--- title: Madonna Jimmy Fallon The Roots Play Holiday on Classroom Instruments description: Take a holiday, right in your cubicle canonical: https://time.com/3817086/madonna-holiday-roots-jimmy-fallon/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-10T14:02:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:36.047Z og:title: Watch Madonna and The Roots Play 'Holiday' on Classroom Instruments og:description: Take a holiday, right in your cubicle og:url: https://time.com/3817086/madonna-holiday-roots-jimmy-fallon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Madonna and The Roots Play 'Holiday' on Classroom Instruments twitter:description: Take a holiday, right in your cubicle twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Madonna and The Roots Play 'Holiday' on Classroom Instruments by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 10, 2015 2:02 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 10, 2015 2:02 PM UTC One of the best bits that Jimmy Fallon and The Roots regularly engage in is taking mega-hits and playing them on classroom instruments. They’ve done it with Meghan Trainor’s [“All About That Bass”](http://time.com/3273928/jimmy-fallon-meghan-trainor-the-roots-perform-all-about-that-bass/), performed [“Let it Go”](http://time.com/12241/watch-jimmy-fallon-idina-menzel-and-the-roots-sing-let-it-go/) with Idina Menzel and made [One Direction](http://time.com/3645500/one-direction-santa-claus-is-coming-to-town-jimmy-fallon/) (back when [Zayn Malik](http://time.com/3758379/one-direction-zayn-malik-social-media/) was still in the band, of course) sing along to “Santa Claus is Coming To Town.” Last night they outdid themselves, though, conscripting none other than Madonna to perform one of her classic hits on classroom instruments. The OG Material Girl sat front and center, singing along and manning the whistle, while helping the Roots and Fallon transformed her poppy song into an even sunnier tune. Give yourself a little holiday at work by checking out their performance, because it’s downright fun and less frightening than her [new “Ghosttown” video. ](http://time.com/3814076/madonna-ghosttown-rebel-heart-video-terrence-howard/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3817086/madonna-holiday-roots-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3817086/madonna-holiday-roots-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Watch Madonna and The Roots Play 'Holiday' on Classroom Instruments","datePublished":"2015-04-10T14:02:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:36.047Z","description":"Take a holiday, right in your cubicle","url":"https://time.com/3817086/madonna-holiday-roots-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Music","jimmy fallon","Madonna","The Tonight Show","The Roots"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3817086/madonna-holiday-roots-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Watch Madonna and The Roots Play 'Holiday' on Classroom Instruments"}}]}] ```