Oberndorf bei Salzburg (Austria) (AFP) – Austria has something special to celebrate this festive period as it marks 200 years since the first performance of one of the world’s most beloved Christmas carols, “Silent Night”.
Celebrations of the anniversary will culminate with a special December 24 performance of “Stille Nacht” at the chapel in Oberndorf village, near Salzburg, where it was first performed 200 years ago to the day.
“We are expecting around 6,000 people this Christmas Eve, where normally we would have 3-4,000,” Clemens Konrad, the head of Oberndorf’s tourism office, told AFP. more here
For anyone who’s never heard her Sissel is a singer from Norway who does a version of Silent night thats just incredible. The womans voice is just amazing, the last verse of the song she hits notes I couldn’t believe humanly possible. Anyway that song gets played often around here at Christmas.
Give it a listen you won’t be disappointed.