Best Christmas Movie Music Soundtracks and CDs

Christmas is a sensual experience: Christmas smells like pine and cinnamon. Christmas tastes like smoked ham and marzipan. Christmas music lifts us out of the dreary and into the divine. Here are Christmas holiday movie soundtracks that will delight your senses. I don't think that it would be possible for me to list all my favorite Christmas songs. But I can direct you to some glorious Christmas movie soundtracks. For my suggestion of "A Christmas Carol," I'll just add that when I wrote this, I couldn't find the soundtrack. The composer Nick Bicat responded, saying it was available from his website http://www.nickbicat.com/, as is his "Scarlet Pimpernel" CD and other scores he's composed. Best Christmas Movie Music Soundtracks and CDs

Grand Haven Michigan's Musical Fountain

Grand Haven, Michigan boasts the World's Largest Musical Fountain, a system of sprinklers and colored lights set to music. Another aspect of the show comes at Christmas--a musical narrated nativity show. Children snuggled in winter gear and car seats, eyes shining. Windows rolled down despite winter cold, to hear our beloved Grand Haven Musical Fountain narrate the Bible Christmas story. Giant nativity figures cascade down Dewey Hill. Christmas lights twinkle and Christmas carols tinkle. A larger than life Christmas tableau with a huge star to light the way. This is a favorite Sachteleben holiday memory: one that we have been enjoying for over two decades now. Grand Haven Michigan's Musical Fountain

Straight Edge XXX Teaches Clean Living, Abstinence Through Punk Music

In 1980, a punk rock band called Minor Threat, wrote a song called 'Straight Edge' in response to rampant self-indulgent lifestyles associated with punk rock. Straight Edge has blossomed into a healthy lifestyles sub-culture promoting abstinence, vegan, drug-free lifestyles. The notorious black X or XXX icon worn as a tattoo or design on the back of the hand symbolizes a Straight Edge member's resistance to drugs, alcohol, promiscuous sex and meat-based diets.

Straight Edge members commit to a five-pronged pledge of 'Discipline, Resistance, Commitment, Conviction, Persistence '. Under this motto, members also refrain from eating meat and animal by-products (follow a vegetarian or vegan diet) and practice clean lifestyles, swearing off from promiscuous sex, drugs and alcohol, including cigarettes and caffeine.  Straight Edge XXX Teaches Clean Living, Abstinence Through Punk Music 

Gnarls Barkley Cee Lo Green + Danger Mouse 'Crazy' #1

Gnarls Barkley's Cee Lo Green and Danger Mouse Song 'Crazy' Named Rolling Stone's #1 for Decade
Gnarls Barkley is the nom-de-chanteur of rapper and Goodie Mob band member Cee Lo Green, aka Cee Lo and Brian Burton, known by his stage name of Danger Mouse. Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple is cerebral hip-hop and neo-funk.
Read More

Jackie Evancho Youtube AGT Sweetheart is New Jenny Lind

Jackie Evancho 10 Year-Old Classical Crossover Singer and Youtube AGT Sensation: Next Jenny Lind
Jackie Evancho, 10-year old classical crossover soprano from Pittsburg, PA is singing her way into the hearts of music lovers in her Youtube videos and recent entrance on the America's Got Talent. Is Jackie the next 'Swedish Nightingale' Jenny Lind?
Read More

Matisyahu Hasidic Jewish Reggae Singer

Matisyahu Hasidic Jewish Reggae Rapper Blends Roots, Faith, Music
Matthew Paul Miller, better known in the music world by his Jewish name Matisyahu, left his traditional reconstructionist Jewish roots to embrace orthodox or Hasidic Judaism and now expresses his faith and world view in reggae/ light rap music.
Read More

Singer Lauryn Hill and the Fugees: 'Selah'

Lauryn Hill 'Selah' Singer Song-Writer Marches to Her Own Drumbeat
Lauryn Hill, singer, songwriter, former member of The Fugees (The Refugee Camp) with Pras Michel and sometime lover Haitian Wyclef Jean, mother of five children with Rohan Marley, Ms. Hill (name choice Lauryn's) has the voice of cigarette-smoking angel.
Read More