David Archuleta’s name just keeps popping up all over the news these days. His effect is global: with his presence in Central America helping and inspiring young business entrepreneurs or his heartfelt suggestion to aid those in desperate need in the wake of the Haiti earthquake.

Many Christmas shows have been inspired by David Archuleta. Many of the songs he has sung on his Christmas Tour have been implemented into many of their repertoire.

Christmas shows raise funds for local causes
By Dina Samfield, Correspondent for Nashoba Publishing
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SHIRLEY — The Shirley Touring Children’s Christmas Choir recently presented two concerts to raise funds for local non-profit organizations.

On the evening of Saturday, Dec. 19 at the Shirley Middle School, students Alexis Blackwell, Dylan Bourassa, Nasia Bykov, Kenna DeLong, Jillian Deshler, Hannah Doiron, Brooke Farley, Brianna Finnegan, Sydney Greeno, Jocelyn Hart, Michaela Hoffmann, Rebecca King, Riley Korhonen, Sydney Korhonen, Jeanne McCarron, Isabella Oliviera, Anna Pedreschi, Ashlyn Prehl, Raiven Quirk, and Hannah Wilkerson sang with the Shirley Community Adult Choir.

Members of the adult choir were: Ralph Bridges Gail Dolan, Marie Elwyn, Donna Ferriera, Lela Male, Ruth Maxant, Cindy McCarthy, Polly McGrath, Chris Olson, Emily Olson, John Rounds, Adele Sullivan, Lauren Sullivan and Wendy Welton.

The singing group “A Goodlie Companye”, featuring members Cheryl Hayden, Sheila Hunter, Bob Jacobs, Ann Jakiela, Dave Samanen, Diane Seiler, Larry Seiler and Div Slomin, joined them in the performance.

The event raised $725 for Loaves and Fishes, which feeds 400 families each week, and provides emergency shelter, resource referrals, and other temporary services for its clients.

Songs sung by the children’s choir included “Jingle Bell Hop” and “Reindeer Boogie.” The adult choir’s repertoire included “Riu, Riu, Chiu,” or “Nightingale’s Sounds,” a Spanish composition written [sic] by David Archuleta.

I am sure they meant Melodies of Christmas.

Selections sung by A Goodlie Companye, with help from the children’s choir, included the French Christmas carol “Pat-a-Pan,” and the Christmas spiritual “Have You Heard the Story?”

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This Sunday during the Golden Globes awards ceremony, live on NBC 8:00 EST, look for the new Oscar Mayer TV commercials. Specifically, listen to the tune, which was composed by Joy Williams, a Nashville singer-songwriter. We fans of David know who Joy Williams is! With David Hodges and Steven McMorran, Joy co-wrote “Waiting for Yesterday” for David Archuleta. The song was included as a bonus track on the iTunes Deluxe Edition of David’s self-titled debut album released on November 11, 2008.

Kudos to Joy Williams!

…McGarryBowen asked several musicians to compose songs, and settled on one from Joy Williams, a Nashville-based songwriter who has written for the American Idol contestants Mandisa and David Archuleta. She wrote what ended up being the tag line for the whole campaign, “It doesn’t get better than this.”

It sounds like a pop song one might hear on a light-FM station, wedged between Natasha Bedingfield and Ingrid Michaelson: “I’ve got everything I want right here right now, sun keeps shining like it won’t ever go down, oh it’s pure bliss, my world is brighter,” and so on into the sunshine.

The television commercials are scheduled to begin running during the Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday. They show cheerful scenes from suburban life: a little girl giggling and pulling apart bologna in the backseat of a sport utility vehicle as her mother looks on affectionately; a working mother pulling toys out of her brown-bag lunch, then an Oscar Mayer premade sandwich, and calling her son to thank him for packing it; parents waking up their sleepy teenager with the smell of frying bacon.

via Advertising – Back to the Oscar Mayer Joy, but Not the Jingles – NYTimes.com.

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Beginning tomorrow the Photo of the Week will be written by Honeybee 3cota.

The job is the same—only the columnist has changed. Each week 3cota will choose one photo of David Archuleta, analyze the ‘lights & darks’ of it, the artistic merits, and credit the professional, amateur, or fan photographer.

• published on Fridays
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Let’s give a big round of applause to topazjazz who has done a fabulous job for several weeks. Please check out her Photos of the Week. In the coming months, she’ll be travelling and attending to family ‘buzzness’.

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There seems to be a never-ending supply of pictures I have archived of David Archuleta’s concerts this Holiday Tour. These are some of my favorites. OMG, I say that with all his pictures. Haha! It seems like such a long time ago but it was only last month these picture were taken. His smile and laughter make the best shots ever. Enjoy!

photos by pam pike

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