I sang “Oh Come All Ye Faithful” – and they did!

As Christmas Day falls on a Sunday this year instead of a track of the week I’ve put together a Crotchety Christmas Playlist on Spotify. In the process I discovered several rather good Christmas albums. I recommend the playlist to accompany your festive turkey and afterwards I think you’ll find these yuletide collections will go down rather well:

• Pentatonix, A Pentatonix Christmas
• Joan Baez, Noel
• Annie Lennox, A Christmas Cornucopia
• Keith Emerson, The Christmas Album
• Steeleye Span, Winter

With the exception of Pentatonix those artists are probably familiar to followers of this blog so I won’t bore you by saying anything about them. Pentatonix are a five-piece a cappella group based in Arlington, Texas. They won NBC’s The Sing-Off in 2011 and have recorded several albums since. A Pentatonix Christmas is their latest offering; it was released in October 2016. And very good it is, too.

All that remains is for me to wish you all a very merry Christmas and may all your listening be pleasurable.