The JCC in Sherman will host a tribute concert featuring songs from folk legends Peter, Paul, & Mary on Saturday, 24 January ...
Paul McCartney is setting the record straight on the rumors surrounding his hit Christmas song. The former Beatle addressed theories that his 1979 holiday tune “Wonderful Christmastime” encourages ...
Mary Hopkin stepped from obscurity into the circles of the biggest act in music, almost by accident. It led her to record the smash single “Those Were The Days”, which became a monster hit in 1968.
The show will go on Wednesday in Del Mar, rain or shine, for the 47th annual edition of award-winning guitarist and composer Peter Sprague’s free Christmas Eve concert. It will feature more than a ...
Here’s the good news: There’s a whole world of modern Christmas music that exists outside of what restaurants and retail stores play ad nauseam starting Nov. 1. Now for the bad news: That world has ...
In November 1979, Paul McCartney was working on a special new album, McCartney II, which would mark the second-greatest shift in his career. But before he released the album, he gave fans a little ...
Chris Rea, the British singer-songwriter whose gravelly voice and holiday anthem “Driving Home for Christmas” became a seasonal tradition, has died at 74 following a short illness, BBC reports. His ...
I think the song is a perfectly sentimental jamboree—repetition as a remedy for the innocuous—and I don’t take its opposition too seriously. Like the Beatle naysayers that still dare walk among us, I ...
“White Christmas” might be the best-selling Christmas song ever, but the song’s backstory has less to do with tidings of comfort and joy than it does with the tragedy of loss and war. Written by ...