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Our thanks to 101.9 WLIF-FM, Baltimore’s Christmas Music Station, and the Archdiocese of Baltimore for bringing you, our listeners, another fantastic Christmas season.
Production on the 2025 edition of Christmas In Maryland is underway.
A very special thanks to Greg Carpenter, Gina Crash and all of our friends at WLIF-FM.
Christmas In Maryland
A five-hour audio journey allowing listeners to pause and feel the tradition that lives nestled between the mountains of western Maryland and the beaches of the Atlantic shore.
Christmas In Maryland takes you from the big city to the small towns of Maryland, capturing the stories of the season at every stop, all wrapped around your favorite holiday songs.
Christmas In Maryland has captured Maryland at Christmastime!
It’s a visit to world-famous 34th Street in Baltimore. It’s spending time with family in LIttle Italy on Christmas Eve. It’s tagging along with Santa on one of his visits to western Maryland, and living the dream of the Western Maryland Polar Express.
It’s also a sneak peak at what has become known as “Christmastown” in Pittsville on Maryland’s eastern shore.
You will also meet a couple from Cambridge who went to “Santa School” to learn how to become Santa & Mrs. Claus.
We’ll explain how hundreds of Marylanders have been starting the holiday season in north Baltimore since the early 2000’s. It involves brass, bagpipes and a cathedral.
We’ll also visit with famous Marylanders including Cal Ripken Jr., Brooks Robinson, Steve Bisciotti, and John Waters. Plus TV game-show legend Pat Sajak plays DJ for us and reveals what Christmas In Maryland means to him.
2024 Show | Hour by Hour
- Feature – Baltimore Holiday Brass Concert
- “Last Christmas” – Taylor Swift
- Feature – Christmas Memories of Yesteryear Santa Train
- “Santa Train” – Patty Loveless
- “All I Want for Christmas Is You” – Vince Vance and the Valiants
- Feature – Christmas in Saint Michael’s
- “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” – Bette Midler
- “Sleigh Ride” – New Christie Minstrels
- Feature – Santa Visits Western Maryland
- “Jingle Bell Rock” – Bobby Helms
- “The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle” – Herb Alpert
- Feature – The Budweiser Clydesdales visit Annapolis
- “Brazilian Sleigh Bells” – Ferrante & Teicher (Percy Faith)
- Feature – Baltimore German Christmas Market
- “My Favorite Things” – Barbra Streisand
- “A Holly Jolly Christmas” – Burl Ives
- Feature – Christmas in the Valley – Forest Hill, Maryland)
- “There’s No Place Like Home For the Holidays” – Carpenters
- Feature – Christmas Eve on Taylor’s Island
- “Christmas Is” – Percy Faith
- Feature – Cocoa, Caroling and Caring
- “The Man With All the Toys”– The Beach Boys
- Feature – Merriwether Symphony of Lights
- “Candy Cane Lane” – Sia
- “Spirit of the Season” – Alan Silvestri
- Feature – Western Maryland Polar Express
- “Believe” – Josh Groban
- Feature – Washington Monument Lighting & Christmas on 34th Street
- Feature – Pat Sajak talks about Christmas and introduces Christmas Hits
- “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” – Brenda Lee
- “It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas” – Johnny Mathis
- Feature – Pat Sajak continued…
- “White Christmas” – Bing Crosby
- Feature – Pat Sajak continued
- Feature – Christmas At Sea In Baltimore
- “A Maritime Christmas” – Lee Murdock
- “All Alone on Christmas” – Darlene Love
- Feature – The Capital Ringers – Ocean Pines, Maryland
- “Carol of the Bells” – Herb Alpert
- Feature – Christmas Confessions
- “Marshmallow World” – Darlene Love
- Feature – Christmastown – Pittsville, Maryland
- “We Need a Little Christmas” – Johnny Mathis
- Feature – Up on the Rooftop on Arunah
- “Up on a Housetop” – Jackson Five
- “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem/The Little Drummer Boy” – Mariah Carey
- Feature – Lessons and Carols at Saint Paul’s
- “Happy Sleighride” – Ferrante and Teicher
- Feature – Don and Susie Bartley Go to Santa School
- “Feliz Navidad”– Jose Feliciano
- Feature – Steve Bisciotti Christmas Memories
- “The Christmas Song” – Nat “King” Cole
- Feature – Steve Bisciotti Christmas Memories continued
- “Little Saint Nick” – The Beach Boys
- Feature – Annual Tangier Island Holly Run
- Feature – The History of Crabs for Christmas
- “Crabs for Christmas” – David DeBoy
- “Santa Claus”(My Christmas Wish) – Pat Lakatta
- Feature – Santa’s Catonsville Connection
- “Christmas Waltz” – Frank Sinatra
- “Medley: Happy Holidays/The Holiday Season” – Andy Williams
- Feature – Christmas in Little Italy
- “All Through the Night” – Olivia Newton John and Michael McDonald
- “Silent Night” – Eva Cassidy
- Feature – John Waters, Cal Ripken, Jr. Steve Bisciotti and Brooks Robinson perform The Night Before Christmas.
- Show close with credits