Tag archives: christmastime

Christmastime is here. And so we turn to mezzo-soprano Xeni Tziouvaras. As her five-syllable name and homestead in Florence, Italy, don’t necessarily suggest, Xeni is a Californian and graduate of Dos Pueblos H.S. in Goleta. This holiday season she is making a special trip home to perform at the annual Sounds and Stories of Greek […]

The Santa Barbara Choral Society’s “Hallelujah Project” hunkered down at the Lobero Theatre every December for the last decade with a program that also included a guest star reading “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” amid a selection of choral favorites from around the world. But this year, in a nod to the USA’s 250th birthday, […]

December 15-22 – Hanukkah, The Festival of Lights, celebrating the rededication of the Second Temple. December 21 – Yule which celebrates the winter solstice and the rebirth of the sun.  December 25 – Christmas which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Hanukkah Menorah Lightings -Chabad of Montecito,public service at Upper Village Green; Rabbi Chaim Loschak […]