BRATTLEBORO — For seven years running, The Sweetback Sisters have been selling out theaters across the Northeast with their signature take on the holiday sing-along.
The country, swing, honky-tonk, and old-time music sextet will again be performing their annual Christmas concert in Brattleboro at the First Baptist Church, 190 Main St., on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 7 p.m.
This show requires audience participation (lyric sheets are provided) and a love for all kinds of holiday music. All the songs are presented with the Sweetback Sisters' signature mix of harmony singing, rollicking telecaster, and twin fiddling along with a healthy dose of holiday cheer.
Sweetback Sisters Emily Miller and Zara Bode's family-style harmonies recall the best of country music from the 1950s and 60s.
They started the Country Christmas Singalong in 2009 at the Jalopy Theater in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It has become a tradition, captured on the album The Sweetback Sisters' Country Christmas Singalong Spectacular, on which the band turns to the canon of Christmas and holiday songs.