Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Natalie Morales from Today will help celebrate the holidays as hosts of NBC’s annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center special. The music-filled holiday event will air on December 2, 2015 at 8pm ET/PT and will feature the spectacular Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. This year’s tree is an 80 year-old Norway Spruce from Gardiner, New York.
NBC’s confirmed the musical guests set to perform include Sting, Mary J. Blige, Andrea Bocelli, The Band Perry, Andy Grammer, Carly Rae Jepsen, Pentatonix, Band of Merrymakers, and James Taylor with world-renowned trumpeter Chris Botti. The Rockettes are also expected to perform.
In addition to ringing in the holidays, the Christmas in Rockefeller Center event kicks off NBCUniversal’s “Green is Universal” tree-planting campaign. Per the network: “This year, viewers can ‘GIF’t a Tree’ to a national or state park or forest, by using #GIFtATree or visiting www.greenisuniversal.com to create and share an animated holiday tree GIF. Each action will contribute to the Arbor Day Foundation’s tree planting efforts, funded by a $25,000 donation from NBCUniversal.”
