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 […]
Pentatonix has released it’s sixth Christmas album, this one titled “Evergreen”. It features this spirited version of the classic Christmas song, I Saw Three Ships: “We wanted this album to be almost a little more folky and intimate and like almost singer songwriter-y, but still with the big moments,” Scott Hoying said. “After the lockdown, […]
