Come rejoice with Judy Collins at Segerstrom show on Saturday

Judy Collins once sang that she’s “looked at clouds from both sides now.” She could say the same about the holiday season.

As a toddler in Seattle, the Grammy-winning singer watched white Christmases through her window, but only in the form of raindrops streaking across the sky. At the age of 4, she moved to Los Angeles and enjoyed holidays in the sun. Finally, she relocated to Denver — and “Let It Snow” became the song of the hour.

Now, Collins lives in New York City and gets plenty of white around the new year. On Saturday, though, she’ll stop back in a warmer clime when she brings her “Holidays and Hits” show to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

Here are a few other holiday-related facts about Collins:

1. Christmas sing-alongs were part of her childhood. Collins is the oldest of five siblings, and with her father, Chuck Collins, a local radio personality, the family harmonies had a natural leader.

“We always had a wonderful tree, and we always had a big Christmas dinner and we had a lot of music,” Collins said. “My father, of course, had a radio show, so he was always preparing for his holiday radio shows and singing the songs, but we would all sing. We would all gather around the piano at Christmastime and sing Christmas carols.”

2. She’s got a hefty holiday catalog. Name your favorite Christmas tune, and it’s likely that Collins has recorded it at some point. In fact, her Christmas-themed releases could provide the soundtrack for a lengthy road trip to visit relatives: Take your pick among “Come Rejoice!: A Judy Collins Christmas,” “All on a Wintry Night,” “Christmas at the Biltmore Estate” or her new collection, “Joy to the World,” which came out this year.

3. She’s written Christmas songs herself. The title track of “Come Rejoice!” is among Collins’ originals, and she wrote it for a 1990s concert she gave at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C.

Given the number of existing holiday classics, was it hard to come up with a new one?

“Nothing’s easy,” Collins said. “Ninety-five percent is work and 5% is inspiration. That’s true for almost anything.”

If You Go

Who: Judy Collins

Where: Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa

When: 8 p.m. Saturday

Cost: $39 to $89

Information: (714) 556-2787 or https://www.scfta.org