| The concerts will also include traditional pieces, spirituals, Christmas songs and carols. |
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| Brightly coloured lights, gift-wrapped presents and carols, this can only mean one thing, it's Christmas time. |
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| I always loved singing Christmas carols and hymns, and looked forward to the Nine Lessons and Carols service before Christmas. |
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| Walking past the radio, which hums with Christmas carols, Leslie answers the door. |
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| There will be plenty of merriment as well, with bon-bons, Christmas carols and games rounding off celebrations. |
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| As the cards and carols remind us, Christmas is supposed to be a time for families and togetherness and peace and well being for all. |
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| Riders will learn about trains, can sing Christmas carols in the piano bar and may have a glimpse of Santa on the train. |
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| And of course families and friends enjoyed gathering around the piano to sing Christmas carols. |
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| The festivities included singing traditional Christmas carols and a glorious lighting display on the beach side of the shopping center. |
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| Under the guidance of Eileen, the children of the school danced, sang Christmas carols and played musical instruments. |
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| These traditional hymn books contain 108 hymns, traditional songs, and carols. |
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| Once Santa made his rounds, the Trill Band entertained everyone with Christmas carols and festive music. |
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| One of the main objectives of the choir at present is to put together a presentation of hymns and carols for Christmas services. |
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| A nice cream tea in the Victorian Kitchens followed, leaving just enough time to sing a few carols with the Salvation Army Band. |
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| Then add traditional English Christmas songs and carols, stir in a dash of humour and a pinch of pantomime and sprinkle with magic-dust. |
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| There's a lantern procession, carols and much feasting on stargazy pie with pilchard heads poking through the piecrust. |
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| The combined choirs will sing the traditional carols of the Christmas season and in addition there will be readings from Sacred Scripture. |
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| A combined choir of five churches will sing Christmas carols in Latin and English. |
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| That explains the absence of carols, tinsel and holly if you come listening through our keyhole and peering through our window this year. |
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| This new recording features two dozen carols brought together to create a concert performance. |
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| Yesterday evening I sang carols for a company Xmas drinks event at the Abbotsford Convent. |
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| The choir master and choir sang beautifully, children gathered around the Holy Crib to sing their carols, and the brass band added zest. |
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| People are urged to take along old toys and clothing to donate to the needy and candles and carols sheets are on sale. |
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| Local schoolchildren led a rousing rendition of some popular Christmas carols and Santa Claus was on hand. |
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| In Holland, a council in the city of Rotterdam are keeping unruly youths off the streets by blaring out Christmas carols from a barrel organ. |
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| Although some carols can trace their roots back to the early 16th century, the winner was set to music less than 100 years ago. |
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| He also mingled with the children and joined them in the singing of carols and other Christmas songs. |
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| They sang carols in German, which is the second language of many Transylvanians. |
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| The cold morning breeze and a festive ambience, the chime of bells and melodious carols signal the arrival of Christmas. |
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| The local choirs gave a beautiful rendering of carols creating a wonderful festive atmosphere. |
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| To add to the atmosphere, members of Newport Choir and friends sang carols and Christmas songs under the Christmas Tree. |
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| Groups singing carols and folk songs to the beat of local musical instruments would arrive unannounced at any time of the night. |
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| The speeches by spiritual heads were interspaced with Christmas carols by leading church choirs from the city. |
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| Written for Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Die Natali is a fantasy on Christmas carols. |
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| We act out the nativity and sing about 50 Christmas carols, it's lots of fun. |
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| The girls and boys brigade from the church along with the church choir sang carols and a nativity play was also features. |
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| We are playing Christmas carols from a PA system and a nativity scene is on the 1930s engine. |
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| Teddy bears were handed out and carols were sung in the hopes of raising the spirits of those who will be spending their Christmas in hospital. |
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| Director Paul Gameson will conduct a 7.30 pm programme of Christmas music by Charpentier, honouring the Virgin Mary in a selection of carols, motets and dramatic oratorios. |
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| The boys of the group embraced the assignment a little too enthusiastically, shouting the carols like tankard-hoisting Chaucerians rather than singing them. |
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| It is Christmas day and everyone is singing carols under the cabbage tree. |
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| There will be Swedish handicrafts and traditional Swedish food, and the highlight of the day is the Queen of Light and her attendants singing Christmas carols. |
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| Christmas carols were being sung by almost everyone in the lodge. |
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| The atmosphere in Milltown is brilliant with Christmas carols playing over the loudspeakers in the carpark and the cottage and gardens all lit up. |
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| That's one of our most beautiful and popular Christmas carols. |
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| A choir of enlisted men and aviation cadets sang Christmas carols. |
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| We would watch those popular Christmas movies and sing Christmas carols. |
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| An evening full of Christmas music from sacred hymns to fiery Celtic tunes and best-loved carols. |
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| As we ate, someone mentioned the impending festive period, and talk turned to presents, carols and Santa. |
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| Charity services, family services, carols by candlelight and sing-along concerts abound. |
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| Secularists sue to stop schools from including carols as part of their Christmas celebrations. |
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| He called his poems ballads, carols, serenades, rondels and nursery rhymes, and wrote them as if they should be danced to. |
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| In many homes, it starts off by listening to carols and decorating the tree. |
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| The switch is flipped at an official illumination ceremony open to the public that includes carols and on-site performances. |
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| Each song has its own unique story, but the origins of the traditional carols are often hard to trace. |
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| The last Sunday before Christmas the senior and youth choirs led us in a service of carols and readings. |
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| Today, children do not go carolling anymore but this tradition has been preserved in the form of beautiful carols. |
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| The inspired singing of Christmas carols by the Thomanerchor Leipzig, attracts large congregations to the church every Christmas. |
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| I'm going to yell carols discordantly to myself at the top of my voice, perhaps with all of the extra verses we used to make up at school. |
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| Reindeer symbolize Christmas for many people because they are used in Christmas songs and carols. |
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| I take out the boxes of Christmas decorations, and especially the Christmas music and carols. |
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| With lessons and carols, communion and evensong, the person at the centre of these religious services will be working long hours delivering the Christmas message. |
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| Wrap up the evening with some bubbly and canapés, a toast by the fireplace, music and carols. |
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| Experience the magic of the Nativity with light carols and works evoking a contemplative mood by Corette, Scarlatti, Bach and Corelli. |
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| The launch of the play club was a family affair with carols galore and of course Santa cutting the ribbon and having a quiet word with the younger guests. |
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| Sing carols around the piano in Leura, meet Santa in front of a roaring fire in Mount Victoria or have a romantic candlelit dinner in Blackheath. |
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| To the cheerful sounds of everyone's favourite carols, snow drifted down through the colourful array of overhead decorations and twinkling fairy lights. |
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| Following Christmas Night Mass, there will be a recital of Christmas songs and carols at the foot of the brae, in order to raise funds for the Christmas Lighting. |
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| More characteristic of Manx folk culture were the ballads and carols, or carvels. |
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| The audience will be treated to a mince pie and carols by candlelight. |
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| Joining Aled and Pam to count down the nation's favourite carols are chart-topping singer Katherine Jenkins and world-famous classical soloist Andrea Bocelli. |
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| At last I understood what all those joyful carols were being sung for. |
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| The lights are aglow in the windows, the sound of the Christmas carols and the song we associate with the season of goodwill to all men is with us once again. |
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| Guest conductor Timothy Vernon joins the orchestra once again to present hummable selections from the golden age, the masterworks, and from traditional carols. |
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| The men sing carols and the Scots contingent joins in with their pipes. |
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| At the morning service five choirs will sing antiphonally Christmas carols. |
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| I'm not much of a holiday merrymaker, but I do appreciate a stiff glass of eggnog while the others sing carols. |
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| During the dinner the Signal Officer... played the church organ and with the aid of the improvised choir, organized by the padre, carols rang out throughout the church. |
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| A magical, marvellous location which attracts many visitors with its fairy-like and friendly atmosphere, its Christmas decorations, Father Christmas, carols, Christmas music, mulled wine and much more. |
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| In the rush of the hectic Yuletide season, the Carollers bring focus to the true meaning of Christmas, with their beautiful and unique interpretations of traditional Christmas carols in many languages. |
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| Students and teachers alike were encouraged to ring bells and sing holiday carols as they made their treks around schoolyards, in school hallways, and on other safe routes in close proximity to the school. |
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| The traditions of Christmas include the 12 days of Christmas, the bright fires, the yule log, the giving of gifts, carols, the feasts, and the church processions. |
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| In this holiday season, a choir sings climate change carols. |
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| Cute' does not begin to describe the scene as you hear the children singing traditional Xmas carols in the darkness and then you see the approaching light from their candles. |
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| The holiday cruise features traditional carols, Norwegian glogg, Santa Claus and a Christmas breakfast. |
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| The tradition of singing carols in pubs around Christmas is still kept alive in the city. |
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| The Sheffield Carols, as they are known locally, predate modern carols by over a century and are sung with alternative words and verses. |
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| It has a tradition of carols stemming from the Cornish who settled the area as gold miners in the 19th century. |
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| In common with many traditional songs and carols the lyrics vary across books. |
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| It is one of the oldest extant carols, dated to the 16th century or earlier. |
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| Children would sing 'pancake songs' on Shrove Tuesday and summer carols were connected to the festival of Calan Mai. |
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| Early musical traditions during the 17th and 18th century saw the emergence of more complex carols, away from the repetitive ceremonial songs. |
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| In the city, a big Christmas tree is lit with Christmas lights, and everybody surrounds the tree and sings Christmas carols. |
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| During this time, parishes will be involved in Christmas carols and the celebration of Christmas Day church services with Christmas cakes. |
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| I actually like the shopping, the gift wrap, the carols. |
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| Their repertoire includes madrigals, masses, motets, part-songs, glees, carols and the odd barbershop item thrown in. |
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| Sure, the standard carols and tracks by the likes of the Beach Boys, wham! |
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| It is believed that many churches are making changes to the original Christmas carols and even removing words like king, son and virgin, to make them politically correct. |
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| Rain, snow or sunshine, they played on the broad flags outside Woolworths on the Walworth Road, oompahing their way through a repertoire of carols. |
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| The event saw Gosforth head teachers lifted up 110ft by a cherry-picker, while their pupils watched from below and sang carols alongside an organist. |
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| In 2000, she released Dream a Dream, an album of Christmas carols. |
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| Traditional songs such as Green grow the rushes, O present religious lore in a mnemonic form, as do Western Christmas carols and similar traditional songs. |
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