"The Wassail Bowl," printed in The Illustrated London News on Dec. 22, 1860. Going door to door and offering a song or performance in exchange for a drink or money is a centuries-old English custom.

Karen MacDonald, left, will return for a second year as Ebenezer Scrooge in Merrimack Repertory Theatre's production of "A Christmas Carol" Since it was first published in 1843, Charles Dickens’ “A ...

For the second year in a row, we at CNA conducted an informal poll on social media to determine which Christmas carol reigns supreme as our readers’ favorite. To simplify things, the only choices we ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Christmas carols are ...

In 1906, a new carol appeared in “The English Hymnal,” an influential collection of British church music. With words by British poet Christina Rossetti, set to a tune by composer Gustav Holst, it ...

Queen Elizabeth and senior members of the British royal family gathered at the monarch's Windsor Castle home on Tuesday to thank local volunteers and key workers and hear Christmas carols being played ...

THE BASICS: I just finished seeing four different stage productions of Charles Dickens’ novella whose full title is: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. I was hoping for ...

Christmas carols are among the oldest songs people still sing, according to Dr. Keely Rhodes, an assistant professor of music at USC Aiken. Rhodes presented “Music and Merriment: Origins of the ...

An English bishop is pushing back after a church choir sang a "woke" version of a popular Christmas carol injecting LGBT and "inclusive" language into the song. "God rest you queer and questioning, ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Christmas carols are one of our oldest holiday traditions. In fact, some probably predate the holiday itself. We know music itself is ancient, dating back to before there was ...