New Age Christmas Radio

March 17, 2012 – Bill Leslie's latest album A Midnight Clear was awarded Zone Music Reporter's Best Holiday Album, in the publication's 8th annual ZMR Music Awards this week. Released in 2011, the album ranked 46th overall in ZMR's Top 100 Airplay Chart for 2011.  At it's highest point it ranked 5th in top broadcast [...]

The 2011 holiday season was the most successful yet for NACR!  Thank you for listening and supporting the broadcast.  As my gift to you, the music marches onward into 2012.  And, even though the holidays are officially behind us, I encourage you to listen in from time to time as a reminder that the spirit [...]

Amazon.com Widgets I am pleased to announce that I have added new music for the 2011 season from: Bill Leslie, Chuck Cape, Fiona Joy Hawkins, Jeff Bjorck, Louis Colaiannia, and The Four Freshmen.  Enjoy the music, and Happy Holidays!

Welcome to New Age Christmas Radio!  I'm glad that you took a moment from your busy holiday season to spend a few moments of reflective relaxation here with us.  If you haven't yet taken the opportunity, click on "About Us" and learn about the history behind this unique holiday experience. Once again this year I [...]

If you have been listening to New Age Christmas Radio for any extended length of time, you have no doubt heard the beautiful voice of Teri Wilder.  She’s the one you hear on New Age Christmas Radio wishing you “happy holidays” and inviting you to visit this website.  I am truly blessed to know Teri, [...]

If you’ve already read the story of New Age Christmas Radio then you’re aware this whole thing was really an accident – an experiment that became a holiday tradition.  What I haven’t expounded on, at least up to this point, is the music library I chose to use for that experiment. My taste in music [...]

It doesn’t take much listening to New Age Christmas Radio to encounter music performed on the harp.  It is one of my favorite musical instruments, and is perfectly fitting for the holiday season.  I am also a big fan of Smooth Jazz music, and listen regularly to several online stations that play the format. What [...]

If you have been listening to New Age Christmas Radio over the past several years, you are well-aware of the mostly solo-type performances I like to play.  Generally, the more simplistic the sound, the greater likelihood it ends up on the station.  David Arkenstone has been a significant part of that sound since the beginning.  [...]

When I received my first “guestbook” message from Ken Elkinson earlier this year announcing his first-ever holiday album, I was quite excited!  One of my goals in running New Age Christmas Radio is to discover newly created and recorded holiday music.  It was with much anticipation, then, that I awaited the arrival of Generations in [...]

Just in time for the 2008 Christmas holiday season, Enya releases the latest in her series of beautifully-crafted collections of some of the dreamiest music you’ll ever hear. Famous for the ever-enchanting “Orinoco Flow” Enya has created a sound that is truly unique, and she continues that tradition of uniqueness with this album, called “And [...]