A personal journey through decades of Christmas music, from childhood midnight Mass to performances in retirement homes and wine bars, showing how music creates connection, joy and nostalgia.

As we head into December 2025, both Brenda Lee and Bobby Helms are in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Holiday 100 — for 1958’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and 1957’s “Jingle Bell Rock,” respectively.

We might be a little biased, but Billboard firmly believes music is the best part of the holiday season every year. That includes songs from all time periods, and certainly some of the Christmas canon ...

With all those Christmas cookies around, it might be a good idea to get your heart pumping this holiday season. The average American gains a pound or two between Thanksgiving and New Year’s — and ...

As the nights draw in and the first frosts begin to glisten, many of us are already looking forward to the warmth, light and ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Hear Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert guest artists, including Jane Seymour, Hugh Bonneville, Claire Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Santino Fontana and Tom Brokaw, read the Christmas story from Luke 2.

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...