Chelsea Carlson has released her first holiday album A Cozy Christmas, which is available on Bandcamp. The a singer-songwriter from Mount Olive, New Jersey, produced, recorded, and mixed the album herself. It features eight traditional holiday songs reimagined for 2020 with 25% of the profits earned this year from the album going to Hope's Promise Equine Assisted Activities in Chester, New Jersey.
The album contains her takes on "Jingle Bells," "Jolly Old Saint Nicolas," "The First Noel," "I Saw Three Ships," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "We Three Kings," "Silent Night," and "What Child Is This?"
Chelsea believes these eight traditional Christmas songs are perfect listening material for a cozy December night in your favorite pajamas with a cup of hot cocoa. She hopes listeners will find this collection to be both nostalgic and exciting. The album was recorded in the Zen Zone (Brick, NJ) and is available for $8 or more at Bandcamp.
She returned home to Mount Olive in 2011 after attending Berklee College of Music. Chelsea began performing throughout the tri-state area and was awarded Top New Female Act at the Jersey Acoustic Music Awards. Her first album of original music, The Broken Road, was released in 2016. She has played at over 100 venues and festivals with her music played on numerous radio stations across the country. In addition to this Christmas album, she is currently in production for her folk trio Bardy Pardy's debut album, and in pre-production for her next solo album of original music as well.
In recent years, Chelsea has followed her love of performance on new adventures, including roles in community theater plays such as It’s a Wonderful Life at County College of Morris, short films such as "The Sugartits: A Pop Star Parody," and has been part of the cast of the New Jersey Renaissance Faire for four seasons. Additionally, Chelsea teaches music lessons in voice, guitar, piano, ukulele, and bass and enjoys opening up the world of music to her students.
Hope's Promise Equine Assisted Activities provides pet therapy style visits to nursing homes and hospitals with their miniature horses, as well as riding therapy and an outreach program for children from underserved communities to develop confidence and self-esteem through work with their horses.
Join us for McCarter at the Museum - renowned performing artists in one-night only events at the Princeton University Art Museum.
Jason Robert Brown is a four-time Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist of The Last Five Years, Parade, Songs for a New World, 13, The Bridges of Madison County, Honeymoon In Vegas and The Connector, has performed as a soloist or with his band in venues around the world, including sold-out shows at the London Palladium and Carnegie Hall. His albums as a singer-songwriter include Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes and How We React and How We Recover on Ghostlight, and Coming From Inside the House and Live In Concert with Stephen Sondheim on Concord.
With Special Guest Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe. Tony Award-nominated actress Betsy Wolfe is currently starring as Audrey in the acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors, following her recent Broadway run as Madeline Ashton in the hit musical Death Becomes Her. She previously originated the title role in Joy, the new musical inspired by inventor Joy Mangano, and earned a 2023 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her celebrated performance as Anne Hathaway in & Juliet. Other Broadway credits include starring as Jenna in Waitress, Cordelia in the acclaimed revival of Falsettos, Bullets Over Broadway, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Everyday Rapture, and 110 in the Shade, as well as her critically acclaimed performance as Cathy in the Off-Broadway revival of The Last Five Years. Wolfe made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Die Fledermaus and has appeared as a guest artist with more than 65 symphony, pops, and philharmonic orchestras worldwide, including the New York Philharmonic and BBC Symphony Orchestra, with performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. Her screen credits include First One In, Estella Scrooge, CBS’s Instinct, and the film adaptation of The Last Five Years. Wolfe is also the co-founder of BroadwayEvolved, the acclaimed musical theatre training program she launched in 2018 to train and mentor the next generation of theatre artists.
A limited number of early access tickets for McCarter Director’s Circle members and members of the Museum’s Partner Circle are available, on sale Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM. General public on sale begins Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM.
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