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Tracy Lawrence is releasing his first Christmas album this fall. The as-yet-untitled disc will include several traditional holiday songs as well as a few originals. Tracy says that while the recording of the album was pretty simple, finding songs was not.
“I did weeks of song search going through the usual piles and piles [...]

The New Hyde Park/Garden City Park School Board meeting, held last Monday at the Manor Oaks School, was overflowing with concerned residents of the school district.
Clearly more than 250 people jammed every nook and corner of the main meeting room and as the evening wore on the temperature quickly rose to close to [...]

Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine draw on their jazz, blues, and folk influences for the Christmas album ‘Snow Angels’ (Oct. 2nd, Great Speckled Dog). The married couple, who are among PASTE’s “100 Greatest Living Songwriters”, applies their sultry style and witty lyrics to twelve refreshingly new, sophisticated and sometimes dark [...]

Thursday, August 23, 2007 – Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney and Brooks & Dunn contribute holiday songs to an upcoming Christmas compilation disc coming out in October.”Hear Something Country Christmas” drops Oct. 2 from SonyBMG with 14 songs. Six were recorded exclusively for this collection.
Underwood, who will release her own CD later in October, [...]

Boogie Woogie Holiday Show a Traditional Sellout
    COACHELLA, Calif., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ — Holiday traditions in the
Coachella Valley are much like holiday traditions around the country –
presents under the tree, twinkling lights, holiday parties and good cheer,
a sellout concert by rocker Brian Setzer…
    Back by popular demand for an incredible sixth straight year, Brian
Setzer [...]

Relient K - the band that brought you Five Score And Seven Years Ago, mmhmm, Two Lefts Don’t Make a Right…(But Three Do) and The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek - is heralding the holiday season in its own inimitable style with the release of its first-ever, full-length Christmas album: Let It Snow, [...]

For the first time in recorded history, Santa is asking for help with his sleigh. This is a great opportunity for kids and believers everywhere to help this Christmas — and you could end up with your name in lights around the world on Christmas Eve!

Santa has something to announce. And he will do it on the Merry Forums next week.