KLCC's 2025 Holiday Program Guide

Happy Holidays from all of us at KLCC! We've got a programming lineup packed with delights for the darkest days of the year with a variety of musical genres and moods. Consider this your program guide for what you'll hear.

Pink Martini's Joy To The World: A Holiday Spectacular is one of the many great programs you'll hear this season.

Monday, December 29

7:00pm - NPR Special: Cineplexity - Smart Conversations About Movies

NPR film lovers take movies seriously, exploring themes like how to get time travel right in movies, what draws so many men to Nora Ephron films and why we all seem to love movies about the movies. In this one hour special, NPR host Scott Detrow shares the best movie conversations the team at All Things Considered and NPR’s Culture Desk had over the past year.

Wednesday, December 31 New Year's Eve 🥳

8:00pm - Toast of the Nation

It's festive jazz you can party to, all night long (and we mean it, we're taking it all the way to 4:00am January 1)! Hosted by NPR Music's Christian McBride.

Thursday, January 1 New Year's Day

2:00pm - NPR Special: Cineplexity - Smart Conversations About Movies

Saturday, January 3

3:00pm Musicians Memorial

Tune in for the second half of Paul Ingles' annual tribute music mix featuring just some of the notable musicians who've passed in 2025. Luminaries like Joe Ely, Johnny Rodriquez, Connie Francis, Marianne Faithfull, Cleo Laine, Joe Louis Walker, Bobby Sherman, Robert John, Mark Volman and others are each honored with a full play of one of their classic performances.

Monday, January 5

7:00pm - NPR Special: Beyond the Headlines - NPR Correspondents on the Craft of Reporting

Host Scott Detrow talks with NPR Correspondents, going "beyond the headlines" to explore the craft of reporting stories. Reporters open their notebooks and share the ways they find stories and bring them to the audience. Topics include riding a migrant train across Mexico in the dead of night, how to get Elon Musk’s attention and what it was like to cover the Sean Combs trial.