We have reached another milestone in the countdown to Christmas: there are about 100 days left until Black Friday. For more than a century Black Friday has been viewed as an unofficial beginning to the Christmas shopping season. For all the hype and bluster of Christmas creep the real serious marketing and buying and selling […]
Vocal Point, the BYU men’s group that has enjoyed so much success these past several years, has a new Christmas album coming October 9th. Those unfamiliar with Vocal Point are in for a treat. “Vocal Point’s mission statement is ‘to enlighten the hearts and minds of those within the sound of our voice unto the […]
~ Winter was a time of celebration to pre-Christian Romans and they decorated fir trees in honor of this seasonal change. ~ The use of a Christmas wreath as a decoration on your front door, mantel or bay window symbolizes a sign of welcome and long life to all who enter. ~Today poinsettias are the […]
Christmas of 1826 was snowy, cold and lonely for the cadets of West Point. Though called “men” they were really teenage boys — some as young as 17 — and they wanted to celebrate Christmas. Young Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederate States of America, was among them. But West Point then, as it […]
Weather prognosticators who can see into the future say the winter of 2015 in the US and Canada will be epic — with a white Christmas for everyone. The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which hits bookshelves and supermarket check out counters in about a week, says that anywhere that gets snow this year can count on […]
By request we re-post this Cloverton version of Hallelujah — a Christmas Hallelujah. This song is very well known but this moving version burst on the scene last year to wide acclaim: Leonard Cohen’s 1984 tune has been covered by the likes of Willie Nelson, Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley. Buckley’s 1994 version may be […]
Quick trivia question: what group has sold more Christmas albums than any other in the past 30 years? That would be Mannheim Steamroller, that improbable group of classic rock/classical/baroque combo that makes music like no other. Steamroller hung around the fringes of popular music for nearly a decade until they released their first Christmas album […]
The world’s first Christmas movie dates back to 1898, an age well before even popular silent films shown in movie houses. Directed by George Albert Smith, a British pioneer of film making, this wonderful bit of film was considered a technological wonder of the time and to this day remains a cherished look back at […]
LeAnn Rimes has officially named her new Christmas album Today is Christmas and has announced a new tour to support it to launch December 4th, 2015. “I wait for Christmas all year long; it’s my absolute favorite holiday;” Rimes says in a statement. “I can’t wait to share some of my new, original Christmas songs […]
Two Christmas specials of the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour Variety Show dating from the 1970s will be made available on DVD this fall. The shows originally aired in December 1969 and December 1970, and featured a mix of sketches and musical performances. Among Campbell’s guest on the episodes were singers Anne Murray and Jerry Reed, […]
