Spotlight: A Peanuts Christmas: The 2009 Zunior Holiday Album

This week is a little unusual. Our weekly spotlight is really to showcase individual artists but it's the holiday season, and we're in the middle of a recession so, it's time to make an exception. Record numbers of Canadians are using food banks and at the same time donations to food banks are falling, leaving them to try to do more with less every month.

So, the good folks at Zunior plucked a holiday favorite from the vaults, made some calls, and put together A Peanuts Christmas: The 2009 Zunior Holiday Album. With all the proceeds going to the Daily Bread Food Bank.

In 1965 Vince Guaraldi, created a classic soundtrack for the Charlie Brown Christmas cartoon that most of us have grown up with. On the new Zunior album some of your favorite Canadian artists recreated the soundtrack song for song - with each bringing their own distinct style to the song.

01. Don Kerr, Kevin Lacroix and Dave Wall - O Tennenbaum -
02. Wayne Petti - What Child Is This -
03. Nick Zubeck - My Little Drum -
04. Dave Merritt and The Quiet Revolution - Linus and Lucy -
05. Jason Kenemy and Dave Clark - Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental) -
06. The Awkward Stage - Christmas Time Is Here (Vocal) -
07. Mike O'Neill - Skating -
08. The Violet Archers featuring Ruedi, Sadie and Oliver - Hark, The Herald Angels Sing -
09. Ben Gunning - Christmas Is Coming -
10. Ruth Minnikin - Fur Elise -
11. Jill Barber - The Christmas Song -
12. Construction and Destruction - Greensleeves -

You can grab a copy on high quality (256 VBR MP3) complete with album art for $8.88 and/or on Lossless Flac for an extra $2.