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Holiday Concert [VHS]

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Goose bumps and palpitations are a few symptoms of Peter, Paul and Mary's Christmas special. Shown over and over on PBS during the Holiday season, it is a special treat while decorating your Christmas tree. The Harmony and power of this trio's combine voices are unique and exciting.

This wonderful holiday concert is hard to find. Used copies are presently available at $50 and up on Amazon Marketplace. It is also available in some libraries. It is a high quality VHS production. It will be loved by both Peter,Paul & Mary fans and by those who appreciate an excellent live holiday concert. The concert runs for 90 minutes of non-stop happiness. Peter, Paul & Mary perform both holdiday songs and non-holiday songs. Some of the songs featured are:

1. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
2. Puff, The Magic Dragon
3. O Come All Ye Faithful
4. Blowin' In The Wind
5. Silent Night
6. 'Twas The Night Before Christmas

This video is great for the whole family including young children and children from Mary's elementary school perform as part of the concert. The concert can be fully enjoyed at any time of the year. Don't just wait until the holiday period.

For this live concert Peter wrote a special song "Light One Candle" which is just terrific. Don't let the light go out for justice in the world. Somehow justice will prevail. Don't miss this very inspirational and hopeful song.

(Wallingford)

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George Reid
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I'd like it to be available on video or Cd too because it's truly one of the best holiday concerts ever by the superb talented trio with all the singers and the children on stage. I always try and watch it on PBS every year and hopefully I'll see it this year.

If you are a fan of this trio.Then you will love this tape!! They do agreat job singing Christmas tunes anytime of the year, but at Christmas will also do. Be sure to watch the tune called "The Marverious Toy", there are a few suprises for you. This is one heck of a tape to put you in the Christmas mood anytime of the year.

This Holiday Concert is a tradition in our family. Peter, Paul and Mary are such animated PERFORMERS, not just singers. Their tenderness and humor singing for children makes me feel like a child. The singing is excellent, and includes Christian and Jewish music (which I love). The audience are a part of this beautiful concert, because they are shown listening to old favorites and its as if you can see the memories going through their minds. And the children love it all just as much, even without the nostalgia. It is a joyful gathering, and you become a part of the joy.

We have had our own taped version made when the show originally appeared on television. We have always enjoyed the music and the ffact that Peter, Paul, and mary give their own twist to many of the pieces. The quality of our tape diminished over the years. We would have preferred to DVD version but none appeasr to be available. This commercialtape reproduces the entire show as originally performed. The quality of the tape is not perfect at several points, but that was probably to be expected in a used tape.

This has got to be the best Christmas Season videos ever. Their voices are matured & have never sounded better. The only shame in all of this is Mary Travers is no longer with us but I can hear her singing at this concert every Christmas & keep her memory as alive as when this concert was first shown on PBS.

This concert was done in 1988. And was recently show on channel 11 during the pledgement drive they do, I think for every season of the year. So you have Peter, Paul & Mary performing on a stage with fake snow. And performing Christmas songs and other Hoilday songs in the month of December. And they aslo sing non-holiday songs like Puff The Magic Dragon, and Blowin In The Wind. This is a must own if you are a fan of Peter, Paul & Mary.

Please make this tape, the best Christmas special I can remember, available once again. It truly is an inspiring special. If you have enjoyed Peter, Paul and Mary in the early years, their get together for this performance is fanstastic. It is "TRUE TO THE MUSIC". Don't let it slip away. Please. We, in this home, do hope PBS will continue to air this truly wonderful Christmas special. IF not possible .... find someone with a copy and enjoy. * * * Truly it starts the season for us and I know many others. The video is copyrighted 1988, long ago, but still timeless

bob & maryann

I want more than a video, I want to see the schedule for tours come out sooner than they do. Last summer a date was performed about two hours away from my home, and I didn't know about it until it was over. I have seen the concert in Branson, MO, and I loved it, the days have changed so much since I was a teen in the sixties, and the memories are so good, to hear the songs, and remember all we went through in those years. Our young people today are reaching for the same things we had, but lets hope we don't have to have the same events that made our years so memorable, for them to have what we have had. Please put the tour dates on very soon. Thanks