Comprised of eleven tracks from some of New York City's finest emerging artists plus their collective cover of "Happy XMas (War Is Over)," A Holiday Benefit, Vol II is a charity CD spanning the sacred (Brent Shuttleworth’s "The God In You”), the profane (Derek James & Kyle Paas’ “Mele Kalilkimaka”), plus plenty of rockin’ holiday tracks in-between (Bryan Dunn’s “Father Christmas”). All proceeds from A Holiday Benefit, Vol. II will be donated to 826NYC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. A Holiday Benefit, Vol. II participants first gathered at Kyle Paas and Jeffrey Swart’s Kingsland Studios in Brooklyn, spending an October Sunday afternoon together recording their cover of the 1971 John Lennon classic. Each was then tasked with covering a favorite holiday tune, or penning a new one. The results are dec...