2001 - 2005:

Holiday Music is a collaborative music group that only exists in December of each year. Founded by Barry Phipps (The Coctails, Tight Ship Records) and Mark Janka and Tim Joyce (The Lesser Birds of Paradise), Holiday Music has been recording music every December since 2001.

About two weeks before Christmas, the core group of Barry, Mark and Tim drop by Barry's recording studio and make up songs on the spot that are about, or inspired by the Holiday season. Some songs are funny, some are instrumental, some are old standards reworked into a new arrangement. The Holiday Music sessions have an open door policy. All of Barry, Mark and Tim's friends are invited to drop by and contribute to the collaboration. Close to fifty musicians have become part of the Holiday Music collective over the years, including Edith Frost, Kelly Hogan, Thax Douglas, The Like Young, and many others.

On the 2005 EP Barry, Mark and John are joined joined by Mark Greenberg (The Coctails), Charles Kim (The Astronomer), Pramod Tummala, Eric Bandurski, Chris Erin (Morning Recordings), Bill Lowman and Darren Garvey (Bosco & Jorge), Bill Britt, Matt Carson and Pat Dawson (Slow Planet), Edith Frost and the Heywood Yards Vocal Choir.

This cd contains the 2005 EP and selections from the previous 4 eps, previously only given away to their friends as a Holiday presents.

Holiday Music 2001 - 2005 is a two CD set and includes 31 songs.