AllMusicConsidered has officially announced that the duet of Sandy Dhuyvetter and George Powell of Lake Leelanau are releasing their first Christmas single on Dec. 1.
The song, “Christmas Tree Farmin’” is in collaboration with Matty Twigg in Hampshire, England. All three musicians are performers and Twitch music streamers.
The collaboration called the Christmas Collabamajig came together as a group of over 24 Twitch musicians wrote and produced an album of Christmas songs to celebrate the season and provide funding for Doctors without Borders. The digital album can be found and purchased on cc23.bandcamp.com. So far over $10,000 has been collected.
The song, “Christmas Tree Farmin’” is the story of Powell’s growing up farming Christmas trees near Traverse City. The Christmas trees seedlings were planted in four counties, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Benzie and Kalkaska. It was a substantial year-round endeavor supplying up to 30,000 trees around the country during the season.
After the distribution was completed, Powell and a few of the workers would travel south to set up an old fashioned Christmas tree lot in Detroit.
“We would stay until Christmas eve in a small trailer until we sold out the trees,” Powell said. “It was not always easy to have a Christmas spirit after so many months of hard work.” Sandy Dhuyvetter added, “the song has a country, easy feeling to it. It’s got a folksy, full of life vibe and a strong beat for tapping your toes.”
The tree musicians are hoping to raise respect and pay tribute to all who work on farms and especially Christmas tree farming.
Powell and Dhuyvetter play music throughout the area and beyond. A duo in life and music they play regularly at Martha’s Leelanau Table on Friday nights. They perform on twitch. tv/AllMusicConsidered 3xs each week for three hours. Their twitch followers’ number in excess of 24,000. Music from around the world best describes the duos song list. For more information go to: www. AllMusicConsidered.com
