Vancouver Singing Christmas Tree celebrates 50th anniversary

Since 1967, thousands of people have basked in the warm glow and angelic voices of the Singing Christmas Tree at Broadway Church, whose deep roots in the Lower Mainland have helped the concert grow into a lively variety show now drawing close to 20,000 spectators each winter.
Some of its cast and crew, like 83-year-old singer Lillian Hanson, have been involved since Day 1, when the branches could hold up to 47 singers and were made with freshly cut evergreen boughs stapled to planks. The ‘