New York Festival Of Song to Present Its Annual Holiday Show, A GOYISHE CHRISTMAS TO YOU!

New York Festival of Song will present its annual holiday show, A Goyishe Christmas to You! on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 9:00 p.m. at Merkin Hall. The program features favorite Yuletide tunes (performed with a twist) and specialty material by Jewish composers, sung by soprano Lauren Worsham, mezzo-sopranos Donna Breitzer and Rebecca Jo Loeb, tenor Alex Mansoori, baritone Joshua Jeremiah, and Cantor Joshua Breitzer. Steven Blier joins as pianist and host, alongside clarinetist Alan R. Kay.

"Now in its 16th year, our Jewish tribute to the Yuletide season has been an amazingly sturdy program," Steven Blier said. "It remains a comic gem as well as a touching, gently cathartic holiday tradition. It has only grown richer and more meaningful over the years."

A Goyishe Christmas to You! consists of Yuletide songs written by Jewish composers, from the wickedly funny to the meltingly beautiful. The show includes songs suggesting a variety of Jewish approaches to the Christmas hullabaloo, as well as classics like White Christmas and Winter Wonderland, and Yiddish versions of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Baby, It's Cold Outside-a popular seasonal anthology packed with contributions by Jewish songwriters on behalf of their gentile counterparts.

All NYFOS programming is funded, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.