Yuletide Blues!

The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra performs a feast of swinging Yuletide favorites!

In each of these three standalone specials, folk-singing legend Judy Collins guides listeners through a tour around the country to hear from artists who are performing songs to mark the holiday season. Many tell the stories of the songs they've written or chosen to sing.

Christmas programs on the radio in the 1940s ranged from variety shows, to dramas, to comedies. All of them contained a generous portion of music from swing to sentimental to religious.

A rhythmic and regal retelling of the Christmas story. The Rose Ensemble reawakens the ancient with sacred songs and lively dances for the season from Renaissance Spain.

A warm smooth-flowing mix of intriguing facts, gentle humor, and a variety of pop, soft-rock, classical, alternative, film, and show tunes, current and classic. For airing December through February.

An hour-long program of classic jazz. Come along for a jzz sleigh ride with music from Shirley Horn, Paul Bley, Duke Ellington, and more...

An hour-long, laidback, seasonal program of jazz and popular song, featuring music that evokes love, reflection, and peace and the warm moods of winter--a sort of secular musical Yule-log offering. Perfect for any time in December, and especially for the week between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

Here are some great soul and R&B holiday winter classics. You will hear Christmas tunes from James Brown, Otis Reading, The Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder, and more.

A musical and literary Christmas celebration that features the internationally acclaimed choral ensembles and Philharmonic Orchestra of Brigham Young University. A wonderful reminder of the pivotal role of fine arts in one of the most beloved seasons of the year.

The inside story behind this 1963 album featuring performances by The Ronettes, The Crystals, Darlene Love and Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans that raised the bar for pop/rock arrangements of classic holiday songs. Includes interviews with singers Darlene Love and LaLa Brooks, musicians Nino Tempo, Don Randi and Hal Blaine. Hosted by Anthony DeCurtis.

Seasonal music from two of the three kings -- of the blues -- tracks from Kenny Ellis's album Hanukkah Swings! (and it does!), McCoy Tyner, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, and more.

A "Good Old Fashioned Holiday Special," just like the ones you used to know. Jerry Robbins, with J.T. Turner, Diane Capen, Rob Cattell, Connor Doherty and Ricky MacDonald star in this throwback to the classic specials we remember from the past. Musical highlights include "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year," "The Christmas Song," and many more.

The Canadian Brass play holiday favorites in new and classic arrangements. Includes their exhilarating "Hanukkah Medley," "Joy to the World," "The First Noel," "Silent Night," a new arrangement of "Jingle Bells" in the style of Handel -- and many other tunes for the season.

Steve Jencks hosts this trip down Memory Lane featuring Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, Eartha Kitt, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Stan Kenton, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, Bob Dylan, Dinah Washington, Louis Prima, Mel Torme, Mitch Miller, Tex Beneke, June Christy, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Included is a brief history of Santa Claus.

Host Rita Houston talks with Bette Midler, Sarah McLachlan and Aimee Mann about holiday music and traditions, featuring exclusive live performances and new additions to the Christmas catalog.

Seasonal music by the legendary British band Jethro Tull, with humorous commentary by its founder, Ian Anderson.

A diverse collection of holiday music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the present sung by The Western Wind, one of America's preeminent vocal ensembles.

A jazz-virtuoso cantor and a kabbalistic psychotherapist bring their respective talents together, to provide new inspiration for Chanukah!

From duranguense to salsa to flamenco — melodies and rhythms from Mexico to the Caribbean to Spain — this edition of Beat Latino presents tunes to celebrate the holidays. Some of the most danceable versions of Christmas classics such as "Jingle Bells."

Two self-contained hours of special programming based on the acclaimed ten-part ATC series, with a Web site filled with photos, features, background, and sound at YiddishRadioProject.org.

The entire "Juke In The Back" is loaded with the greatest R&B Christmas records from the late 1940s and 1950s. It's the yuletide soul that came before rock n' roll. So grab some 'nog and get groovin'.

Absolutely irreverent holiday music and other songs from Richard Cheese, Twisted Sister, Bubble, Casey Desmond and Grisbi all put together like a perfect gingerbread house for December evening listening pleasure.

Experience the magic of a Hawaiian Christmas with Slack Key Master Kapono Beamer, who weaves tales of Hawaiian holiday traditions along with his family's musical legacy.