Holiday

[raspberrygal]

It's today.  Does anybody carol in your town?  Do you?

[wilma]

Our choir went caroling yesterday at a local nursing home. Some of our parishioners go there weekly to minister to their needs. Very joyful and uplifting experience for the residents, staff, and choir members. 

[ValuSkr]

I went caroling when I was in the church youth group.  We went to shut-ins.  I don't know if they were told in advance or if we all just showed up at their front doors.  This was a few years ago, of course.

[We rescue cats]

My sorority sister 'family' used to, one of the hubbies wired his pick-up to accept Christmas lights and our group would collect names of folks that needed a lift for the holidays and we would go to the homes and sing carols, we had a grand time and what we may have lacked in talent we made up in enthusiasm!

[Oznell]

@raspberrygal ,  I used to go caroling in the snow in a church youth group.  More recently, at church, a bunch of us would go to a local assisted living facility. 

Very occasionally, we've been surprised by carolers singing and walking down our street, a few days before Christmas. 

It's the most fantastic thing-- first you hear faint sounds in the distance, then they get closer and closer, and you can make out the carols they're singing. Love it.  The last time it happened was a few years ago.

Ours is the kind of town where things like that happen, periodically.

Judy Garland's famous early Sixties Christmas Show  (streams free online) has a fab caroling scene.  Judy's supposedly spending Christmas Eve at home with the kids ( and singer Jack Jones, among others) and who should arrive but the one and only Mel Torme and a merry band of carolers.

They take over, and the songs ring out majestically, including a rousing "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen".

Mel and Judy caroling were dynamite: