres: