I often get chills when the holiday season rolls in, white lights start to appear everywhere, and children are seen frolicking in the malls looking for Santa. I was close to offended by receiving this CD, because only 5 of the 13 tracks are a cappella, and the other 8 don't even come close. There are a cappella groups out there that occasionally use instruments, but the songs that have instruments usually still have harmonic singing that goes along with them. The recording quality was one that I really didn't enjoy. There was WAY too much reverberation, and the sound production was somewhat scratchy.
Soloists do give it their all and have a very polished, professional sound.
They certainly can schmooze which gets very tiring very quickly. The basses get a basic line and everyone else sings. You certainly won't want to 'crank your stereo' for this group. I have other CDs to review by this group. Hopefully they'll be more a cappella and less of what I found on this one, otherwise it'll do nothing but dampen my spirit.