For those unaware, WINTERSONG is a collection of new, rare, and beloved Christmas songs performed by Amanda McBroom, writer of Bette Midler’s classic hit THE ROSE.

The New York Times called Amanda, ... the greatest cabaret singer/songwriter of our generation, who writes like an angel and has a voice to match.

This collection was inspired by a brand new Christmas carol, MARY SAID NO, written by Amanda and her long-time collaborator, Michele Brourman.

Other new and/or rare holiday songs include the beautiful FIRST SNOW OF THE YEAR by Rosie Casey and Ken Hirsch, MAYBE THIS CHRISTMAS by Ron Sexton, and a brand new New Years Eve standard, A HAPPY NEW YEAR by Amanda and jazz great Ann Hampton Callaway.

Her love of musical theater (she starred in the New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and European productions of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, on Broadway in Seesaw, and in productions of Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music and Mame) compelled her to create a musical based on her songs.

Heartbeats made its debut in 1989 in Los Angeles, and the play has enjoyed more than 15 regional theater productions around the U.S. The original cast recording was released in 1994 on Varese Sarabande Records, and is represented by the Rogers and Hammerstein Music Library. Amanda’s latest musical, A Woman of Will, made its off-Broadway debut in 2005.

Amanda recently celebrated the release of VOICES, her sixth recording on Gecko, the label she established in 1985. Other Gecko recordings include Dreaming, Midnight Matinee, A Waiting Heart, Portraits, and Chanson. In addition, she has recorded: Live From Rainbow and Stars (DRG), Heartbeats (Varese Sarabande), and A Woman of Will (LML Music).

Her first two groundbreaking vinyl recordings, Growing Up In Hollywood Town and West of OZ, were recorded direct to disc for Sheffield Labs and made McBroom an audiophile darling.

1. All About Love
2. The First Snow of the Year
3. Mary Said No
4. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
5. Maybe This Christmas
6. My Christmas Angel
7. A Star Stood Still
8. Same Auld Lang Syne
9. I’ll Be Home For Christmas
10. Shine Down Love
11. A Christmas Memory
12. A Happy New Year

This beautifully sculpted, perfectly ambient new holiday collection opens on the veritably glistening All About Love and the magically smooth The First Snow of the Year, then we get the slightly more strident storytelling fare of Mary Said No, the ornately jazzy vibe of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, the joyful Maybe This Christmas, and then the dreamy gossamer of My Christmas Angel is brought forth.

We continue onward with the breathtakingly opulent A Star Stood Still and a simply heavenly Same Auld Lang Syne and they are in turn followed seamlessly by the sheer elegance of I’ll Be Home For Christmas, the atmospheric Shine Down Love, the set rounding out on the gently triumphant A Christmas Memory, closing on a resounding impassioned A Happy New Year.

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