Michael Buble helps kick off the holiday season in Vancouver
It’s beginning to look a lot like … you know the rest.
The holiday season is officially underway in Vancouver after some help from local star Michael Bublé.
The global crooner joined radio presenter Ray Grover on MOVE 103.5 to flip the Christmas switch at 4 p.m. Friday, when the station started playing Christmas music 24/7.
“It just wouldn’t be Christmas in Vancouver without MOVE 103.5’s playlist and to have Michael Bublé joining us, who is such a part of the fabric of the station, is an amazing way to kick start the holiday season,” said Brad Challoner, the station’s assistant program director and music director, in a news release.
Move has been making the switch to all-Christmas music for 12 years, but this year it’s happening earlier than normal.
“It’s been a tough couple years and (we thought) why don’t we spread a little joy … soon, sooner than we have before, and people are into it,” Grover said.
During an interview with Grover, Bublé said he was “genuinely excited” for the switch to all-Christmas music, especially after another year of a living through the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It’s been a tough couple years for all of us and I think we can agree that we were scared and anxious, and I think that when we get scared as human beings we can lose our greatest attributes,” Bublé said.
The Burnaby local has become synonymous with Christmas and believes it is a “privilege and honour” that people still play his album every year, even if there are jokes about him “coming out of a cave” in time for the holidays.
“Of course I see the memes and hear the jokes,” he said. “I’m not actually living in a cave and I’m so humble it hurts.”
MOVE 103.5’s switch to Christmas music will run until midnight on Boxing Day.
MOVE 103.5 is a division of Bell Media, which also owns CTV News.
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