Out November 6, 2026

Holiday Survival Kit Vol. 1

Album cover: Beth & Ritt’s Holiday Survival Kit Vol. 1 — four friends watching a winter sky

Cover art illustrated by Berszán Árus Bence

10 tracks · 35 minutes

Ten years of the live show. First time on a record.

Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Christmas, arranged the way we actually play them — which is to say, not the way you’ve heard them.

Happy Diwanukkwanzmas
Skating / Let It Snow
Union Square
Bhamma Bhamma
Hanukkah is Coming
Habari Gani? Kuumba! (What’s the News?)
Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake
Holiday Funk
This Little Light of Mine
The Best of Christmas

Featuring Roosevelt André Credit and Christine de Frece.

Musicians

Beth Falcone vocals, piano, Hammond B3 & melodica
Ritt Henn vocals, upright bass & bass guitar
Roosevelt André Credit vocals, tambourine & co-writer
Christine de Frece vocals
Rex Benincasa percussion
Ronnie Burrage percussion
David Stoller drums, percussion & finger snaps
Reid Jenkins violin
Dennis Lichtman clarinet & mandolin
Tony Romano electric guitar
Bob Malone B3, Rhodes & accordion

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Watch & Listen

Holiday Survival Kit — Sizzle Reel

Skating / Let It Snow — Official Video

In the studio

The sessions

Recorded at Samurai Hotel Recording Studio. Pictured: Beth Falcone and Ritt Henn with Roosevelt André Credit (vocals and tambourine), Christine de Frece (vocals), Rex Benincasa (percussion), Ronnie Burrage (percussion), David Stoller (drums, percussion and finger snaps), Reid Jenkins (violin), Dennis Lichtman (clarinet and mandolin), Tony Romano (electric guitar) and Bob Malone (B3, Rhodes and accordion).

Roosevelt André Credit, Beth Falcone, Ritt Henn and Christine de Frece in the studio.

Roosevelt André Credit in the vocal booth, holding the Holiday Survival Kit book.

Beth Falcone and Ritt Henn with a fellow musician in front of the studio’s wooden wave wall.

Beth Falcone and two collaborators taking a selfie at the mixing console.

A vocal take seen through the control-room glass.

Bob Malone playing accordion in the live room.

An engineer at the console while the monitor shows Roosevelt André Credit singing with a tambourine.

Ritt Henn, Beth Falcone, Roosevelt André Credit and Christine de Frece.

Bob Malone playing accordion in the studio.

Christine de Frece smiling at the vocal mic.

Two musicians smiling in a selfie in the studio lounge.

A singer with curly red hair laughing on the leather couch in the studio lounge.

Ritt Henn tuning an electric bass in the control room.

Ritt Henn playing electric bass in the control room while the engineer works at the console.

David Stoller at the drum kit in the live room, with a video camera set up in front.

The view from the console through the glass to a musician in the live room.

A singer in headphones in the vocal booth, seen through the glass.

Dennis Lichtman with Beth Falcone and Ritt Henn in front of the studio’s wooden wave wall.

Dennis Lichtman playing clarinet beside the grand piano.

Reid Jenkins playing violin in the live room, in front of the studio’s wooden wave wall.

Reid Jenkins smiling between takes, violin in hand.

Tony Romano playing electric guitar in the studio.

Tony Romano smiling as he plays electric guitar.

A vocalist in headphones points to the score of Habari Gani? Kuumba! in the vocal booth.

A vocalist grins and points at the Habari Gani? Kuumba! score beneath the vocal mic.

The Habari Gani? Kuumba! score in the foreground, with Ritt Henn on upright bass through the studio window.

Ronnie Burrage in headphones, playing percussion among clay pot drums and a bar chime.

The Habari Gani? Kuumba! score, with the percussion setup out of focus behind it.

A musician relaxing on a leather couch in the studio lounge.

The control-room monitor showing Ronnie Burrage at the clay pot drums.

An engineer at the session screen while the monitor shows Ronnie Burrage on percussion.

The camera feed showing Ronnie Burrage playing a hand drum.

Ritt Henn, Beth Falcone, Ronnie Burrage and Roosevelt André Credit in the studio, Roosevelt holding a beaded shaker.

Two musicians sharing a hug in the studio.

Two musicians smiling in a studio selfie.

An engineer at the mixing console, watching the vocal booth on the monitor.

The monitor showing a vocalist singing at the mic.

The camera feed showing Ritt Henn on upright bass in the live room.

Four people smiling together in the studio hallway.

The monitor showing a singer in a checked shirt at the vocal mic.

An engineer pointing to the hand-labelled tape strips covering a studio door.

An engineer’s hand on the trackball at the mixing console.

An engineer at the mixing console with the session on screen.

Three people smiling in a selfie in the studio hallway.

Rex Benincasa, Beth Falcone, and Ritt Henn with a collaborator in front of the studio’s wooden wave wall.