Camp Cupples

Camp Cupples is on the road, celebrating Christmas in Chicago. Our gift to the world is a new song called Closer To Christmas. We also get our first taste of our Nauti-Nog from the last episode.

Its a Christmas miracle! Nackie and Pat are both awake after putting the kids to bed. As always, there are Christmas songs new and old, along with wildlife explorations and egg nog.

Recorded before Christmas, but delayed by Covid and spontaneous travel, we are thrilled to get this episode to you by the 12th day of Christmas. Is wishing everyone a Merry Christmas aggressive? Can you conduct a children's choir 3000 miles apart? How many Christmas words start with B?All of your questions will be answered as well as live youtube fireplace updates by my friend and bandmate Erin Sidney.Syd and I also goad our eldest children into singing Happy Xmas (War is Over).The...

Nackie and I begin our second season of Camp Cupples with our own version of an office party in the she shed. Nackie has some Christmas trivia in store while we wait for our winter wood to be delivered.

Probably the last episode of season one. We chat about New Year's traditions and I release a brand new song called Choir. Nackie's sound effects put 2020 in perspective. Get your champagne out or grab a martini if you want to be like your hosts. Thanks for listening. See you in 2021 with a new season, more new music and hopefully new guests in the she-shed.Happy New Year!Pat and Nackie

Before we dove into my long form poem story, Nackie returns to the podcast to talk about some of our favorite seasonal music. Nick's Place was originally released in 2009 but feels very appropriate for our current mood. Merry Christmas! I think I hear Santa on the roof,

World-famous songwriter, composer and my frequent creative partner, Tim Blane joins me to discuss our musical side projects and straddling the line between Hanukkah and Christmas. Tim's former bandmates James Williams, Adam Tressler and our good friend Matt Bogdanow also joined me in recording my featured tune Defending Christmas. Naturally, Tim and I can't get together without creating some new music. So, stick around until the end for a little holiday treat!

We quarantined, got tested and headed north to Vermont this Thanksgiving to start our holiday season. While our kids wrecked the house, Lisa and I snuck out to her studio to play music and talk about the season. We are also lucky to give a listen to her brand new song, Bring Your Joy.

In this inaugural episode Pat reintroduces his favorite original Christmas song, Giving My Christmas and discusses the holidays with his wife, Nackie Karcher as his first guest. There is even an unrehearsed and highly questionable Mele Kalkimaka if you jingle all the way to the end.Merry Christmas!