{"id":2335807,"date":"2026-03-18T23:09:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2335807"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:09:26","slug":"unexpected-christmas-music-plays-during-new-jerseys-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/unexpected-christmas-music-plays-during-new-jerseys-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Christmas music plays during New Jersey&#8217;s St. Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to use the names of the people involved or the venue where this took place because I\u2019m not trying to dox anyone, but I do feel like this was too funny a story to not share with you.<\/p>\n<p>I had friends coming into New Jersey over the weekend for a St. Patrick\u2019s Day party, and they made their accommodations in a hotel.<\/p>\n<p>They were staying for two nights, coming in on Friday, Mar. 13, and leaving on Sunday, Mar. 15.<\/p>\n<p>The morning after the first night, housekeeping came in to tidy up the room. In order to get out of the way of the workers, the two hung out for a bit in the hotel lobby.<\/p>\n<p>After a small amount of time, they noticed something strange.<\/p>\n<p>Despite it being Mar. 14, Christmas music was echoing throughout the hotel lobby.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\"><b>Read More:\u00a0<\/b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nj1015.com\/holiday-workout-songs\/?utm_source=tsmclip&amp;utm_medium=referral\">How holiday music can boost your workout routine<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Christmas Music<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Photo by David Beale on Unsplash\/ Canva\/ TSM Illustrations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h4><em>Christmas music in March?<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>It would be one thing if it were mid-summer and they were celebrating Christmas in July, but that wasn\u2019t the case here.<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just one instrumental song that played as a glitch\u2026 I\u2019m telling you it was a full Christmas playlist, and it went on the entire time they sat there.<\/p>\n<p>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Christmas Song, White Christmas, Auld Lang Syne, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, if you\u2019ve heard it while placing an ornament on a Christmas tree branch, they heard it in this hotel lobby in the middle of March.<\/p>\n<p>No one else seemed to be concerned or put off by the music of choice.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I\u2019ll chalk it up to a new tradition that I wasn\u2019t aware of. 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Mikie Sherril&#8217;s first N.J. budget<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No new taxes on individuals<\/strong> in the proposed state budget<\/li>\n<li><strong>$2.6B in budget solutions<\/strong> to close the deficit<\/li>\n<li>Nearly <strong>$2B in spending cuts<\/strong> across state government<\/li>\n<li><strong>$700M in new revenue<\/strong> from closing corporate tax loopholes<\/li>\n<li>Plan aims to <strong>balance the budget structurally by 2028<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: New Jersey 101.5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of New Jersey 101.5&#8217;s Kylie Moore. Any opinions expressed are Kylie&#8217;s own. You can follow Kylie on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kyliem00re\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nj1015.com\/christmas-songs-march-surprise\/mailto:trenton.dme@townsquaremedia.com?subject=Feedback or correction\">Report a correction<\/a> \ud83d\udc48<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/nj1015.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=127&#038;gver=10&#038;bid=385&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3D1MWvTN3FkUAy4vrMcw4AXQIkp6qMJ3RlVc2f&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nj1015.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not going to use the names of the people involved or the venue where this took place because I\u2019m not trying to dox anyone, but I do feel like this was too funny a story to not share with you. I had friends coming into New Jersey over the weekend for a St. Patrick\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2335808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[452459,432963,411209],"class_list":["post-2335807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-deminski-moore","tag-talking-about","tag-ultimate-new-jersey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Unexpected-Christmas-music-plays-during-New-Jerseys-St-Patricks-Day.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335809,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335807\/revisions\/2335809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}