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The 10th Annual Around Cincinnati Christmas Special

The 10th Annual Around Cincinnati Christmas special will air on Sunday, December 21 from 7-9pm. The program will revisit songs recorded in Cincinnati Public Radio’s Corbett Theatre over the years, as well as from wonderful CDs by talented local musicians. There will be readings and a couple of new holiday essays by Rick Pender and Dave Papin. Listeners will also hear a few new songs by the Comet Bluegrass All-Stars, Zak Morgan, and one song written by Irv Rosen and recorded by Ed Moss, Lou Lausche and vocalist Pam Ross in 2004.

  Hour #1:

  1. The show begins with the traditional reading of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by bluegrass legend Katie Laur
  2. Michael Burnham reads from Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”
  3. Bruce Comer and Greg Procaccino enact a scene from Playhouse in the Park’s production of “A Christmas Carol.”
  4. Dave Papin reads a heartwarming essay about a personal Christmas experience.
  5. Kate Fadick shares one of her poems, “Nativity.”

Songs in Hour #1:

  1. Ellery – Christmas Time is Here
  2. Katie Reider – Silent Night.  Katie drove down from Columbus to record this song in the Corbett Studio for the first Around Cincinnati Christmas special in 2005.  She passed away in 2008.
  3. Greg Schaber – Angels We Have Heard on High
  4. Michael Chertock – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
  5. Daniel Martin Moore – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
  6. Raison D’Etre – Light of the Stable
  7. Cat City – Sugar Plum Fairy Blues
  8. Faux Frenchmen – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
  9. Over the Rhine – One Olive Jingle
  10. Stuart Holman/Chuck Adair – Walkin’ in a Winter Wonderland

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  Hour #2:

  1. Actors from Cincinnati Shakespeare Company enact a scene from their production of “Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)”
  2. George Ella Lyon reads her poem, "O Tannenbaum."
  3. Dr. Herbert Woodward Martin shares one of his poems, “The New Year Accomplished.”
  4. Rick Pender reads an essay entitled, “Mistletoe & Holly.”

Songs in Hour #2:

  1. Lisak & Rowe – On Christmas Day. - Recorded this fall for this Around Cincinnati special.
  2. Larry Nager – Cincinnati native now living in Nashville – performs a Christmas medley on guitar:Silent Night, Merry Chaos, and Christmas Bells.
  3. Maria Valdez from the Cincinnati Opera – Ave Maria
  4. Catacoustic Consort – Puer Natus in Bethlehem
  5. Cincinnati Pops Orchestra – Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
  6. Rosie Carson/Lucas Wozniak – I Saw Three Ships
  7. Rob Allgeyer Organ Trio -  Count Your Blessings
  8. Phil DeGreg Trio – In the Bleak Midwinter
  9. Lisa Biales – Carol of the Bells
  10. The Bluebirds – Santa Claus is Coming to Town
  11. Zak Morgan – Angels We Have Heard on High from his new CD, Christmas, produced & recorded at Ric Hordinski’s studio The Monastery.
  12. Ed Moss – One Wish for Christmas – with bassist Lou Lausche and vocalist Pam Ross.  Written by Irving H. Rosen and arranged by Ed Moss.  Recorded in 2004.
  13. The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars – Miracle of the Wheat