You’ve sung them while clutching cups of hot cocoa. You’ve heard them played in shopping malls. But do you know how some of ...

A&M/UMe has released Carpenters’ Christmas Once More, an all-new Christmas collection featuring 16 timeless Carpenters ...

The poet Christina Rosetti did not originally intend her poem to become a hymn or carol. She wrote it originally as a response to a request from a magazine for a new Christmas poem. It was ...

The Christmas hymns, anthems and arrangements we call “carols“ actually date from the 19th century, although many of them draw on tunes and words from earlier times. Carols are constantly ...

The Appalachian Christmas carol “Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head” was collected from Hardin County in central Kentucky in the early 20th century but, as with so many other folk carols and hymns ...

Poland really loves its Christmas ... songs really are. This widespread admiration for carols isn’t something new or recent, but rather a continuation of a state that began hundreds of years ago.

The music industry, according to The New York Times, is “hoping Halloween can be the new Christmas”: to make October into an ...

Taking nine biblical passages about the Christmas story and interspersing them with rousing carols and hymns, his intention was (at least in part) to get his congregation out of the pub.

classic Christmas carols and hymns. Traditional Irish musical numbers and elements are woven throughout the program in honor of Hilty’s and McDonough’s shared heritage. “My experience with ...

His first biography, Walking on Air, was published in 1986, but he's since written an autobiography with Darren Henley, as well as two books detailing his favourite hymns and Christmas Carols. Aside ...