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1 day until Christmas… Alan Doyle, Bryan Adams and friends make Ron Hynes modern day classic shine.
3 days til Christmas… Doug White celebrates the simple pleasure of the season in Christmas Time Once More.
4 days til Christmas… mark the shortest day with this tune from Matthew Hender’s 2024 ep Winter Solstice.
5 days until Christmas… Check out Josh Janes take on Pleas Come Home For Christmas
Newfoundland
A young schoolteacher’s 1876 Christmas journey from St. John’s to Fogo reveals mummering, bonfires, and outport hospitality — a timeless Newfoundland Christmas story about belonging, tradition, and finding home in unexpected places.
On Christmas Eve, 1726, Paddy Kelly met something on the road near Keels — a black cat that seemed to growing larger with every step it took.
Instead of Christmas lights and carols, young men in Bonavista Bay had a different holiday tradition: bare-knuckled fights.
1 day until Christmas… Alan Doyle, Bryan Adams and friends make Ron Hynes modern day classic shine.
3 days til Christmas… Doug White celebrates the simple pleasure of the season in Christmas Time Once More.
4 days til Christmas… mark the shortest day with this tune from Matthew Hender’s 2024 ep Winter Solstice.
5 days until Christmas… Check out Josh Janes take on Pleas Come Home For Christmas
6 days til Christmas… Check out Jerry Stamp with King Nancy and their rockier take on the Wham! classic.
7 days until Christmas… Clare Follett takes a Joni Mitchell classic and makes it her own.
8 days to Christmas… Rum Ragged’s rendition of “Jingles The Christmas Cat” is good Christmas fun.
9 days… if you love Christmas music with jazz charm — Beep Bop’s for you.
10 days til Christmas…. Clint Curtis and the Reflectors deliver an upbeat, rock-edged take on Let It Snow that feels like an appropriate soundtrack for a stormy winter day.
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Stranded on a barren island just after Christmas, two men built a boat from scraps, rusty nails, and ice—then trusted it with their lives.