Rock around the Christmas tree! I'm just not into the more 'modern' Christmas music. I can take small doses, but mostly it's early music, or the carols done by John Rutter's Cambridge Singers, or the choir of the King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England.
My favorite Christmas Eve morning activity is either cooking, or wrapping gifts while listening to the public radio broadcast of "A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols", from King's College Chapel. It's about an hour and a half of pure bliss for me! I'm in our Parish Choir, and a couple of years ago, we started singing an abbreviated "Lessons and Carols" in the half hour before Midnight Mass, and I love it!
The Gatlins’ album is mostly traditional carols, with beautiful harmonies as only close relatives can do.
We usually watch the Christmas concert from St. Olaf College in Minnesota (I think), on PBS shortly before Christmas. I’ll have to check the PBS listings online. It’s the only broadcast tv station we get, and then only if the sky is clear and the wind is right!
Our family has a Spanish choir. Usually we don’t get to go to Christmas Mass together because there aren’t enough seats, but this year there’s a Spanish Mass, so we’ll be able to go together even if the other Spanish music group is playing. The last time we tried - maybe when I was expecting James? - I had to go to Confession afterward. People are so selfish!