{"id":25764,"date":"2017-10-20T18:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T00:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=25764"},"modified":"2017-10-20T18:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T00:52:33","slug":"christmas-beat-goes-pentatonix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/christmas-beat-goes-pentatonix\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Beat Goes on for Pentatonix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every third week of October for the past several years Pentatonix has debuted a new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> single. This year is no different. But this <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> single features just four singers &#8212; an odd thing for a group whose name is based on &#8220;five&#8221;. The song is a traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> carol &#8212; <em>Away in a Manger<\/em> &#8212; performed respectfully in Pentatonix&#8217; untraditional style.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, it&#8217;s great:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GjtYtBGrP6Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But there is more than a new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> song to announce to America&#8217;s biggest selling <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> group of the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>First, there&#8217;s the new NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> television special scheduled for Monday, November 27th on NBC called &#8220;A Very Pentatonix Christmas&#8221;. The one-hour television event will feature a duet with Oscar, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and Grammy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson. Also slated to appear are Jay Leno and 13-year-old &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; winner Darci Lynne Farmer. Other guest stars will be announced in coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>But of bigger and more permanent news is that Pentatonix was not slated to remain a quartet &#8212; so that video above may be a rare collector in the years ahead. Pentatonix adding a new singer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetheunicorns.com\/news\/new-member-pentatonix\/#f4Zx8UTe6d44ZifZ.97\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Sallee<\/a>, to the group, supposedly to replace the departed Avi Kaplan, the original bass voice that left the group over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> fans Pentatonix has been a godsend to <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music in recent years. Though Milennials, whose belief in Christ or the traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> is quite unknown, the group has provided a fresh and entertain return to many <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> classics over the years and judging by the numbers of albums sold the public loves it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Away in a Manger&#8221; is a classic, American written <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> hymn dating back to the 1860s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every third week of October for the past several years Pentatonix has debuted a new Christmas single. This year is no different. But this Christmas single features just four singers &#8212; an odd thing for a group whose name is based on &#8220;five&#8221;. The song is a traditional Christmas carol &#8212; Away in a Manger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}