pune carollers are back to spread the joy of the season following the ageold tradition of going doortodoor or areatoarea and performing christmas carols after two yearsalexander fernandes founder christ bearers a gospel band from wakad said we carry a keyboard and guitar with fivesix singers and perform in common spaces of housing societies where residents gather to hear us starting with our vishalnagar we shall visit hinjewadi baner and balewadi with classic carols we perform lesser known ones like little baby jesus and good news this year we added some songs composed by us like christmas rock and rollkarl young secretary all india anglo indian association pune branch said our group has about 14 members consisting of college students young working professionals and teenagers usually after 6pm they meet in a societys garden or visit homes of senior members to perform carols and hand them small gift hampers they cover areas with an angloindian population such as wanowrie fatimanagar and undri this year our carollers visited an old age home in camp too they perform 1012 songs per session with traditional carols like silent night and o holy night and popular boney m versions while jingle bells remains the alltime favouritecarollers are making an effort to add regional christmas songs in their lineup father malcolm sequeira from st annes catholic church said every day we go to modikhana or camp napier road salisbury park or bhavani peth covering 67 spots in each area depending on the crowd we sing 57 songs in english hindi and marathi a hindi crowd favourite is khushiyon ka sandesha laya masiha aaya in marathi jagata mata jagati ala is popular there is a lot of excitement after two years and the feeling is reciprocated by the audience the aim is to spread the joy among all communitiesnirmala sakhare a member of el shaddai methodist church talegaon dabhade said our choir group for carolling comprises 2025 members of all ages singing english marathi and hindi hymns we have gone to dehu road ravet and talegaon we also distributed blankets to roadside dwellers