Sixpence None the Richer: Tiny Desk Concert

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Lars Gotrich | December 17, 2025 The Tiny Desk hasn't seen string lights, paper snowflakes and garlands in a while. The holiday show is a tradition we love — and have missed — at NPR Music, so when considering an artist to deck the halls of the office, I kept coming back to Sixpence None the Richer. So much of the holiday season, especially as we grow older, is about finding a balance between bright lights and dark nights. Sixpence None the Richer's music finds depth in the in-between, with buoyant melodies that twist and twirl, and lyrics underpinned by awe and wonder. "The Last Christmas" slowly waltzes the opening of this set, exploring the endings and beginnings of parenthood, inspired by the birth of guitarist Matt Slocum's first child. Leigh Nash introduces "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" as a holiday standard she listens to year-round, its depictions of angels — whom she brilliantly calls "alien-adjacent" — a source of comfort. Nash also shares "Eternal Gifts," from one of her solo records, her candied voice sitting between a lilt and a twang as pedal steel rumbles and recedes beneath. But you can't bring Sixpence None the Richer to the Tiny Desk and not ask the band to play some of its most defining work. "Melody of You," to me, is a modern psalm — and of a piece with Christmas, as a love letter from an artist to their creator. And then, of course, there's the song that keeps finding new life. Coming up on its 30 birthday, "Kiss Me" has taken the band around the wor

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