Category: Album: Christmas Carols Old & New
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Ave Maria
Special thanks to Andy Williams for making this song sound so easy to sing that I…
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Silent Night
The words to this timeless classic were written by Father Joseph Mohr, a priest in the…
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Oh Holy Night
This song was not well received by the religious ‘authorities’ of the mid-nineteenth century. One French…
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Miriam
I first heard Pierce Pettis perform Miriam around 1992 and was stunned by the song’s poignant…
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O Come All Ye Faithful
Oh come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant,Oh come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem.Come and…
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I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day
When I read the words to this song to my daughter, Kate, she insisted I include…
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What Child Is This?
In arranging this song, I wanted to capture something of the mystery and danger of the…
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Away In A Manger
I believe this was the first song I sang as a solo in public. It was…
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It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Many consider this song the first great American Christmas carol. If you think it is about…
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The World Was In His Hands
The seemingly fragile and ordinary mortality of the infant Jesus has always gripped my imagination. Really,…
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The First Nowell
Nowell is an early English spelling of noel, which itself is an even older French word…