Pentatonix featured in Empire State Building holiday light show

Pentatonix, the Grammy-winning a cappella group founded by Arlington’s Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi and Kirstin Maldonado, hit some new heights Monday night when their version of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy was used to score a brand-new version of the Empire State Building’s annual holiday light show.

If you’re familiar with Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, you know that Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy does not have words. But where Pentatonix is coming from, they don’t need words, and they do a fine vocalized version of the music. The song, from their That’s Christmas to Me album, earned the group (along with co-arranger Ben Bram) a Grammy nomination in the Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella category — the same category they won at this year’s awards with their Daft Punk medley.

Pentatonix (which also includes Avi Kaplan and Kevin Olusola) also performed recently outside the Empire State Building, where the light show was choreographed to a version played on iHeartRadio and New York’s 106.7 Lite fm, an iHeartMedia station. The light show ill play through Christmas. Check it all out in the clip below.

This story was originally published December 22, 2015 at 2:41 PM with the headline "Pentatonix featured in Empire State Building holiday light show."