Less than three weeks until Christmas Day! Franklin Road is looking brighter, the tree is shining in the Viaduct, and Santa's taken up residence at Smith & Caughey's!

At Auckland Libraries we're sending out Christmas songbooks for ukulele, music CDs of Johnny Cash's Christmas collection and much more. Check our catalogue to see what else we have.

And check out the Council website here for your local Christmas events!

Here are our song picks for the last four days of Advent:

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Inspired by the Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound's Advent Calendar, our music team, with the helpful suggestions of library colleagues, will post our favourite Christmas song for each day through Advent leading up to Christmas Day.

As it's already the second, let's kick it off with two goodies:
(Click on the titles for a link to CDs in our collection)

Steve Earle: Nothing but a child

Tim Minchin: White wine in the sun