KET’s holiday programming celebrates the Commonwealth with a new Kentucky Life Christmas special, a New York train show featuring the work of a rural Kentuckian, and concerts from Murray State University and downtown Lexington.
Kentucky Life “Christmas 2007” airs Saturday, Dec. 22 at 8/7 p.m. CT and Sunday, Dec. 23 at 4:30/3:30 p.m. CT on KET1 and Sunday, Dec. 23 at 7/6 p.m. CT on KET2. Hosted by Dave Shuffett and his canine sidekick, Charlie, the program features an eccentric Kentuckian’s Christmas lights display and holiday music from Elizabethtown’s Heartland Dulcimer Club. Also, curators Steve and Heather French Henry give viewers a tour of the Rosemary Clooney House in Maysville.
Holiday Train Show with David Hartman, airing Saturday, Dec. 15 at 10:30/9:30 p.m. CT on KET1 and Friday, Dec. 21 at 10:30/9:30 p.m. CT on KET2, visits New York City for Paul Busse’s Holiday Train Show. Busse, who lives and works in rural Kentucky, creates replicas of New York’s most notable structures out of plant materials as a part of his train display at the New York Botanical Gardens.
Holidays at Murray State, featuring the Murray State University concert choirs, brass ensembles, jazz orchestra and Voices of Praise, takes viewers on a musical and visual journey through the Purchase area of Western Kentucky. The program airs Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET2 and Saturday, Dec. 15 at 5/4 p.m. CT on KET1.
In An Old-Fashioned Holiday Celebration of Song, airing Saturday, Dec. 22 at 5/4 p.m. CT on KET1 and Tuesday, Dec. 25 at 8:30/7:30 a.m. on KET2, the University of Kentucky music and opera departments join the Dunbar High School marching band for a holiday concert in downtown Lexington.
Other holiday programming includes Christmas at Belmont, Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Christmas at St. Olaf and Jazz @ Lincoln Center: Red Hot Holiday Stomp. A complete list of holiday programming is available online at www.ket.org/explore.
More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.
