SPECIAL HOLIDAY PROGRAMS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18
7:00 pm — Other Voices: Tinsel Tales 2011
Another collection of the best and most requested holiday stories. Joy, hope, and childhood memories overflow as NPR voices, past and present, tell stories of the season. Hosted by Lynn Neary.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19
9:00 am — Holiday Music
Seasonal sounds all day during WKSU classical music, continuing through the holidays.
7:00 pm — An Eary Music Christmas from Harmonia
Seasonal music from the distant past and through the ages, featuring a rich selection of well-known holiday vocal music, including selections from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and a variety of traditional hymns, carols and song.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20
7:00 pm — Hanukkah Lights 2011
A perennial NPR favorite, Hanukkah Lights features Hanukkah stories and memoirs written by acclaimed authors expressly for the show, as read by NPR's Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22
7:00 pm — Other Voices: The Messiah Phenomenon
Evans Mirageas welcomes guests including soprano Renee Fleming, and conductors Nicholas McGegan and Lawrence Cummings. They tell the story behind Handel's Messiah and play sections of the work.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23
7:00 pm — American Routes Holiday Show
Host Nick Spitzer is your guide through two hours of roots-flavored holiday music and interviews.
9:00 pm — A Holiday Music Tour with Judy Collins
Judy Collins teams up with Trout Fishing in America, Tish Hinojosa, Ian Anderson, The Blind Boys of Alabama with Tom Waits, and Jesse Colin Young for favorites and new holiday selections.
10:00 pm — Eddie's Attic Holiday Radio Show
Eddie Owen, founder of the renowned Atlanta folk venue, welcomes such noted singer-songwriters as Chuck Brodsky, Kate Campbell, John McCutcheon, Eliza Gilkyson, and Pierce Pettis.
11:00 pm — A Carolina Christmas from Biltmore Estates
Kathy Mattea joins the Carolinas choral ensemble, VOX, and The Beggar Boys for sacred holiday music, African-American spirituals, Celtic jigs, and folk favorites.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24
12:00 am — Judy Collins Peace on Earth Holiday Folk Tour
Collins introduces new holiday tunes (and new versions of old favorites), from less well-known American folk performers.
10:00 am — Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Aired live from King's College Chapel in Cambridge, this program blends scripture, song and readings in a unique celebration of the birth of Jesus.
11:30 am — Classical Christmas Music
The WKSU classical music hosts offer a selection of music to make the holiday merrier.
3:00 pm — The Splendid Table
Food writer Edward Behr, Andrew Schloss with some non-alcoholic suggestions for the holiday and British writer Nigel Slater with his take on the holiday meal.
6:00 pm — Christmas on A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor and company celebrate the holidays with music and stories.
8:00 pm — Seasonal Folk Music with Jim Blum
Jim surveys this year's new crop of holiday CDs, and plays some old favorites, too.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25
6:00 am — Other Voices: The Messiah Phenomenon
Evans Mirageas welcomes guests including soprano Renee Fleming, and conductors Nicholas McGegan and Lawrence Cummings. They tell the story behind Handel's Messiah and play sections of the work.
10:00 am — Christmas on A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor and company celebrate the holidays with music and stories.
12:00 pm — A Baroque Era Christmas
David Roden presents the sounds of Christmastide in 17th and 18th century France, Germany, Italy, and England.
2:00 pm — Glad Tidings
Holiday music old and new is interwoven with stories, poetry, and short seasonal scripture segments performed by ensembles at Brigham Young University.
3:00 pm — Noels and Carols from the Old World
Highlights from a beloved Apollo's Fire holiday program captured at St Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland in 1998.
3:30 pm — In Performance: Christmas in Northeast Ohio
Holiday music from such ensembles as The Cleveland Orchestra and Apollo's Fire, including excerpts from Handel's Messiah.
7:00 pm — The Thistle & the Shamrock: Fiona's Festive Greetings
Join host Fiona Ritchie for a blend of acoustic music for the holiday season, handpicked from her treasure trove of recordings and readings.
8:00 pm — A Celtic Christmas
As neighbors gather round the fire with stories, songs, and dancing, storyteller Tomaseen Foley recreates a night before Christmas in the remote parish of Teampall an Ghleanntain in the west of Ireland.
9:00 pm — Joy Ungar & Molly Mason: The Pleasures of Winter
These versatile musicians, famed for their collaboration with Ken Burns (including PBS's The Civil War), present an hour of acoustic rarities, swing jazz, English songs, fiddle tunes, and original composition.
10:00 pm — A Winter Solstice with Helicon
The folk trio continues its tradition of celebrating the winter solstice with their unique arrangements of Christmas carols, Jewish tunes, and traditional music from around the world.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30
11:00 pm — A Season's Griot
Madafo Lloyd Wilson takes us through an hour-long Kwanzaa celebration in story and song.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31
10:00 pm — A Prairie Home Companion Hawaiian New Year's Eve
Garrison Keillor touches down in Hawaii for a 3-hour celebration, including a countdown to midnight, with guests Heather Masse and slack key guitar and ukulele master Led Kaapana.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 1
12:00 pm — New Year's Day from Vienna
Mariss Jansons will conduct from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna as the Vienna Philharmonic presents its traditional festive program of waltzes and polkas.
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