THE ORCHESTRA
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra is a holiday supergroup made up of 30+ musicians who believe in the spirit of the Season. The group features members of The Never, Lost in the Trees, Auxiliary House, Butterflies, Embarrassing Fruits and Vibrant Green, all bands on the Trekky Records Label, based in Chapel Hill, NC. The band is a true orchestra, incorporating violins, viola, cellos, trumpet, trombone, french horn, euphonium, flutes, saxophones, accordion and mandolin into the traditional rock band set up. TYO believes that it takes the power of many to truly convey the Spirit of Christmas.
The Orchestra is non-denominational, neither promoting of affiliating with any religion. While much of the music is "Christmas Music", the focus is on that wonderful feeling of the Holiday Season, and the concepts of brotherhood, unity, getting people presents, pretty lights and goodwill towards men and women. In general, we play for the benefit of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, which promotes awareness of the debilitating disease of MS, and raises money to cure it.
Fun fact: Yule was actually a pagan festival which was eventually moved to occur on December 25 to align with Christmas. Later, the terms became interchangable. WOW!
THE HISTORY
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra reforms every holiday season to host a concert called Christmas at the Cradle, a celebratory event featuring the best musicians from North Carolina playing Christmas, holiday and winter-themed music. Here's who we've had in the past:
Annuals
Bellafea
Ben Davis
Billy Sugarfix
Birds and Arrows
David Karsten Daniels
Des Ark
Dexter Romweber
En Garde
Eerie Choir
The Future Kings of Nowhere
Hammer No More the Fingers
The International Grapevine
Ivan Rosebud
I Was Totally Destroying It
Megafaun
Midtown Dickens
The Moaners
The Mountain Goats
Mount Weather
North Elementary
Organos
Portastatic
Prayers and Tears
Robosapien
Rock & Roll Elf
The Scene of the Crime Rovers
Schooner
Sorry About Dresden
The Strugglers
Stuart McLamb & Missy Thangs
Sweater Weather
Veelee
Whatever Brains
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra - A New Old Fashioned Christmas
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"A New Old Fashioned Christmas" was arranged, rehearsed, recorded and finished in one week in August of 2006. Its a great Christmas gift!
