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Autumn Records

The new Christmas album from Autumn Records features eight Christian guitarists. The project, Christmas Treasures, A McPherson(r) Guitars Instrumental Collection, is set to release in October 2006 and features guitarists such as legendary player Phil Keaggy, Matt McPherson (Founder/designer of McPherson Guitars), Bruce Gaitsch (Michael W. Smith), Dave Cleveland (Steven Curtis Chapman), Mark Baldwin (Kirk Franklin), Michael Hodge (4Him), Michael Ripoll (CeCe Winans) and Tom Hemby (BeBe Winans) .

All of the songs are performed on McPherson acoustic guitars, along with piano, drums, bass, synthesizers, organ, electric guitars, tin whistle, harmonica, percussion and live string ensembles.

Songs include:

• Away in a Manger (Gaitsch)


• Christmas Time is Here (Hemby)


• Coventry Carol (Keaggy)


• Deck the Halls (Cleveland)


• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Baldwin)


• I'll Be Home for Christmas (Hemby)


• In the Bleak Midwinter (Keaggy)


• It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Gaitsch)


• Little Drummer Boy (Ripoll)


• O Come, All Ye Faithful (Hodge)


• O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Baldwin)


• O Holy Night (Gaitsch)


• Silent Night (McPherson)


• The Christmas Song (Ripoll)


• We Three Kings (Hodge)


• We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Cleveland)


• What Child is This (McPherson)

Muriel Anderson

Muriel Anderson is scheduled to release A Guitarscape Christmas on November 24. The CD will be available at on her web site www.murielanderson.com. The single, "Christmas Hymn," from that album will be available on iTunes by November 24, along with songs from her duet Christmas CD, A Little Christmas Gift, with guitarist Jean-Felix Lalanne.

Linda McKechnie and Juju Song

Christmas Collage, featuring concert pianist Linda McKechnie and Jazz Meets Christmas, featuring jazz pianist Juju Song, will be sold exclusively through The Covenant Group stores this fall and Christmas 2006.

Both projects are in the Cool Springs Café instrumental series from the Franklin, TN based Cool Springs Records (Word Distribution). Christmas Collage by Linda McKechnie is a classically orchestrated project featuring European traditional carols including “Ding-Dong, Merrily on High,” “The Coventry Carol” and American carols including “I Wonder As I Wander”and “The Birthday Of The King.”

Jazz Meets Christmas by Juju Song features The Cool Springs Jazz Quartet and includes Christmas classics such as “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” “Angels We Have Heard on High” and “Joy To The World.” The CD will be perfect for fans of the music of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Joy To The World

INO Records will be releasing a compilation CD this Christmas season featuring 11 popular artists.

Songs include:

• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - MercyMe


• Messiah (The Christmas Version) - Phil Wickham


• Welcome to Our World - Phillips Craig and Dean


• Mary Did You Know - Mark Harris


• God With Us - Todd Agnew


• Angels We Have Heard on High - SONICFLOOd


• Hallelujah - Darlene Zschech


• Strange Way to Save The World - 4HIM


• Breath of Heaven - Sara Groves


• Lo How A Rose E're Blooming - Derek Webb


• Joy To The World (A Christmas Prayer) - Nicholas Jonas