The Heffners have delivered a beautiful Christmas album for all to enjoy! Traditional as well as timely, with warm memories of Christmas holidays - past & present. A CLASSIC - Loaded with rich harmonies and beautiful orchestrations. Grammy nomination?

14 MP3 Songs in this album (45:12) !
Related styles: Holiday: Kids/Family, Holiday: Easy Listening, Mood: Christmas

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In our family, Christmas caroling has been an annual tradition. It started when we were little tikes, singing in the children's choir at Christmas time. Being a large family, 8 brothers and sisters, we would go caroling in our neighborhood with our parents, cousins, aunts, uncles and friends. Later we would sing Christmas carols at the dinner table and on Christmas Day.
Mom and Dad would be caroling right along with us. Their love of singing began in their teens and twenties, when Mom sang professionally with her sisters (similar to The Andrew Sisters) for the soldiers at the USO, and Dad performed with a Big Band. It's no surprise that we have carried on this wonderful family tradition. In fact, we have taken it a step further --- making this Christmas album.

Influenced by the 40's style of music and everything since then, we embarked on a professional singing career. We were young when we started, from 11 years of age to 20. Moving from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Colorado Springs, where we continued to mature as a vocal group, we later moved to Los Angeles to further our career. There, working with top arrangers and producers, we performed in various clubs and venues including THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL. Among our other performances in L.A. were TV shows - THE GONG SHOW (We won!), THE BIG BREAK with Natalie Cole (similar to today's 'American Idol' and 'America's Got Talent'), and various other guest appearances. Natalie Cole described our harmonies as "blood harmonies that only a family can have."

Eventually, we all moved back to Colorado, where we now call home. All this time, we never stopped singing Christmas carols. When the idea was brought up by Mom to create a Family Christmas Album, we couldn't imagine how this would come about, with all of us now having our own families and other careers. We decided that the only way to make this happen would be to recruit the top talent from L.A. with whom we had worked before. We asked our friends - Neil Argo* and Bob Alcivar**, very talented arrangers/producers/composers, to work with us in creating a memorable Christmas Album. To make this a real Family Christmas Album, Mom and her sister Marlene, a concert piantist, have added their musical talents. Mom sings the "Ave Maria" on the album and Marlene is featured in two medleys. So now, having come full circle, we present to you our Family Legacy --- THE HEFFNERS-A FAMILY CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT.

Many thanks to those who have supported us along the way, from Valentine at Studio.V in Colorado Springs, who spent many hours with us, perfecting our vocal performances in his state-of-the-art studio, to Keith Wechsler, our new friend from L.A., a magician at mixing and mastering albums, to our friends, families, parents, sisters and brothers - who have all contributed to this CD with their love and support. This Christmas CD is dedicated to all of them and to all of you.

*Neil Argo is a music composer for motion pictures and television shows - 'Beverly Hills 90210', 'The New Mission: Impossible', 'National Geographic-Wild America', and 'MacGyver', among others.

**Bob Alcivar - During his career as a top vocal arranger in Los Angeles, Bob has arranged for, or arranged and produced - Seals & Crofts, The Fifth Dimension, The Manhattan Transfer, The Beach Boys, The Association, The Sandpipers, Tom Waits, among others, in addition to his writing music scores for numerous television movies and feature motion pictures.

May God bless you and may you have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

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