Wishing you ridiculous dance parties, found object music-making, and all the merriment in the world this holiday season! Love, Elena, Tom and Tico

We are beyond thrilled to welcome THE JUKEBOX ALBUM into the world… our second favorite thing we’ve created during the pandemic. 😉 We sincerely hope you enjoy these 17 tracks — including all six #UriPostePremieres, Tom’s gorgeous arrangements, an original composition penned especially for the album, a bit of kazoo-age, and this reconstruction of the Introduction to Lili Boulanger’s ‘Cortège’ featuring a tiny guest star. ⭐️ #UriPosteJukeBox has always been about and for you, our dear friends far and wide, so we dedicate this album to YOU! ♥️ #TheJukeBoxAlbum https://orchid-music.lnk.to/jukeboxalbum

A trip down lockdown memory lane, featuring a few of our favorite JukeBox moments: • Come On Eileen / Toxic / Baby Shark • Vintage Disney Medley • the world premiere of Mark Simpson’s ‘An Essay of Love’ • Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, III. Presto • Moonlight Serenade for 5 violins, 4 kazoos, piano, and kitchen whisk/sieve • Frozen Medley

We realize you're probably sick of all the recent Coronaversary posts, but we just had to mark the 1st birthday of our funny little JukeBox! One year ago today, we posted our first video — Tom’s arrangement of the song ‘When I Fall In Love’, made famous by birthday boy Nat King Cole — having no idea it would be the first of an 88-day streak. Over the next three months, scrunchies were donned, Frozen ballads were arranged, princess gowns were summoned from a 20-year slumber, six commissions were premiered, kazoos/recorders/triangles/cellos/concertinas were tooted, and our family dog’s acting abilities were exploited: it was a phase of life we never could have predicted, but looking back on it, we can’t imagine anything else. So to celebrate, we offer a #UriPosteJukeBox bonus episode, recorded back in November in London with our extraordinary friend Karim Sulayman: ‘How Cold the Wind Doth Blow’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It’s a song of grief, of what-ifs, of unfulfilled dreams, but also a quiet honoring of a love that burned brightly and will continue on across time and space. We’ve all lost far too much this past year due to the pandemic, and injustices towards communities of color and women show no signs of abating. But in the absence of “regular” life we have gained things I do hope never go away: a tightening of an international community; gratitude for good health, our own and that of others; and a renewed appreciation for love, music, and closeness wherever we can find it. ♥️

One year ago today, we gathered some of our favorite humans in the world into a crowded room in East London for our wedding celebration (dress code: animal-themed fancy dress optional — but of course!). We hugged, danced, had a Mariah Carey Christmas singalong, and enjoyed a massive buffet of Indian food, Chelsea buns, and cheese, never once considering that in a few short months such practices would be taboo and downright unsafe. We are grateful beyond words to have experienced so much love in one room, and will treasure the memories from that day forever. A year later, the two of us are singing (plucking? kazooing?) a different tune, but just like last year, we love a crowd, costumes, and homemade arrangements in close harmony. We know our funny little #UriPosteJukeBox doesn’t come close to fixing the loss, disappointment, and loneliness of this year. But we hope, for one last time in 2020, that we can bring some wee smiles to your faces, however fleeting. Sending love to each and every one of you, and thank you for all you’ve done to make US feel loved this year. Happy holidays, friends — onwards and upwards.

‘Tis the season for fuzzy reindeer hats, delicious-smelling candles, and... unnecessarily stressful double stop passages? We’ve both been suckers for this cozy song — particularly Nat King Cole’s iconic version — for as long as we can remember, and this juicy Christmas adaptation is just one more excuse for me to fulfill my ongoing dream of being in one of those old-timey, shimmery string sections. If you’d like to hear an expanded version of this arrangement and other goodies (another Tom Poster holiday masterpiece plus gems by Reynaldo Hahn and Florence Price), please join the two of us, Amy Harman, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Rosalind Ventris, and Sheku Kanneh-Mason for a special Christmas episode of In Tune on Friday, December 18 at 5 p.m. GMT on BBC Radio 3!