Songfest

It's beginning to look and sound a lot like Christmas when funnywoman Ellen DeGeneres hosts the 29th annual holiday songfest from the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the film, Tick's ambivalence and fear were palpable; here it's rendered with a sappy songfest that cheapens the experience. ❋ Fern Siegel (2011)

If American journalists are the Four Tops in this deficit songfest, Rivlin is Holland/Dozier/Holland. ❋ RJ (2010)

With the finis of the songfest, Harry spent the night getting his equipment out of the river bed. ❋ Michael Hiltzik (2010)

Miss Esterman loves music, and the past few days have been a constant songfest. ❋ Carlos Eire (2010)

Johnny wanted a psycho/horror/carny-sideshow songfest. ❋ Mickey Leigh (2009)

Added note: Last night, Sunday the 30th, the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir embarked in two vans and a pace car with a lawyer -- journeying from mid-town Manhattan to the Wal-Mart at Valley Stream, Long Island -- for a vigil and songfest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The officers stood across from the women throughout their entire songfest trying without success to hide their delight at the grandmas 'vocal offerings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In Palm Beach County, Betty Robbins served as cantor, tutored bar and bat mitzvah students, taught religious school, organized choirs and created a yearly zimriah (songfest) for schoolchildren. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was on display last month at the inauguration songfest at the Washington Monument, where the 89-year old Seeger joined Springsteen in leading more than half a million people on the mall and millions of people watching on TV in a rendition of "This Land is Your Land." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Principal among these is Illumination Night, which takes place in mid-August when, following a community songfest in the tabernacle, thousands of Chinese lanterns are lit and hung from the porches of surrounding cottages to be ogled by mobs of admirers who parade past them. ❋ Philip R. Craig (2008)

One of the networks, CTI, has increased its advertising revenue since its introduction of a popular songfest program, The Starlight Highway. ❋ Michael Turton (2008)

A [respected] [performer] who auditioned and became a Songfest Host. ❋ Theonethatknowsall24 (2011)