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Scene From McKay’s Christmas...
Mike McKay
Special Set
CHARLOTTE, N.C—“A
Christmas Holiday with Mike
McKay,” a special yuletide
musical production featuring
Mike McKay, his wife Betsy and
daughter Erin, the Unity Singers
and Jim Patterson, will be
rebroadcast Wednesday,
December 23 rd, at 8JX) PM on
WBTV, Channel 3.
Filmed on location at Beech
Mountain, the show depicts a
wonderful holiday in a winter
wonderland with Mike and his
family joining the Unity Singers
in snowball fights, skiing, ice
skating, trimming the tree, and
delighting in Christmas toys and
goodies. Jim Patterson portrays
a jolly old fellow who may be a
toy shopkeeper, and then again
may be someone else.
Throughout the half-hour
special the Unity Singers blend
their voices in traditional songs
of the season such as “White
Christmas” “Let It Snow,”
jfflave Yourself A Merry Little
fphristmas,” and their beautiful
rendition of “Silent Night,” ar
ranged by Anita Kerr. They also
perform Loonis McGlohon’s
“Christmas Eve” and “It’s
Christmas Time.”
“Waltz for a Ballerina Doll,”
which won for McGlohon the
1976 North Carolina Composer
of the Year Award, is the
background music for a magnifi
cent ice skating performance by
Joleen Linshoten.
“A Christmas Holiday with
Mike McKay” was written and
produced by Loonis McGlohon,
filmed by cinematographers
John Steed and Eddie Hollifield,
and directed by John Burchett.
The Unity Singers were directed
by Steve Darsey and the musical
track was recorded by the B.B.C.
Symphony Orchestra in London.
The Kitchen
Is Busy Place
The hustle-bustle of the holi
day season is not to be found in
department stores alone.
Another center of much activity
at Christmastime is the kitchen,
where, for days before the holi
day, the smell of cakes baking
and meats roasting announce the
arrival of the season to discern
ing noses.
The tradition of feasting at
Christmas is as old as the holi
day itself, and each culture has
its peculiarities when it comes to
holiday menus.
A popular custom
Perhaps one of the most
peculiar of holiday foods is the
boar's head, a long-standing
culinary tradition among the
British. While a feast featuring
boar's head has become less
common in England in the past
decades, this centuries-old cus
tom is still practiced with great
ritual among traditionalists.
Some say the custom goes
back to pre-Christian days when
the Druids killed a boar and of
fered its head as a sacrifice to the
goddess Ireya at the Winter sol
stice. Others trace the boar's
head ceremony to Viking days,
when at the season of Yu-ul the
Vikings sacrificed a boar and
feasted on its head to accelerate
the sun's return.
Flourish of pageantry
Ancient societies and clubs in
such cities as London, Oxford
and Cambridge still observe the
2000-year old feast, where the
boar's head is carried into the
dining hall in a flourish of
pageantry. The chef bears the
head on a tray, followed by the
knife bearer, choristers and
minstrels.
Join our
chorus of
well-wishers
for a Merry
Christmas...
filled with
joy!
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