LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Judy Pancoast Official Website) - Judy Pancoast wrote and recorded a song called "The House on Christmas Street," which is getting to be one of the most popular modern Christmas songs that you have probably never heard on the radio. But it's playing at houses all over the world!
Just click here and see a sampling: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22house+on+christmas+street%22&search_type=&aq=f
Here's how this all came about ....and she didn't have a darned thing to do with it. The song is about that house in every town that really goes all out with the lights and decorations at Christmas time. Judy's best efforts to get radio airplay fell on deaf ears, as often happens with independent artists. After a few years, she gave up. But something very unusual happened with her song. In 2006, her husband was surfing the web when he came upon a video of a house in the Midwest that was, literally, playing my song! The owner had synchronized his lighting display to my music, and passers-by could tune in their radios to a low frequency station and hear the song and watch the light show.
As Christmas time approached that year, she found a few more videos of houses playing the song. Eventually, Judy found a networking website for decorating enthusiasts, www.planetchristmas.com, and when she introduced myself there they the community responded as though the Christmas Queen had landed. Judy was invited to their symposium in Gatlinburg, TN in August 2007, and there She was offered, and signed, a synchronization license with a company called Light-O-Rama, so that they could develop a software program to help their clients use my song in their displays. "The House on Christmas Street" is now the official theme song of PlanetChristmas.
Award-winning entertainer Judy Pancoast is an acclaimed children's musical artist whose exceptional original songs for children instantly captivate audiences of all ages and bring children and families together in a spirit of wholesome fun.
Judy earned her BA in Music from the University of Maine, and was a solo performing artist, the leader of two popular bands, and a successful radio announcer for many years. Her natural ease with children and belief that they receive an invaluable education through music led her to pursue and attain a Master's Degree in Education.With loyal fans among those aged 3 to 11, Judy has produced four popular collections of children's music. Her innovative song writing won her the coveted Children's Music Web 'Best Song for Young Children' award three times� for her songs Swimming in Jello, The Potty Dance and One Big Eyeball. Her 1998 recording, Candy, won a Parent's Choice Award. She released The Tune Room in September 2003, and received a best song of 2003 nod for I Love the Rain from KIOS - FM.
The House on Christmas Street CD has been hailed by reviewers as 'capturing a spirit of joy and innocence without the calculated syrup of Hollywood or Madison Avenue' All four of Judy's CDs have been endorsed by the Coalition for Quality Children's Media. Her music is heard regularly on XM Satellite Radio where she has been the host of two special programs. She can also be heard regularly as an announcer on Boston's Oldies 103.3.
Judy has taken her high-octane performances on the road, giving concerts at festivals, performing arts centers and wherever children and families gather in 48 U.S. states to date. She performed in concert twice by request for President Bill Clinton. Her repeat performances at A-list fundraiser for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids featured and annually at Robert DeNiro's Tribeca Film Festival Family Street Fair. She has traveled twice to Nairobi, Kenya, for week-long workshops, where she and the children of the Nyumbani Orphanage have written several songs together. Two of the songs are available on a fundraising CD for the orphanage.
Pancoast lives in New Hampshire with her husband, Philip and daughter Louisa (13), while eldest daughter Emma is a student at NYU. Judy is active in supporting many organizations dedicated to helping children including the Optimist Club International and the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
