Holiday Fruitcake Offers Alternative Music Choice to Standard Holiday Fare 🎄🎅☃️

If you’re looking to break free from the usual holiday playlist, Holiday Fruitcake 6 offers a welcome alternative. Released worldwide for the 2025 holiday season on Smoking Bishop Records, the latest volume in the Holiday Fruitcake series delivers a collection of entirely original holiday songs created by independent artists who put creativity first.

Holiday Fruitcake 6 is available to stream or download on Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pandora, Deezer, YouTube, and most other major digital platforms, with CDs also available. This year’s release features nine brand-new tracks from Busker Incognito & the Christmas Balls, The Gruntles, Lewis Music Inc., Cowboy Ernie Sites, Scoria, The Mohnflowers, Jolene Windmiller, and Dave Kline & the Mountain Folk Band, spanning a wide range of musical styles.

The album is paired with new YouTube videos for every song, expanding the project beyond audio alone. To showcase the music, a one-hour cable TV and internet special was created, hosted by Dave Kline, Bob Yost, and Dave Lewis, the principal producers behind the Holiday Fruitcake project. The new special joins three previous Holiday Fruitcake one-hour programs and is available on demand on YouTube, with additional airings on select cable outlets including BCTV and CWTAP-TV.

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The Holiday Fruitcake project began in 2020 during the COVID lockdown, when producers and musicians Dave Kline and Dave Lewis set out to encourage artists to write and record original holiday music at a time when live performances and creative outlets had largely disappeared. Animator Bob Yost soon joined the effort, along with a growing circle of songwriters and performers, helping transform a one-time collaboration into an annual release series.

Now in its sixth year, Holiday Fruitcake continues to celebrate originality, collaboration, and genre-blending holiday music. The full Holiday Fruitcake catalog is available on major digital platforms, offering listeners a growing alternative to traditional seasonal fare.

I find the Holiday Fruitcake project genuinely interesting, especially as a platform for independent artists to showcase their creativity outside the usual holiday mold. It’s inspiring to see so many original voices come together to create something joyful for the season—and yes, in their own way, they really are bringing a little joy to the world.

More on this can be found here: https://www.bctv.org/2025/12/12/holiday-fruitcake-6-offers-alternative-music-choice-to-standard-holiday-fare/