A YORK singer songwriter is celebrating not one but two successful Christmas concerts in the city.

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

I love Cardinal Dolan. He’s the wonderful shepherd of this huge flock in the metropolitan New York area,” one mass-goer said.

The annual ritual of picking the best is never easy. But after careful consideration and some (pleasurable) relistening, ...