# Busking Folky Carols near Christmas? - looking for double bass, strings, horns, singers...

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**Created:** [30 September 2026 19:20 UTC](https://yorkmusic.org/t/busking-folky-carols-near-christmas-looking-for-double-bass-strings-horns-singers/20 "2026-09-30T19:20:02Z")
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### Author: ![pacharanero](https://yorkmusic.org/user_avatar/yorkmusic.org/pacharanero/32/7_2.png) [@pacharanero](https://yorkmusic.org/u/pacharanero)
#### Post date: [30 September 2026 19:20 UTC](https://yorkmusic.org/t/busking-folky-carols-near-christmas-looking-for-double-bass-strings-horns-singers/20/1 "2026-09-30T19:20:02Z")

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Where I used to live, in a small village just outside York, we did enjoy a tradition of doing some outdoor Christmas Carols with a scratch band playing outside a pub on Christmas Eve. It was basically whoever turned up - violin, trombone, viola, double bass, and anyone who wanted to sing. I play melodeon which is a kind of diatonic button accordion, it can only really do the keys of D and G, but that generally works for carols and works fine for the strings.

I wondered if there would be anyone in the York area that would fancy doing a similar thing but busking around the town as a group. Any time leading up for Christmas, we could collect for charity, and slope off to the pub afterwards.

I have a pad of music for about a dozen carols, which is generally enough carols for people to feel like they had a nice carol sing, and stops short of freezing people to death.

Anyone interested?