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The magnetism of the year-end holidays goes hand in hand with the evocative musical output that has long defined pianist, composer and producer Jim Brickman and the much-lauded musician has done it again with his new recording for the holiday season, “HOMECOMING.”
Brickman who was recently crowned as the #1 Charting Artist at the Adult [...]

Port St. Lucie, Florida has made Christmas headlines for years as the city that cannot grow a Christmas tree. Over the past decade the city has attempted several times to plant a tree they could hang lights and decorations on every Christmas season, as tradition has dictated. But they can’t keep a Christmas tree [...]

For the second time, the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is considering a ban on religious symbols during the end-of-the-year holiday season.
According to the Port of Seattle’s Holiday Decorations Advisory Committee, the airport is expected to be decked out in festival attire during the holidays, but officials will not include religious symbols in the festivities.
A Christian [...]

Even as Brian Setzer tours the country in a reunited presentation of the Stray Cats, Christmas is on his mind.
The Brian Setzer Orchestra is a grand holiday tradition and due to their runaway Christmas success Surfdog Records will rerelease their chart-topping Christmas classics ‘Dig That Crazy Christmas’ (”undeniably cool” – Chicago Sun Times) [...]

She’s 42, married to Elvis Costello, and mother of twin boys born less than a year ago. And she has a new Christmas album due out this fall.
She is, of course, Diana Krall.
Precious few details have been provided for Krall’s new Christmas CD but if past holiday offerings are any indication it will be a real [...]

XM’s gone completely crazy with the unveiling a new “Christmas In July” microchannel on XM Live (ch 120), set to air from July 25th through July 26th.
Featuring classic holiday hits from Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, the Ronettes, Amy Grant, Harry Connick, Jr., and many other yule log favorites, the “Christmas In July” channel [...]

Even in the wake of a nervous Internet radio environment Christmas Music 247 is expanding by adding a new Christmas country music station for 2007. It was only three weeks ago that Christmas Music 247 shut down their all-instrumental Christmas station in advance of an expected ruling against Internet broadcasters that would have raised [...]

Another school board wants to cancel a traditional Christmas concert, move it to the end of January and call it a “Winter Concert” out of fear of offending non-Christian citizens.
The New Hyde Park School Board of Long Island, New York cast a split vote on the issue in a meeting on July 9th. Under [...]