Growing up, Christmas Eve was big for Susan Tedeschi’s family. Literally. "Sometimes there would be so many people, we’d have Mass at the house. There’d be, like, 150 people. We have a big close-knit Italian family that honestly, just keeps growing,” says the Norwell native. "My grandmother used to have horses, so she’d get the sled out, have all us kids ride. We’d play music together. My grandmother would sit at the organ. We’d all sing."

In recent years, it’s become tradition for Tedeschi to return home for the holidays with her husband/bandmate Derek Trucks to rock Boston’s Orpheum Theatre. For the fifth time, Tedeschi Trucks Band will play a run of shows kicking off the holiday season — Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 3 and 4.