Around Cincinnati

Lee Hay previews the upcoming Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice celebration concert that will air on 91.7 WVXU and 88.5 WMUB this Friday, December 18 at 8pm.

The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati will begin the New Year with a new home and new professional leadership.

There’s a new professional a capella ensemble in our area and they are known as No Promises.

Star of the East is the title of this year’s Cincinnati Camerata annual Marian concert which explores Eastern European Orthodox musical traditions.

The creative and inventive mind of Don Poynter (he invented whiskey-flavored toothpaste) turned to toys and gadgets and he is one of the many local toymakers celebrated in a current exhibit at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s downtown branch.

The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival is a local holiday tradition, happening just after the start of the New Year at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Cincinnati.

Guitarist Jeffrey Seeman has teamed with Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman for a new CD, Everything in Between, and the release party will take place December 19 at Live at the Ludlow Garage.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their holiday production of A Christmas Carol.

Novelist Mary Higgins Clark has been writing suspense novels for 40 years, and she’s with our Barbara Gray to talk about her newest, All Dressed in White.

Cirque du Soleil will bring its newest touring show, Toruk: The First Flight (Inspired by James Cameron’s “Avatar”), to Cincinnati’s US Bank Arena starting May 4, 2016.