A Very Lalias Christmas is local avant-ambient folk duo Lalias' third annual secular exploration of the ghosts of the winter holiday. Using holiday-themed texts including Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales, and Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, along with writings by Jeff Resta and Santa Fe favorite Melody Sumner Carnahan, veteran Santa Fe performers Rod Harrison and Ross Hamlin create evocative, theatrical soundscapes that reflect the rich and seemingly-forgotten tradition of Christmas ghost stories and tall tales.... Lalias (Rod Harrison and Ross Hamlin) found form in the early stages of 2021 and combines intense oratory incantations with ambient layerings of music, discarded answering machine tapes, lap steel, found sounds, upright bass, electronics, prepared guitars, electric cornet, field recordings and more. The spoken word component of past performances and recordings have featured psychiatric questionnaires, overheard conversations, obscure film and pop culture bric-a-brac, underscored by almost every genre of music imaginable.