I have had great success with Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanual, and my favorite Sweet Little Jesus Boy, In the Bleak MidWinter, and believe it or not Wassail!
Any suggestions for some pretty music for church Christmas instrumentals with our organist and my whistle?
PS JessieK Glad you found Luna
TnWhistler,
A couple of weeks ago I started a topic, <a href=http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?topic=1472&forum=1&9>Christmas Carol Cheat SheetThere were several reply posts that may give you some leads on additional sources for Christmas Carol music. Click on the above link to take a look.
Hope this spawns some holiday cheer and helps you …
Here’s a couple of my favs"
In the Bleak Midwinter
Lo, How a Rose e’re Blooming
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Of the Father’s Love Begotten
(these last two are awesome done acappella - just crank some delay on the whistle, and they’re haunting! 
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And, I’m working on adapting an organ arrangement I have of In Dulci Jubilo - the tune of Good Christian Men Rejoice.
It’s beginning to look like… time to get practicing!
Cal
There’s a great tune called, I think, “Come and join the dance”.
The words go something like :-
O come and join the dance that all began so long ago
When Christ the Lord was born in Bethlehem
This is as much as I can remember off the top of my head and don’t have the music here, it’s at church. All I can remember of it is that it was resurrected by Graham Kendrick, well known christian music writer and leader in England (don’t know if you’ve got his stuff over there) and also features on a Celtic CD called “I am the Great Sun” (brilliant pipes, low/high whistle medley)
It’s a really joyous tune and good words.
Don’t know if this has been any help at all but I hope so.
A
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There’s a Polish carol “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly” which was the first thing I played my whistle on at church. It’s a simple but beautiful tune.
Two fave books at our house are Baroque Folks Cd and book Come Let us Be Merry and Bonnie Rideout’s book and CD A Scottish Christmas for Fiddle. Both are available at Melody’s Music in Dale’s links on the site.
– Nancy
A couple of years ago, our church did a thing called “Night of Silence”. It was Silent Night along with a descant. The descant was so beautiful, that I memorized it at that Midnight Mass. I am no genius or savant, but I was delighted that I kept that in memory. It was in a Roman Catholic group of Christmas hymns. If you find it, the whistle can EASILY do the descant. I now do this every year at every gig that I play.
Good luck,
Bob Pegritz