November 6, 2026, Kat releases her seventh studio album, Have Your Merry Christmas With Me, a lush, witty, and deeply romantic holiday record that unfolds like the soundtrack to a classic Christmas romantic comedy. As composer and arranger, Kat conceived the album’s musical world from the ground up, bringing her singular perspective to beloved standards while contributing two original songs, including the title track and the dreamlike “Hush! There’s a Falling Snow.” Sensual bossa nova, swinging jazz and gospel, tropical ’60s cocktail-party sounds, and classic pop orchestration mingle throughout the record, alongside an achingly soulful reinvention of Allen Toussaint’s “It’s Raining” as “It’s Snowing.” The result is at once nostalgic and distinctly personal—a cinematic Christmas world shaped by Kat’s lifelong love of songwriting, jazz, classic Hollywood, and the Great American Songbook.

Kat Edmonson — vocals, whistling
Roy Dunlap — piano, organ, whistling
Matt Munisteri — guitar, Puerto Rican cuatro, whistling
Paul Meyers — guitar
Bob Hart — bass, congas
Mark McLean — drums, percussion, whistling
Max Liebman — whistling

Have Your Merry Christmas With Me (3:59)
(Kat Edmonson)

That’s What I Want For Christmas (3:57)
(Earl E. Lawrence)

I’d Like to Hitch a Ride With Santa Claus (2:29)
(Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)

Last Christmas (4:05)
(George Michael)

It’s Snowing (4:21)
(Naomi Neville [Allen Toussaint], with additional lyrics by Kat Edmonson)

Jingle Bells (3:27)
(James Lord Pierpont; originally entitled “The One Horse Open Sleigh”)

Hush! There’s a Falling Snow (2:37)
(Kat Edmonson)

We Wish You the Merriest (2:08)
(Les Brown)

Santa Baby (5:26)
(Philip Springer, Tony Springer, Joan Javits)

Christmas Time Is Here (3:38)
(Vince Guaraldi, Lee Mendelson)

Blue Christmas (4:07)
(Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson)

Hark! The Herald Angels Swing (3:20)
(Based on the Christmas carol “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” with text by Charles Wesley and a melody adapted from Felix Mendelssohn’s Festgesang zum Gutenbergfest; additional lyrics by Kat Edmonson)

All songs arranged by Kat Edmonson with Bob Hart

Produced by Kat Edmonson and Frank Filipetti

Recorded and mixed by Frank Filipetti
Assisted by Max Liebman
Additional assistance by Paul Antonell

Recorded June 3–5, 2026, at Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, New York

Mastered by Jeff Lipton and Costanza Tinti at Peerless Mastering in Boston, Massachusetts

Art design by Jamie Breiwick — B Side Graphics

Photography by Lauren Desberg