This year's VocalEssence Welcome Christmas concert celebrates the holidays with the warmth of traditional carols and the exhilaration of new songs for the season. The concert features a garland of carols from Sweden, and the world premiere of this year's Welcome Christmas! Carol Contest-winning carols, composed for chorus and bell choir. Other carols were chosen by VocalEssence fans in an online audience favorite poll. Join us for holiday classics new and old, when Philip Brunelle and VocalEssence Welcome Christmas! Information is available at http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/programs/welcome_xmas/