Lauren Daigle Christmas Songs With Preservation Hall Jazz Band Mark New Label Debut

Two old favourites, played the New Orleans way, opened the holiday season for Lauren Daigle. She has recorded “Sleigh Ride” and “Go Tell It on the Mountain” with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, uDiscover Music and RELEVANT Magazine both report, and the sound carries the second-line spirit of the city straight into Christmas. These are new recordings of standards, not new compositions, and RELEVANT calls them a pair of old favourites with a New Orleans accent.

The recordings mark a new chapter for Daigle, because they are her label debut with Interscope, Capitol and CCMG, uDiscover Music reports. RELEVANT puts it the same way, calling the songs her first release on Capitol, Interscope and CCMG, the label group she recently joined. No previous label is named in either opened source, and none is named here, and CCMG is not expanded beyond what the sources say.

Daigle herself framed the project as a celebration of place and of new relationships, in words from the release quoted by uDiscover Music. “Coming from New Orleans, bringing together different musical styles with a little second line spirit feels like a celebration of new relationships, fresh perspectives and the joy of sharing my music with others,” she said. The quote is kept short here, because the music, not the press release, is the point.

One wording trap in the coverage is worth avoiding, because two outlets describe her roots differently. uDiscover Music calls her a New Orleans native in its lede, while other coverage calls her a Louisiana native, and the release wording points to Louisiana roots. This article calls her a Louisiana native with Louisiana roots, and describes the New Orleans sound as coming through Preservation Hall, where the band has kept the city's brass tradition alive.

Lauren Daigle Sleigh Ride Go Tell It on the Mountain Vinyl

Fans who want the songs on record will not have long to wait for a physical edition. A 7-inch vinyl edition of the two tracks is scheduled for 27 November, both opened sources report, and RELEVANT adds that the date is the day after Thanksgiving.

For listeners who recieve the songs online, the honest dating is less tidy than a single headline would suggest. Coverage of the release appeared on 2 November 2026 in uDiscover Music and RELEVANT, while several other outlets had dated the label announcement to Friday 30 October. This article therefore says the songs have been released and were reported on 2 November, without asserting one single digital release date that the opened sources do not settle.

No sales, streams or chart positions for the new songs are given in either opened source, and none are claimed here. The songs are presented as recordings to hear, not as chart news, and the tour dates below are limited to what the two opened reports verify. That restraint matters, because Christmas releases attract plenty of confident claims, and not all of them survive a second look.

Behold Christmas Tour Ryman Auditorium December

The Behold Christmas Tour begins with two performances at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on 2 and 3 December, uDiscover Music reports. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band joins Daigle for two shows at New Orleans' Saenger Theatre, and the tour is scheduled to conclude in Orlando at the Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, uDiscover Music reports, without giving an Orlando date. RELEVANT says the tour opens on 2 December at the Ryman, with stops in New Orleans and Orlando to follow.

RELEVANT also describes the tour as returning this December for its 10th annual run, a claim that appears only in RELEVANT and is attributed to RELEVANT here. No fuller tour date list is given here, because further exact dates appear only in search snippets, not in the two opened full texts.

The release background helps explain why two Christmas songs can carry so much weight. Her debut album How Can It Be, from 2015, topped Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart, as did Behold: A Christmas Collection, Look Up Child and Lauren Daigle, according to the release. “You Say” spent 132 weeks atop Billboard's Hot Christian Songs chart and reached number 29 on the Hot 100, according to the release, and Look Up Child reached number 3 on the Billboard 200.

That chart position is described in the release as the highest for a Christian album by a woman in more than 20 years. Daigle has won two Grammy Awards, including for the album and for “You Say”, according to the release, and those claims are not upgraded here into independently checked Billboard data. RELEVANT adds that her first Christmas album, Behold, came out in 2016 and climbed to number 29 on the Billboard 200.

RELEVANT also notes that Preservation Hall joined Daigle last December for a holiday medley at the CMA Country Christmas special, which makes this year's pairing feel less like a one-off and more like a friendship. Together, they make Christmas sound both old and newly alive.

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When the vinyl lands on 27 November and the Ryman doors open on 2 December, listeners will hear for themselves whether two familiar songs can still surprise them. The early signs point that way, with a brass band behind a Louisiana voice, and a Christmas season that, for Daigle at least, has already begun.

But the most surprising part of this story is yet to come — keep reading.