Christian music
The Danielson Family
The Danielson Family regularly plays trendy rock clubs, like New York’s Knitting Factory, but they’re not your average rock band. They’ve built quite a following among Christians and non-Christians and they say that they want their shows to express faith, and create spectacle. Produced by Michael Raphael.
The Year’s Best and Worst Christmas Songs
The Takeaway begins the holiday season with a week-long “Remixing the Holidays” series. All week long, we’ll be talking with musicians, music lovers, writers, and you, our listeners, about the best songs of the season. Jon Solomon, a DJ who hosts an annual 24-hour Christmas show, gives us his best and worst Christmas music of the […]
Christmas in Korea Amidst Military Tensions
It’s Christmas Eve morning in America, but on the other side of the world, in South Korea, the sun has already set on Christmas Eve, and “Santa Grandfather” ? as he’s called in Korea ? will be arriving soon with his deliveries. A national holiday in South Korea, Christmas is traditionally a festive time for […]
A Family Battles Cancer by Staying Together
On Monday morning, with much of the east coast of the U.S. under a thick blanket of snow, we asked our listeners for their weather stories. Rebecca Poston Creel, from South Carolina, wrote in with her family’s story, and we thought it was one worth sharing with our listeners. This is what she said: My […]