Family Reunion Songs

Family Reunion Songs can be played for dances, during registrations, during dinner or at any family reunion activity. As a matter of fact, dance and songs are one of the best activities you can have at a family reunion, especially if they are traditional to your family. It’s a great way to bring the pride and togetherness back into the family circle.

Music has a way of setting the mood of a reunion, even if the reunion is themed such as the music from the forties, fifties, or sixties. You can use the music and songs from your family’s history, if they are part of your family’s traditions. It adds to the atmosphere and makes everyone remember the “good old days.”

There are many activities you can do that are geared around music and songs, especially if you have a family song or a piece of music you always listen to when you’re together. You can make CDs of the songs and music at the reunion. Give everyone a copy, so they can relive their memories when they return home. You can have a video slideshow on the wall playing all the songs of your family or the theme your family reunion is all about. At the end of the reunion, you can give a copy to everyone, so they can relive the memories and pass them on to the next generation.

If your family doesn’t have traditional music, you can add some from the many genres of music such as Rock & Roll, R&B, Blues, Country, Jazz, Gospel, etc. Of course, there is always the dance contest or karaoke to be done at a family reunion. There’s nothing better than listening to the kids as they sing the songs they grew up with over the years.

Use your creativity to create a great set of music and songs that everyone will enjoy. You can break the singing contest into group of ages as well as individual families. The dance contests can also be put into families or age groups. It’s also the best time to teach the traditional dances and songs of your family to the younger generation.

Have little groups teach the younger generation the songs and dances they remember from their youth. It might inspire the younger generation to keep them going in their family groups. Music and song can make a family reunion a great one, even if you only play it in the background, there will be many who remember the songs and music when they were younger.

The stories they can tell by just listening to an old song will enhance the reunion with meaningful lyrics they remember from yesteryear.

Below is a is just a brief list of songs for the occassion.

• We Are Family – Sister Sledge
• Family Reunion – The O’Jays
• Everybody Shout Hello – Jeffry Friedbert and The Bossy Frog Band
• Drift Away – Dobie Gray
• Burnin’ Up – The Jonas Brothers
• Get The Party Started – Pink
• A Family is a Family – Skip West
• My Mother’s Eyes – Bette Midler
• Song for Mama – Boyz to Men
• Teach Your Children – CSN
• Precious Things – Jonathan Butler
• Chicago – Frank Sinatra
• Old Man – Neil Young
• Ready, Set, Don’t Go – Billy Ray Cyrus
• Keep it Together – Madonna
• Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler
• It’s a family affair – Sly and the Family stone
• The More We Get Together – Raffi
• My Hometown – Bruce Springsteen
• Mama – Soulfood Soundtrack
• Love and Happiness – Al Green
• Those Were the Days – Dolly Parton
• Reunited – Peaches and Herb
• My Father’s Eyes – Eric Clapton
• Coming Home (Album) – Lionel Richie
• I’ll Always Love My Mama – The Intruders
• Happy and You Know It – Vicki Winans
• Get Here If You Can – Oleta Adams
• Grandma’s Hands – Bill Withers of Gladys Knight And The Pips
• Homeward Bound – Simon and Garfunkel
• Living Years – Mike and the Mechanics
• Grandpa Tell us about The Good Ole Days – The Judds
• Family Tradition – Hank Williams Jr.
• Home Sweet Home – Motley Crue
• Who Says You Can’t Go Home – BonJovi
• Summer of ’69 – Bryan Adams
• Something To Be Proud Of – Montgomery Gentry
• My Front Porch Looking In – Lonestar
• Keep Your Head Up – Chaka Khan
• It’s a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
• Hello Everybody – Pigeon John
• When I was 17 – Frank Sinatra
• A Family Is What You Make It – Jim Rule
• Cat’s in the Cradle – Harry Chapin

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