Merry Christmas Radio

Aug. 25, 2008 — The music industry traditionally gets its best sales during the fourth quarter of the year when people buy albums as holiday gifts for their friends and family, so record companies often plan best-of albums just in time to serve as stocking stuffers.
Rascal Flatts is pretty much guaranteeing yuletide sales by [...]

“A Night Before Christmas” due in stores September 23, 2008
As the seasons change and the end of the year draws near, even the most forward thinking and cutting-edge artists take a nostalgic moment to count their blessings. Spyro Gyra has spent more than three decades pushing the boundaries and definitions of jazz beyond the [...]

Sheryl Crow’s Christmas album, “Home for Christmas,” will be in HALLMARK stores on September 30th.

Thu, Aug 21st 2008 12:29 pm EST
By Allison Reitz

The holidays may still be a few months off, but seasonal staple Mannheim Steamroller wants fans to start thinking Christmas. The contemporary music group has announced plans for its annual Christmas tour, which features daily performances throughout the month of November in Branson, MO. A second touring [...]

Award Winning Actress and Singer – A Lovely Way To Spend Christmas – Available October 14, 2008 NEW YORK, Aug. 21

NEW YORK, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ — On October 14, 2008 Sony BMG Masterworks
will release KRISTIN CHENOWETH’s new Christmas CD A LOVELY WAY TO SPEND
CHRISTMAS. For her third album, Chenoweth covers a wide range of [...]

By Patrick Luce Aug 20, 2008, 15:32 GMT
Rocker Melissa Etheridge is set to release a holiday album titled ‘A New Thought For Christmas’ on Sept. 30th through Island Records.
 
From an Island Records press release:
What if someone made a Christmas album for everybody else? That’s exactly what Melissa Etheridge has done. Working alongside her producer [...]

Nearly seventy years of age, and still bustling around with the energy of a spring chicken, Kenny Rogers has charted out a Christmas Tour, which gets on the road in November. The country music icon will travel across eastern US and a few Canadian provinces in the month of August, before his 27th annual [...]

By Kenneth Jones

Irving Berlin’s White Christmas will open at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre Nov. 23, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, the producers announced on Aug. 19.
Tickets will go on sale exclusively to American Express card members starting Aug. 20 through Sept. 17 (visit broadway.yahoo.com). Tickets will go sale to the general public on Sept. 21.
The musical [...]