Russ Lorenson‘s new Christmas CD released recently is titled “In the Holiday Spirit” and features the Kelly Park Big Band. The CD is a refreshing throwback to Christmas swing and the glitter that only big band can bring to Christmas. Most amazing is the fact that Lorenson pulls this off without the classics of Rudolph, […]
The past 24 hours have seen an extraordinary burst of Christmas spirit from shoppers and Christmas fans upset at what Simon Property Group, a major mall developer with almost 300 malls in the Untied States, is doing to traditional Christmas displays associated with Santa Claus. They have abandoned Christmas trees, the traditional colors green and […]
No sooner did we publish the story on Cashing in on Santa than we started receiving hundreds of emails from Christmas enthusiasts upset that a mall in North Carolina has replaced the Christmas tree as part of Santa’s set with a glacier. South Park Mall in Charlotte North Carolina says the change was to make […]
The commercialization of Christmas is reaching ever new heights as retailers and marketers continue to try to cash in on Santa. From movies to music this has always been the case but the presence of Santa in the marketplace has usually been utilized as a draw — bring in Santa for the kids and the […]
One of the modern trends of Christmas is the complaint against it: some people either just cannot stand Christmas altogether or simply do not like to see it too early. The media calls it “Christmas Creep”, an annual gripe about Christmas mostly showing up too early in stores or too soon on radio or television […]
Leave it to the King’s Singers to give us a different take on the very American Jingle Bells. The King’s Singers were originally founded way back in 1968 by a group of choral scholars from Cambridge. Generations before the popular a cappella groups of today this British ensemble has been delighting audiences worldwide. In this […]
All new for 2015 the Gardiner Sisters just released this nice a cappella version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. They must practice a lot:
