Pentatonix has released their eighth Christmas album on October 24th, sporting a new vibe and a new label. Titled Christmas in the City from Republic Records, this is the first released cut: The album is a mix of new originals and holiday favorites, all of which aim to celebrate the magic of Christmastime in New […]
Christmas in the 1980s is remembered as a time when toys went high tech, movies more liberally showed Christmas, music drifted away from solo singers to groups, and shopping at a mall was at its peak. In a way, it was a transitory time in moving Christmas from the days of offline magic before the […]
Christmas and Santa have long been associated with many animals. From reindeer to turkeys, from goats to geese, and from robins to partridges there are all kinds of wildlife to explore in the study of Santa and Christmas. Animals date right from the story of the Nativity. Legends abound of the stable animals speaking on […]
Christmas in July is not a 20th century invention, as many websites will falsely tell you. Posted on countless websites is the story of a North Carolina girl’s camp that “first” celebrated Christmas in July complete with Santa, trees and presents in the ancient year of 1933. Good story. And it appears to be true. […]
One of the largest Christmas trade shows, Christmas Expo, has been canceled just a little more than a month before it was scheduled to begin. Scheduled to begin July 16, 2025 in Dallas, the event cancellation was announced by organizers via their Facebook page on June 6th: Due to the ongoing up and down volatility […]
To modern audiences Bob Newhart was Papa Elf. He passed away recently at the age of 94. But for anyone who has followed comedy Bob Newhart has been a steady name for more than 60 years. In 1959 Newhart was just 30 years old, working as an accountant in his native Chicago. He gave himself […]
The Tabernacle Choir has published an all new arrangement of O Holy Night: This arrangement hails from their 2021 Christmas concert, a performance with limited access by the public and one that will not be shared on PBS until later in December of 2022. We have told the story of O Holy Night before. This […]
The world has too few songs of Thanksgiving. Christian group Crowder addresses that this year with this new song titled “Thanks Giver”: “Praise The One who’s making a saint out of this sinner, The One who’s turned me into this thanks giver.” Simple words, simple song, great message. Fresh off earning his fourth career GRAMMY […]
Today marks the halfway point to Christmas – a kind of merry hump day known as Leon Day. “Leon” is Noel spelled backwards, a clever little moniker first noted in the Christmas community online way back in the 1990s. Leon Day is also the gateway to Christmas-in-July – a month-long celebration of Christmas to bring […]
A classic Christmas song is one that marks a generation, gets repeated endlessly for decades to come, and never grows out of favor. Jingle Bells, written in the 1850s, is such a song. So is White Christmas. There will never be another classic Christmas song. Ever. It has become a modern Christmas tradition to hear […]
Go Tell It on the Mountain is a snappy new release from Home Free and rising country group Texas Hill: Tight harmonies, toe-tapping swing and the country feel puts this Christmas collaboration right in the wheelhouse for Home Free. It’s their best Christmas release in a couple of years. The recreated euphoric recording features Wakefield […]
The Thanksgiving Song is a new release from The Petersens, whose videos of holiday cheer are famous in the Christmas community: The Petersens are a family and they practice what they preach. This song, which celebrates how family enjoys each other at Thanksgiving, is reflective of how the Petersens really celebrate Thanksgiving. It is a […]
