Music Center at Strathmore- 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, Maryland.
- A Skaggs Family Christmas - December 1, 2011, 8 p.m. Fourteen-time Grammy winner Ricky Skaggs makes this holiday season a family affair, marshalling the members of his own gifted family as well as his in-laws, the bluegrass masters the White Family. Staple carols of the holiday season such as “Little Drummer Boy,” “What Child is This?,” “The Christmas Guest” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” will be imbued with the mountain sound of bluegrass.
- 5 Browns Holiday Concert - December 2, 2011, 8 p.m. Seasonal music from Tchaikovsky, Liszt and Mozart to Richard Rodgers and Peanuts composer Vince Guaraldi.
- Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2011 - December 5, 2011, 8 p.m. Smooth Jazz master Dave Koz and his cadre of talented friends, Rich Braun, Jonathan Butler and Candy Dulfer, spread their own blend of Smooth Christmas cheer with songs from Koz’s classic holiday albums December Makes Me Feel This Way, A Smooth Jazz Christmas by Dave Koz & Friends and Memories of a Winter’s Night.
- Jim Brickman - A Christmas Celebration - December 7, 2011, 8 p.m. Holiday favorites that have drawn revelers around the piano for decades will be inflected with solo pianist Jim Brickman’s signature “rhapsodic melodies coupled with considerable stage charm” (Boston Herald). He will be joined by special musical guests singers Anne Cochran and Benjamin Utecht, and electric violinist Tracy Silverman.
- Lena Seikaly - Holiday Jazz Standards - December 16, 2011, 11 a.m. Songs of the holidays will be delivered with style by “buzzed-about vocalist Lena Seikaly, whose lush mezzo-soprano and clever phrasing have made her one of the local jazz scene’s most promising performers” (The Washington Post).
- Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra - December 18, 2011, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m. The Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra celebrates the holiday season with new arrangements and selections from the Stan Kenton and Claude Thornhill songbooks and features the entire “Nutcracker Suite” adaptation by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
December 3, 2011, 2 p.m. Old and New Worlds Holiday Concert presented in association with the East Avenue Ensemble of Chevy Chase. Georgetown Preparatory School, Haas Hall, Figge Theater, 10900 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD. Choral and Orchestral concert featuring Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, Shaw’s Many Moods of Christmas, and Dvorak’s New World Symphony. Free will donations.
Charles Carroll House Candlelight Chamber Music
December 3, 2011, 5 p.m. 107 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis, Maryland. Celebrate the holidays with a Candlelight Concert of festive 18th-19th C. European chamber music and seasonal favorites presented by the Annapolis Chamber Players. Hosted by the Charles Carroll House of Annapolis, patrons will experience chamber music in the intimate setting for which it was intended. Limited seating at $ 30/person.
The Georgetown Chorale
December 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m. “The Promise of Light". Christ Lutheran Church, 8011 Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda, Maryland Included in the concert will be Cantata No. 140, Wachet Auf by J.S. Bach; and selections by Francis Poulenc and Ola Gjeilo. Gene Galvin and Emma McDermott will be soloists in the program. Tickets are $20 per adult, $10 for children and students. (202) 832-3210.
Annapolis Symphony
December 16, 2011, 8 p.m. Holiday Pops - Simply Sinatra Christmas. Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase Street, Suite 204 Annapolis, Maryland. (410) 263-0907.
Rockville, Maryland
December 18, 2011, 3 p.m. Winter Wonderland, Rockville Concert Band.
December 18, 2011, 7:30 p.m. Rockville Chorus Holiday Performance.
Both performances at F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, Rockville Civic Center Park, 603 Edmonston Dr. Rockville, Maryland. Free, no tickets required.
Gaithersburg Community Chorus Holiday Concert3
Three performances of Handel’s Messiah. December 9, 2011, 7:30 p.m. at the Rosborough Cultural Arts Center Theater at Asbury Methodist Village, 409 Russell Avenue. Performances on December 10-11, 2011, 7:30 p.m. will be held at St. John Neumann Catholic Church, 9000 Warfield Road.
BlackRock Center for the Arts - 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown, Maryland.
- December 15, 2011 7:30 p.m. - The Kennedys Rock the Holidays - This charming husband-and-wife folk duo perform memorable holiday favorites and originals.
- December 17, 2011, 8 p.m. Metropolitan Klezmer, special holiday performance of soulful folk tunes, rollicking wedding dances, klezmer traditionals and originals, and much more!
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