"Christmas music always brings a warmness and peace to my heart. In general, Christmas songs have holiday themes directly taken from Christmas or have themes addressing the holiday and the winter season. Currently my recorded works focus on the group of Christmas music known as Christmas Carols.They are traditional and mostly religious in context and the choice songs reflects my memories of my youth in a small town in northern Minnesota.

These two recordings have different flavors. A Light Classical Christmas uses only the nylon string classical guitar with string trio accompaniment and has a ‘chamber music’ feel to it. Angels, Guitars, and Joy uses multiple guitars including the classical guitar, steel string acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, and even an electric guitar performing with an ‘e-bow’.  An ‘e-bow’ is an electronic bow that causes the strings on an electric guitar to vibrate continuosly. A very unique sound. The flavor of Angels, Guitars, and Joy is much more acoustic new age but still has a significant component of classical and classical guitar as well." - Darren Curtis Skanson