(TV) Velvet Channel To Air ANDRE RIEU, MICHAEL BUBLE AND ROD STEWART’s Timeless Musical

Fun party channel Velvet airs timely prized musical Christmas collections featuring Andre Rieu’s “Home for Christmas”, Michael Buble’s Christmas Special and Rod Stewart’s “Merry Christmas, Baby”.

Andre Rieu’s album “Home for Christmas” is packed with the most-loved Christmas tunes as it contains 26 songs he recorded with his Johann Strauss Orchestra. A magical two-hour special was performed in his fabled castle in Maastricht, The Netherlands where viewers can get a glimpse of the lavish castle. Don’t miss this grand concerto by the King of the Waltz on Velvet on these dates: December 14 (Friday) at 1pm, December 22 (Saturday) at 2pm, December 25 (Tuesday) at 9am (part of the Best of 2012 Marathon).

It looked like Michael couldn’t have a better 2012 than he did last year when his CD ‘Christmas’ sold over 2.5 million copies in the US (second largest selling CD following Adele)  and 7 million copies worldwide. There’s no question that 2012 was another landmark year for Michael Bublé and one that reaffirms his enormous global success, especially in the UK where the CHRISTMAS album has already gone six times platinum (1.8 million) and spent three weeks in the No. 1 . Catch The Micheal Buble Christmas Special on : December  20 (Thursday) at 9 pm, December 21 ( Friday) at 1 pm, December 22  (Saturday) 4:30 pm, December 25 (Tuesday) at  8:00 am (part of the Best of 2012 Marathon).

Grammy award-winning and two time Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Rod Stewart will serenade viewers through his first ever Christmas album composed of 13 Christmas tunes. He will be joined by a number of A-List guests like Michael Bublé, who duets with Rod on “Winter Wonderland”, Mary J. Blige on “We Three Kings” and Cee-Lo Green featuring New Orleans’ favorite son, Trombone Shorty  on the title tune “Merry Christmas, Baby”. Listen to these songs and more on these dates: December 27 (Thursday) at 7 pm, December 28 (Friday) at 1 pm, December 29 (Saturday) at 4 pm  and January 1 (Tuesday) at 7:30 am (part of the Best of 2012 Marathon). 

Catch all of these on Velvet (SkyCable Channel 53) , available on SkyCable Platinum, SkyCable Gold, SkyCable Silver and other quality cable operators nationwide. For updates, log-on to http://www.velvet.com.ph/ and http://www.facebook.com/VelvetChannel.