Artist Lounge: Burl Ives
Moggers' favorites by Burl Ives
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7:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Regular $32 Discount $30 Flex $28 Student $10
Rekindle the flame in the hearth and return to the days before the motorcar, the television, and the telephone. Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas recreates the joy and innocence of a night before Christmas in a farmhouse—the Rambling House—in the remote parish of Teampall and Ghleanntain in the West of Ireland. Here, the neighbors gather to grace the wintry nigh... MORE
The Trip to Bountiful video really moved me. We can get so weary in this lousy world, that a song like that seems appropriate to death. Softly and Tenderly.........
Another one from 1964, this is Burl Ives' signature Christmas tune, a true piece of Americana. The song charted top ten for him in December of 1964, thanks to the huge popularity of the television special Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer on CBS that winter. Enjoy the rare )))) STEREO (((( version.







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