NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Razor & Tie Entertainment) - Five time Grammy award winner
Michael McDonald will release This Christmas
September 29. The album includes 12 yuletide classics, all infused with McDonald's unmistakable vocal stylings. Performing songs from THIS CHRISTMAS, McDonald will be a featured on both QVC's Q Sessions Live on August 25th and is scheduled to perform on PBS Soundstage (PBS National) to air Thanksgiving weekend. McDonald is currently on the road and will continue tour through the holiday season (full tour dates below).
This Christmas showcases Michael McDonald's twist on holiday favorites such as "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "White Christmas," as well as McDonald's versions of the Stevie Wonder Motown classic, "What Christmas Means to Me" and the Donny Hathaway song, "This Christmas." The album includes a special duet on "I'll Be Home for Christmas" with his 17 year old daughter, Scarlett.
With a career spanning nearly thirty years, Michael McDonald remains the artist's artist and an enduring presence in popular music. He has enjoyed tremendous commercial and creative success, winning an impressive five Grammys and earned innumerable chart successes, and sales feats. From his early work with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers, McDonald's writing and singing lead on songs "Takin' It to the Streets," "What a Fool Believes," "Minute by Minute," and other signature songs, have made him a prominent part of the soundtrack to our times.
His solo career includes such hits as "Sweet Freedom," "Yah Mo B There" "On My Own" with Patti LaBelle (which reached #1 on the Pop and R&B charts and #3 on the AC charts), "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)" (reached the top 5 on the Pop charts and the top 10 on both the R&B and AC charts), as well as his platinum selling Motown releases with the hit of the cover "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."
Every release highlights the wide breadth of his career and an almost matchless consistency through years of recording and performing.
Track list:
1. That's What Christmas Means To Me
2. This Christmas
3. White Christmas
4. Wexford Carol
5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
6. Peace
7. On This Night
8. Children Go Where I Send Thee
9. Every Time Christmas Comes Around
10. O Come, O Come Emanuel
11. I'll Be Home For Christmas
12. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
MICHAEL McDONALD tour dates:
September
11 Kansas City, KS City Motor Speedway
13 Indiana, PA Fisher Auditorium
15 New Brunswick, NJ State Theatre*
17 Mashantucket, CT MGM Grand at Foxwoods*
18 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Casino*
19 New York, NY Beacon Theatre*
December
5 Snoqualmie, WA Snoqualmie Casino Events Center
9 Primm, NV Star of the Desert Arena
11 Visalia, CA Visalia Fox Theatre
12 San Jose, CA San Jose Civic Auditorium
13 Turlock, CA Turlock Community Theatre
16 Westbury, NY Capitol One Bank Theatre
17 Virginia Beach, VA Sandler Centre for the Performing Arts
18 Wilkes Barre, PA Kirby Center for the Performing Arts
*with Boz Scaggs
**dates subject to change
