By Keith Mahne

It's Christmas time once again here on Disney Avenue and that can only mean one thing — Disney Park Christmas music loops are playing! Join us today as we take a listen to 3 recently added Christmas music loops from the Disney Parks that is sure to get you into the holiday spirit...

By Keith Mahne

It's Christmas time once again here on Disney Avenue and that can only mean one thing — Disney Park and Resort Christmas music loops are playing! Join us today as we take a listen to 17 of our favorite Christmas music loops from the Disney Parks and Resorts that is sure to get you into the holiday spirit...

By Keith Mahne

It's Christmas time once again here on Disney Avenue and that can only mean one thing — Disney Park and Resort Christmas music loops are playing! Join us today as we take a listen to 12 of our favorite Christmas music loops from the Disney Parks and Resorts that is sure to get you into the holiday spirit...

By Keith Mahne

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! Let's travel back to Walt Disney World of 1993 and join Kathie Lee Gifford, Trisha Yearwood, Peabo Bryson, Andy Williams and Robert Urich for this hour-long Christmas special that originally aired on the Disney Channel back on December 18, 1993. This is classic Disney Channel goodness and they just don't make them like this anymore. Join us today for A Musical Christmas at Walt Disney World...

By Keith Mahne

As Christmas soon approaches, you're invited to the jolliest, holliest celebration of them all. Come share in the fun and festivities with all your favorite Disney friends as they prepare Disneyland for the Holidays circa 1992. We'll join Mickey, Minnie and the gang in a holiday wonderland of parades, carolers, and good-old fashioned cheer, while they celebrate the Holiday Season as only Disney can. Join us today for the 1992 direct-to-video special called The Magic of Christmas at Disneyland...

By Keith Mahne

Disney's Candlelight Processional is one of the oldest and most beloved traditions in the over 62-year history of the Disney Parks. Join us today as we take a look back at the history of Disney's Candlelight Processional...

By Rebekah Coley

Even before the Halloween candy has been eaten, many are ready to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year! On that note, why not celebrate the most wonderful time of the year in the most wonderful place? In today’s article, Rebekah Coley discusses one of her favorite holiday celebrations in Walt Disney World – Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. Specifically, she discusses the magic and wonder of the newest castle show called "Mickey’s Most Merriest Celebration." Enjoy this glowing review as we continue to celebrate Christmas time the Disney way...

By Chris Lyndon

Disneyland has had a long tradition of presenting Christmas parades and this magical tradition goes back to the park's very beginnings. Join us today as we take a look back at the musical history of Christmas Parades in Disneyland...

By Keith Mahne

Ever since Disneyland's inaugural year, it seemed natural to celebrate the festivities of the holidays at the happiest place on earth, and so on November 24, 1955—Thanksgiving—Disneyland showcased its first holiday parade. Let's travel back to Disneyland's past and take a rare look at some of its Christmases of yesteryear...

By Keith Mahne

Walt Disney once called Christmas "that Disney time of year." It was no marketing ploy, either. Walt loved the Yuletide season. It's reflected in the entertainment he created over the decades, including charming holiday scenes shown in such movies as Fantasia, Lady and the Tramp, Swiss Family Robinson, and The Happiest Millionaire—which contains a heartwarming scene of Disney Legend Fred MacMurray and Greer Garson singing "It Won't Be Long 'Til Christmas." In the spirit of that great song and the holiday season that is now upon us, let's take a look inside Walt Disney's secret Christmas list files...

By Keith Mahne

It's Christmas time once again here on Disney Avenue and that can only mean one thing — Disney Park Christmas music loops are playing! Join us today as we fill you in on 11 of our favorite Christmas music loops from the Disney Parks you can now listen to all season long that will really get you into the holiday spirit...

By Keith Mahne

How many of you remember Epcot's jaw-dropping Lights of Winter Christmas display? You know, the one that debuted for Christmas of 1994 and was retired in January of 2009. For years, Epcot celebrated the spirit of the holidays with the Lights of Winter Christmas light show, an archway of lights synchronized to holiday orchestral music. Its loss continues to be lamented by those who were lucky enough to experience this Walt Disney World holiday tradition firsthand. Join us as we remember Epcot's Lights of Winter and watch the complete show before it closed in today's article...

By Keith Mahne

What's better than Christmas at Disneyland? Food, of course! Not just any food, I'm talking about Disneyland Christmas food. Today, we are about to embark on a one hour Food Network special that explores the amazing holiday destination that is Disneyland -- the fun, the experience, the added holiday excitement and charm, all wrapped up in the park's holiday themed meals and treats. This special will not only get you in the Disney Christmas spirit, it will have you wanting to eat your computer screen. Join us as we explore some scrumptious Disneyland Christmas treats and how they're made in today's new article...

By Kat Tretina

Each year, Epcot hosts one of Walt Disney World’s most popular events: the Candlelight Processional. This event features a celebrity narrator telling the story of the birth of Jesus, accompanied by a full orchestra and choir. Inside the American Garden Theater, which is in the very center of World Showcase, this is an intimate and beautiful holiday spectacle and a wonderful Christmas tradition for Disney fans the world over. Don't worry if you can't make it this year, here and now on Disney Avenue, we are going to visit this stunning Disney classic and capture a little piece of its magic in today's new article...

By Keith Mahne

We are about to get in the spirit of the season the 90s way with The Magic of Christmas at Walt Disney World, a 1992 direct-to-video special that was only available in the Disney Parks. We'll join Santa as he celebrates Christmas with Mickey Mouse and his pals at Walt Disney World. Come and revisit the Vacation Kingdom of the World during Christmas in the early 1990s in today's new article...

It's the most wonderful time of year here on the Disney Avenue Podcast and boy, what an amazing show we have in store for you. As many of you know, Christmas and Disney go hand in hand. I’ve yet to experience a Christmas display or Spectacle anywhere on earth that can top Disney. The beautiful lights and decorations along Main Street, the beauty of Cinderella Castle decked out in millions of lights and, of course, that little light show over in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, the truly breathtaking Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. As many of you may have heard by now, this year, 2015, will be the last year that Disney will be showcasing this 20-year-old holiday tradition. And so, with the Holiday Season now upon us and with the closing of the Osborne Lights, I thought, what can we do here on the Disney Avenue Podcast to really capture that Disney Christmas spirit, what can we do to entertain our listeners and bring them more of our signature interviews, history and stories from big names in the Disney stratosphere? And then it hit me! Why not continue a Disney Avenue Podcast Christmas Tradition by inviting the top Disney historian and author on the planet earth to come on the show and tell us all about the history of the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights and other gone but not forgotten Walt Disney World Christmas classics. So friends, it is with Christmas cheer and everything holly and jolly, to welcome back for a third time to the Disney Avenue Podcast, the one and only, Jim Korkis. Continue after the page break and let the Christmas memories begin…

By Daisy Sparks

The Holiday Season and the Disneyland Resort go together like coal and bad kids. It's the time of year for giving and for taking strolls around Disney Parks like Disney California Adventure which is what we are going to do in today's new article by Daisy Sparks. DCA is absolutely gorgeous this time of year and so, if you'd like to take a peek inside the Park and see all the beautiful Christmas decorations, join us in today's new article and see Christmas at Disney California Adventure...

By Keith Mahne

What would the Disney Parks be without their cast members? I mean no cast members, no magic, right? Well, I have something to share with you that I think you're really going to enjoy! It happened at a Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party in 2006. A cast member dressed as Gideon Cat from Pinocchio decided they were going to "let it all hang out" and really get down. I have no doubt this will put a smile on your face and is just another example of cast members going above and beyond to create the magic. Continue after the page break and have a look for yourself...

By Keith Mahne

We have a wonderful little film for you today that is sure to cause those warm, nostalgic, Christmas memories to come flooding in. It's an episode of the beloved Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color that originally aired back on December 23, 1962 on NBC. Grab some popcorn and a nice cup of hot chocolate and join us today as we watch the wonderful film Holiday Time at Disneyland starring the man himself, Walt Disney...

By Keith Mahne

Let's continue the Holiday Season the vintage Disney way with the 1958 tale of A Christmas Adventure in Disneyland. Today we'll take a listen to the story from a 1958 Disneyland Records LP that is sure to get those Christmas memories flowing. It's about two children, named John and Jane, on an adventure at Disneyland during Christmas Eve. This grand LP even included a full size booklet with some beautiful art that you'll see as well that covers eleven pages. So friends, ready to get in the Christmas spirit? Join us today for the 1958 audio adventure presented by Walt Disney titled A Christmas Adventure in Disneyland...