Martina McBride's Christmas tour rolls through the Houston area this weekend at Sugarland's Smart Financial Center. McBride is a holiday phenom and enjoys doing the holidays. It was Thanksgiving week on 
Fox News McBride showcased her holiday cooking spirit.
During the Fox presentation McBride said, "In her new cookbook, “Marina’s Kitchen Mix: My Recipe Playlist for Real Life,” Martina shares samples of her favorite dishes, like chicken braised in sun-dried tomato cream sauce, or smashed new potatoes with lemon.
“Becoming an Opry member was the most thrilling moment of my career," she adds. "I’ll try to make the Opry proud and do my best to continue the tradition of country music and the tradition of the Opry.”
This weekend's performance will feature songs from both Martina 
McBride's Christmas albums including her forthcoming holiday album It's The Holiday Season, as well as a few hits, "The Joy of Christmas Tour" will bring to life a classic big band sound with symphony orchestra, making it a holiday event you won't want to miss and this weekend it’s all at the Smart Financial Center.
This British pop icon continues to tour the world with his satchel of pop music
melodies. (He says this is his last one) It was in 1975 when Elton John, who is 71-years old now appeared on America's popular R&B dance and music program Soul Train, where he sang Bennie and the Jets that put this singer/songwriter on the map in the black communities. This also some music critics say gave him an entree into the pop Billboard charts. The recording of Bennie and the Jets was also playing on R&B radio stations. It went to #15 on the Billboard Soul Singles chart. Still a feat for an artist with no previous hits with that audience. It is reported John set out to have an R&B hit and he did. His fellow Brit David Bowie was the next pop/rock act to appear on the popular inner city Soul Train.
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It was from 2009 to 2011, Ewoldt starred in the North American tour and in the 50th anniversary international tour of West Side Story. In 2015, s
he played Tuptim in a tour of The King and I, where she "received the loudest applause from the audience after she sang her stirring, operatic interpretation of 'My Lord and Master'". Other regional theatre roles include Luisa in The Fantasticks at the Mt. Washington Valley Theatre Co.
In 2015 she appeared in The King and I revival on Broadway the next year she joined the Broadway company of The Phantom of the Opera as the show's first Asian-American Christine.
Every year this holiday ballet classic comes alive in the Bayou City via the Houston Ballet. But how did this Nutcracker tale begin?
"The Nu
tcracker and the Mouse King" is a story written in 1816 by German author E. T. A. Hoffmann, the story is about the young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, a Nutcracker that comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. It was in 1892, Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas père's adaptation of the story into the ballet The Nutcracker.
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Houston’s seasonal favorite returns! A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas is a family-friendly re-telling of Charles Dickens’ classic story, which follows Ebenezer Scrooge’s journey with the three ghostly spirits who visit him on Christmas Eve. A Christmas Carol instills a powerful message about redemption and the spirit of the holiday season.
Those who have studied Charles Dickens say this about the British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social commentator who wrote such beloved classic novels as Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and of coursed A Christmas Carol.
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols and newer customs such as Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors including
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