PORT TOWNSEND — With his Holiday Hi-Jinx shows sold out for the past two years, Paul Rogers and his band are back for this year’s edition at the Key City Playhouse on Tuesday and Wednesday evening, Dec. 22 and 23.
In shows at 7:30 p.m. both nights, Rogers and the Holiday Hi-Jinxers — George Rezendes, Tom Svornich, Kurt Festinger, Dirk Anderson and vocalist Carla Main — will dish up a feast of irreverent Christmas music.
Tickets to the concerts are $15 via www.keycitypublictheatre.org and 360-385-KCPT (5278).
Among Rogers’ time-honored favorites are “Santa Don’t Do It (Shave on Christmas Eve),” “Rockin’ the Nativity Scene” and NPR’s 2002 Christmas song of the year, “Santa Lost A Ho.”
Then there are some fresh numbers: “Working on the Holiday,” “Creepy Santa” and “Stuffing the Bird,” which Rogers feels will soon be a yuletide as well as Thanksgiving classic.
For the Holiday Hi-Jinx band, Rogers is gathering the same bunch as last year.
“Who wouldn’t? These are some of the best musicians on the Olympic Peninsula,” he says.
To mix things up a bit, drummer Svornich is preparing to sing “Santa Claus Wants Some Loving,” Main is primed to belt out “Please Come Home for Christmas,” bassist Anderson will take over the singing duties on “Shopping for Myself,” and both Main and Rezendes will assist Rogers on the Dan Hicks tune “Under The Mistletoe.”
A member of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Christmas Jug Band and longtime frontman for Those Darn Accordions, Rogers said these Peninsula shows are something he relishes.
“Port Townsend folks are always a pleasure to play for,” he said.
“They give back so much great energy.”
