THE LEEVEES: Loosen up, all people. It is a Hanukkah occasion. We’re The LeeVees.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

Hanukkah begins tonight. So this yr the parents at NPR Music invited The LeeVees to the Tiny Desk to carry out a few of their album, “Hanukkah Rocks.” Tiny Desk creator Bob Boilen even got here out of retirement and introduced snacks.

BOB BOILEN: (Laughter) I have been listening to this report with my son for, like, 18 years or one thing yearly at Hanukkah. These songs are a lot enjoyable. Thanks. I made you some bagels.

DAVE SCHNEIDER: I do know.

ADAM GARDNER: Superb.

SCHNEIDER: That is loopy.

SHAPIRO: The album was a collaboration between just a few touring musicians, together with Adam Gardner of Guster and Dave Schneider of The Zambonis.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “HOW DO YOU SPELL CHANNUKKAHH?”)

THE LEEVEES: (Singing) Simply inform me, how do you spell Hanukkah?

GARDNER: And we found we had been each Jewish, and we had been speaking about how, as children, across the Christmas vacation, it is powerful to be a Jewish child ‘trigger the music’s probably not there.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “APPLESAUCE VERSUS SOUR CREAM”)

THE LEEVEES: (Singing) Applesauce versus bitter cream.

SCHNEIDER: We made this report. We wrote it in per week, and we recorded it in per week.

GARDNER: It was a Hanukkah miracle – eight days.

(LAUGHTER)

SHAPIRO: You will discover the total Hanukkah live performance at npr.org/music.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “LATKE CLAN”)

THE LEEVEES: (Singing) Two candles lit. The vacation’s simply begun.

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