Christmas Music in the News

Lacy J. Dunn lives in New York now, but she’s a North Little Rock girl.

St. Mary of the Lakes School’s 6th grade was chosen by B101 as a finalist in their Christmas Choir Competition. They sang an original song written by the school’s music teacher, Toni Burdey.

What happened to the tradition that yielded the likes of "I Will Always Love You" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"?

Christmas in Victoria is marked with many traditions: the annual lighting of the downtown courthouse, Victoria's Christmas parade and Northside Baptist's Christmas pageant.

She had to cancel her Wolverhampton show in December after losing her voice but folk singer Kate Rusby is back to full health and ready to take the city by storm.

Statistics Canada says Canada's retailers suffered a weak final month during last year's holiday shopping season, with December retail sales edging down 0.2 per cent to $38.6 billion.

The vast majority of Americans are a few missteps and a bit of bad luck away from facing abject poverty.

Rigged with cheerful Christmas lights, the big trucks are back in Surrey this weekend to help raise money for charity.

Voices raised in song: performers from the Burnaby Lyric Opera Society transform an evening meal into a festive season event at the Pan Pacific Hotel’s Opera Angels Heard on High Nights held weekends during the month of December.

It was a very merry Christmas for adult contemporary/soft rock WRRM-FM (WARM 98.5) and Christian WAKW-FM (STAR 93.3). Again both stations doubled their ratings playing Christmas music, according to the Arbitron “holiday book” (Dec. 8-Jan. 4). WRRM98 jumped to #2 with a 9.5% audience share. It was #8 with a 4.4% share in November. STAR 93.3 [...]