{"id":138572,"date":"2024-12-18T20:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T01:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=138572"},"modified":"2024-12-18T20:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T01:24:05","slug":"wdiy-presents-the-christmas-sweaters-an-evening-of-new-carols-no-one-asked-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=138572","title":{"rendered":"WDIY Presents \u201cThe Christmas Sweaters \u2014 An Evening of New Carols No One Asked For\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Lehigh Valley, PA) \u2013 WDIY 88.1 FM\u00a0presents a concert in partnership with Lehigh Valley singer\/songwriters Alex Radus and George Hrab &#8211; seasonally known as The Christmas Sweaters.\u00a0\u00a0The one-night performance of \u201cHoliday Extravaganza and Album Release Concert\u201d will be held December 19, 2024 at The Ice House in Bethlehem. Guests are invited to ring in the Season with a hilarious set of &#8220;New Carols No One Asked For.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8450.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-138574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8450-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8450-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In late \u201823, Alex and George furiously wrote a series of delightfully awful, so-bad-they\u2019re-good holiday tunes. Full of merriment and cheer, they recorded a LIVE album at Godfrey Daniels. The Ice House concert will celebrate the release of &#8220;The Christmas Sweaters Live in Bethlehem!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sweaters will perform their soon-to-be holiday classics including Smells Like Christmas, Eggnog with Werner Herzog, and We Get the Entrails (for Christmas).<\/p>\n<p>Guests are encouraged to wear their most outrageous holiday sweaters. While the songs performed by the Christmas Sweaters are all incredibly fun and goofy- recommended audience is 13 and up.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and more information are available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thechristmassweaters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thechristmassweaters.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is presented as a kick-off to WDIY\u2019s 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary which officially begins on January 8, 2025. Other anniversary events and programming are planned throughout 2025.<\/p>\n<p>About WDIY:<em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nWDIY is an award-winning listener-supported public radio station and NPR station based in the Lehigh Valley.\u00a0WDIY broadcasts on 88.1 FM serving the Lehigh Valley and beyond with a translator on 93.9 FM serving the Easton-Phillipsburg area. WDIY streams on the web at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wdiy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wdiy.org<\/a>, on its app for smartphones and tablets, and through smart speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nShamus McGroggan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Lehigh Valley, PA) \u2013 WDIY 88.1 FM\u00a0presents a concert in partnership with Lehigh Valley singer\/songwriters Alex Radus and George Hrab &#8211; seasonally known as The Christmas Sweaters.\u00a0\u00a0The one-night performance of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=138572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WDIY Presents \u201cThe Christmas Sweaters \u2014 An Evening of New Carols No One Asked For\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/the-christmas-sweaters.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}