Newfoundland & Labrador
Christmas
Music
It's beginning to sound a lot like Newfoundland!
If there's one thing Newfoundland and Labrador knows how to do, it's make great music. And Christmas is no exception!
Over the years, I've collected a growing assortment of Christmas songs written or performed by Newfoundland and Labrador artists. Some are old favourites, some are brand new, but all have found a place on my holiday playlists.
Up first, you'll find my Newfoundland and Labrador Christmas Music Advent Calendars. For years, I've been counting down to Christmas by sharing a favourite local Christmas song every day from December 1 through December 24 (and sometimes beyond!). It's a daily dose of Christmas music — Newfoundland-style. Here you can browse the old calendars and follow along to the latest.
And if you're looking for something to listen to while you wrap presents… or enjoy a Christmas slush, scroll down to the bottom of the page. There you'll find links to Newfoundland Christmas music playlists on YouTube, Apple Music, and Spotify featuring a selection of my favourite Newfoundland and Labrador Christmas songs.
And, of course, there's more to Christmas in Newfoundland and Labrador than just the music. After the playlists you'll find links to some of my favourite Newfoundland Christmas stories and folklore, along with podcast episodes exploring a few of the island's curious traditions, characters, and Christmas customs!!!
Happy holidays!
2026 Newfoundland & LABRADOR Christmas Music Calendar
Coming December 2026
2025 Christmas Music Calendar
2 days until Christmas… The Once find the magic in Old Toy Trains
3 days til Christmas… Doug White celebrates the simple pleasure of the season in Christmas Time Once More.
4 days til Christmas… mark the shortest day with this tune from Matthew Hender’s 2024 ep Winter Solstice.
5 days until Christmas… Check out Josh Janes take on Pleas Come Home For Christmas
6 days til Christmas… Check out Jerry Stamp with King Nancy and their rockier take on the Wham! classic.
7 days until Christmas… Clare Follett takes a Joni Mitchell classic and makes it her own.
It’s almost here — only one more sleep. David Brodie has a perfect song for that!!
It’s Tibb’s Eve… only two days until Christmas! Spend some of your day listening to Tim Baker’s Saint Tibb’s Suite.
Three days until Christmas — HarpistKT’s rendition of ‘Carol of the Bells’ is subtle and powerful. Check it out!
4 days until Christmas… and Kim Stockwood is giving me a hankering for a martini…
It’s Christmas in 5 days… that’s the opening line of Jason W. Gill’s ‘This Christmas’.
6 days until Christmas… Make the season merrier with this country-flavoured Christmas song from Gregg Bolger.
7 days until Christmas… maybe it’s time for a beautiful lullaby
2024 Christmas Music Calendar
Carolina East’s Home for the Holidays album is one of my Christmas favourites — she makes familiar holiday classics all her own.
It’s Tibb’s Eve! This year we have a new Tibb’s Eve song thanks to Port-aux-Poutines
Ian Foster and Nancy Hynes’ version of the Christmas classic ‘Old Toy Trains’ is one of my favourites.
There are just 4 days until Christmas and The Ennis Sisters are helping me cope with an awful weather forecast.
There are 5 days until Christmas… and today I’m listening to Rum Ragged’s version of one of my old favourite.
Check out this not-so-typical holiday song from Andrew Pike.
Part of Christmas is coming to terms with loss, ‘The Robe’ by Rosemary Lawton and Brad Tuck taps into those emotions beautifully.
2023 Christmas Music Calendar
1 more sleep! Have a Merry Christmas, Everyone!
2 days and it’s time to fall Into Christmas.
3 days until Christmas… time for Three Ships.
Happy midwinter — it’s all looking brighter from here.
Old songs don’t have to always be done the same old way.
Two (great) songs for the price of one from Tomorrow’s Hangover.
A guitar-forward take on a Christmas classic.
2022 Chriistmas Music Calendar
2021 Christmas Music Calendar
Have yourself a merry little Christmas… and be kind to yourself
3 ships, 2 days and only one Fine Lads.
3 days til Christmas — check out these renditions of the Simani classic Christmas Fancy by Jordan Harnum and the Ennis Sisters.
Something beautiful for the bleakest days.
Secret Santa… hate the game… love the song.
Newfoundland Christmas Playlists
Classic(ish) NL Christmas Music
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Newfoundland Christmas Stories
Stranded on a barren island just after Christmas, two men built a boat from scraps, rusty nails, and ice—then trusted it with their lives.
A young schoolteacher’s 1876 Christmas journey from St. John’s to Fogo reveals mummering, bonfires, and outport hospitality — a timeless Newfoundland Christmas story about belonging, tradition, and finding home in unexpected places.
On Christmas Eve, 1726, Paddy Kelly met something on the road near Keels — a black cat that seemed to growing larger with every step it took.
They were supposed to leave before winter. When they didn’t, the Christmas whales of Springdale turned a frozen bay into a story no one would forget.
Instead of Christmas lights and carols, young men in Bonavista Bay had a different holiday tradition: bare-knuckled fights.
Stranded on a frozen rock at Christmas, the Queen of Swansea castaways faced starvation, despair—and unimaginable choices.
A love lost, a restless spirit, and a cursed town... Can they escape the past? Find out in the old Newfoundland Boxing Day tale.
In this Christmas story, set on Tibb’s Eve in Trinity, Clara stumbles upon a house aglow with warmth and stories from the past. As the night unfolds, she discovers the magic of memories, old friends, and the fleeting nature of time.
A Christmas voyage gone wrong, the story of the Ellen Munn lives on in song—as a tale of courage, kindness, and the perils of Newfoundland winter.
On Boxing Day, Martha’s lonely world changes when a mysterious mummer arrives with a song that brings back memories of lost love. A dance and a promise fulfilled make for the strangest Christmas miracle ever.
Christmas At the Podcast
Newfoundland has its share of strange Christmas stories — but not too many involve hand-to-hand combat with a supernatural house cat. This one — from Keels— does.
They were supposed to leave before winter. When they didn’t, the Christmas whales of Springdale turned a frozen bay into a story no one would forget.
Pour a mug of hot chocolate (or maybe a glass of Christmas slush) for this tale of Tibb’s Eve in historic Trinity, Newfoundland
1 day until Christmas… Alan Doyle, Bryan Adams and friends make Ron Hynes modern day classic shine.