Martina McBride sells out 3-night run at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony during The Joy Of Christmas Tour

Martina McBride | Photo Credit: Joseph Llanes

This holiday season, country music icon and lifestyle influencer, Martina McBride, has been busy helping spread a little Christmas magic to her fans.

Whether it be by setting the mood for your annual holiday party with her recently released jazz influenced and symphony orchestra backed album, It’s The Holiday Season (Vinyl Recordings), or by helping craft perfect recipes for your family and friends with her new cookbook, Martina’s Kitchen Mix: My Recipe Playlist for Real Life and current show on Food Network, “ Martina’s Table” (airing Sundays at 12pm ET/PT), McBride has all your holiday entertaining needs covered! 

Release Date: 19 Oct. 2018

Label: Broken Bow Records

9 Tracks

Total Length: 26:15

Genres: Christmas

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Martina shared: "It is a Christmas album, it is called It's The Holiday Season, and...you know, I made a classic Christmas album about 20 years ago called White Christmas. And it's just been one of those records; when I made it, I wanted it to be the kind of record that really just stands the test of time. So we made it in the old fashioned kind of way with a big orchestra and it's very lush. And I wanted to do the same kind of thing, meaning that I wanted it to stand the test of time with this new album. But we did it in a little bit different way. So, we cut with a big band. An orchestra, but also horns, and a lot of it's kind of swing. It's kind of in the same...I would say it's in the same style as the old Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald Christmas records. It's really, really fun! It's infectious, like, it's just so much fun to listen to! It makes me want to take ballroom dancing lessons, to be honest, because I want to be able to dance to it.

Most recently, McBride has been on the road with her The Joy of Christmas Tour 2018, which just had a stellar sold-out three night run at Nashville’s own Schermerhorn Symphony over the weekend.

Each stop on the tour has incorporated the amazing talents of local orchestras as McBride delivers her jazzy take on everyone’s favorite holiday standards and her classic hits. 

McBride also treated viewers of the 92^nd Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to her rendition of “Most Wonderful Time of Year” atop the Balsam Hill float. She was also on hand at this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lightingevent where she performed “Winter Wonderland” standing in front of the New York spectacle that draws thousands of visitors to the city from across the globe. 

Up next, fans can catch McBride on “ Live! with Kelly and Ryan” on Tuesday, December 11^th where she will be in the kitchen showing the hosts a few of her favorite recipes that are perfect for holiday entertaining. She will return to the show on Monday, December 24^th for their special Christmas show where she will perform. 

Related BLOG POST (August 2018) : Martina McBride new Christmas Album and new Cookbook

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