Piano Guys with Placido Domingo Perform Silent Night
Wow. Can it get any better than the Piano Guys with Placido Domingo? Here they combine to perform Silent Night with a children’s choir and the sound is just exquisite. This is Christmas:
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If I Were George Bailey
Shortly before Christmas last year I dropped by my parents’ house and caught my Dad watching the last half hour of It’s a Wonderful Life. As we watched the peak of George’s crisis we got into a conversation about what we would do if either one of us were George Bailey. What a great question! […]
More than a Half Million Lights on One Tree
Australia isn’t to be outdone by anyone in the world when it comes to Christmas. There’s no snow, few natural Christmas trees, and little that actually originates in Australia when it comes to Christmas. But they celebrate it big time and they want the world to know it. From their Lego trees to their floating […]
Australia Loves Their Lego Christmas
It is summer in Australia. So it might be the perfect place to construct a ginormous Christmas tree made only of Legos. This time lapse video shows the process of putting the tree and its ornaments together in what has become a festive tradition in the city of Melbourne:
Christmas Haters
There is a whole new generation of Christmas lovers out there and they face things a lot of us older Christmas fanatics have never had to endure: the Christmas Hater. The following video is from a very popular YouTube star, Colleen Ballinger, who is talented, funny and — it turns out — a Christmas lover. […]
Johnson Light Show Fires Up in San Antonio
The Johnson Family Christmas Lights are pretty famous. They were a hit in San Antonio long before being featured on the Great Christmas Light Fight. This display likes to bill itself as “non-traditional” and right away it smacks the viewer as something very different. They explain: There are no inflatables, characters, blow molds, or other […]
Stevie Wonder and Andra Day Sing Someday at Christmas
This Christmas season is already carrying dark marks of distress. From rumored wars to the Pope’s comments about Christmas being a charade to protesters taking down Christmas trees it seems there’s an edge to this season we have not seen in a very, very long time. Perhaps one of the lost messages of Christmas was […]
The First Christmas Tree in England
It was the British royal family’s German connections which led to the introduction of the Christmas tree custom in England. King George III’s wife, Queen Charlotte — who was of German descent– arranged for a great yew tree to be erected inside the Queen’s Lodge at Windsor on December 25 1800. A party of children […]
