Christmas Carols in the Philippines is part of the traditions. Filipinos called it "Caroling." Once Simbang Gabi starts, the children carolers or even church choirs will be singing Christmas carols hopping from house to house. It is the signal that Christmas is just around the corner.
The carolers sings the traditional English Christmas carols such as Jingle Bells and Silent Night. While, some of them also sings the traditional Filipino Christmas songs. Such favorites are Ang Pasko ay Sumapit and Pasko na Naman.
Christmas carolers have their own gimmicks and most of them use their own handmade musical treatments like the stringed flattened bottle caps used as tambourines, empty milk cans used as drums and a lot more. There are those who all wore red and looked like Santa Claus while singing, there are those who just played instruments and did not sing.
Right around Christmas time, small bands of musicians rove the streets in Filipino cities looking for donations for their services.