Alicia Witt is teasing a new chapter in her music career.
The Hallmark actress, best known for her roles in holiday favorites, such as “Christmas Tree Lane,” “A Very Merry Mix Up,” and “Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane,” has also built a parallel career in music. While Witt is widely recognized for her on-screen work with a number of acclaimed directors like David Lynch, the singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist has also cultivated a loyal fanbase for her music over the years, and it appears that she has no signs of slowing down.
In a recent social media update, Witt shared that she was visiting Nashville’s legendary United Record Pressing, the largest and oldest vinyl record manufacturer in the country, where her forthcoming album is being prepared for release. She also revealed that two of her earlier albums, “The Conduit” and “I Think I’m Spending Christmas With You” are being revisited in an fresh new way that already has fans buzzing.
Witt Announces Upcoming Vinyl Pressings at Legendary Record Plant
“Visiting the legendary record plant here in nashville where not only is my new, soon to be released album about to be made into vinyl – but 2 of my previous ones are being re-pressed!” Witt wrote in the caption of her April 28 Instagram post. “The Conduit and I Think I’m Spending Christmas With You are just about to go into production, with spiffy colored vinyl for their 2nd pressings. thank you Cam Sarrett for the tour and for taking good care in setting everything up for me.”
Fans in the comment section shared their excitement for the actress’ upcoming project:
“Congratulations! @aliciawitty Really looking forward to this release of your next musical masterpiece!! 👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌❤️❤️❤️Also prayers for you and Ernest to stay safe during these bad storms passing through your region the next several days.🙏🙏🙏” one fan wrote.
Another fan chimed in, “woohoo! new album! plus spiffy colors! CONGRATULATIONS Alicia! ding dang excited. diggin’ this vinyl fever! thanks for sharing this way cool viewing inside the magic of music to vinyl in the legendary record plant! ohhhh yeahhh! shout-out to Cam Sarrett! 🙌🏻🎹🎶✨ ⏺️❤️💫”
“New Vinyl AND new colored pressing of The Conduit and I Think I’m Spending Christmas With You!!!!! YAY!!!! Excited for you!!! 🧡🧡🧡😊” another fan added.
Witt Wrote & Preformed Original Music for ‘Christmas Tree Lane’
In addition to starring in and executive producing the film, Witt contributed an original song that her character, Meg Reilly, performs. The song “Christmas Will Never End” was released as a single in 2020 to coincide with the premiere of the film. Like Witt, Meg is a pianist and a singer-songwriter who works as a music teacher and helps her father run his music shop on the historic Christmas Tree Lane, which she is spearheading the effort to save from demolition, per the official synopsis on Hallmark Mystery.
Witt starred opposite Andrew Walker as Nate, who works for the company Meg’s fighting against. The cast also includes Drake Hogestyn and Briana Price.
In an interview with TV Fanatic, Witt went into detail about her song “Christmas Will Never End.” She explained that the song was completed only a couple of days before she had to travel to Utah to film. “So, the scenes in the movie where Meg is in the process of writing the song were filmed only a couple of weeks after I had finished writing the song myself,” Witt said.
She continued, “I wanted it to be a song that was obviously not only a love song, reflecting how she’s coming to feel for Nate and the miracle that he is in her life, but also during the course of the film, as Meg is coming to terms with the fact that they may very well lose Christmas Tree Lane, she’s also coming around to the understanding that even if they do, the memories that they share and the community that they’ve built over generations will be everlasting despite that.”
