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HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS
10 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1-9 p.m. Sunday, Market Square. $7-$10.
The skating rink returns to Market Square, through Jan. 8.
11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Emporium Arts Center (100 S. Gay St.).
Looking for gifts made by local artisans? Thirty of them will be selling their wares here.
Noon-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Noon-6 p.m. Sunday. $6 (4 and under free).
A model train Christmas extravaganza, with a quarter-mile of track over 4,000 square feet.
7 p.m. Friday, Gay Street.
The annual procession, captained by a jolly old elf.
7 p.m. Friday, Civic Coliseum. $30-$80.
Celebrate with the family gospel group.
7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Clarence Brown Theatre. $5-$40.
Marley was dead: to begin with. CBT's annual Dickens adaptation.
7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Carousel Theatre (UT campus). $5-$40.
A reprise of last year's popular reworking of the Capra film via a broadcast of a (fictional) radio play.
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, Theatre Knoxville Downtown. $10-$15.
A comedy about Christmas in a tiny Texas town.
8 p.m. Friday, Tennessee Theatre. $37-$50.
Bluegrass mainstay Ricky Skaggs brings the wife, kids, and friends.
9 p.m. Friday, the Square Room. $15-$17.
Local swingers jazz up some holiday music.
2 p.m. Saturday, Holy Ghost Catholic Church. $10.
A program to benefit the Ladies of Charity of Knoxville.
8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Civic Auditorium. $26-$41.
8 p.m. Saturday, Laurel Theater. $11.
Klezmer music for the holidays.
1 and 5 p.m. Sunday, Tennessee Theatre. Free.
Home Federal presents a big-screen showing of the Capra classic.
3 p.m. Sunday, Bearden High School. $8-$12.
Local vocal groups including the Smokyland Sound Barbershop Chorus.
3 p.m. Sunday, Knoxville Museum of Art. Free.
Classical and popular holiday songs.
6:30 p.m. Sunday, Carousel Theatre (UT campus). $15-$30.
Music and stories built around Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory."
OTHER WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS
5-9 p.m. Friday, in and around downtown.
The monthly gamut of gallery shows, wine, and cheese cubes.
7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Pilot Light. $20.
Local production of the hit Off-Broadway musical about a transsexual rock star.
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oak Ridge Playhouse. $16-$18.
Jo sings! An adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel.
Lucero with Futurebirds
8 p.m. Friday, Bijou Theatre. $20.
Former bar-band faves from Memphis have beefed up their classic rock.
The Dirty Works with Casey's Trunk, the Everymen, and Abertooth Lincoln
9 p.m. Friday, Longbranch Saloon. $5.
Chris Scum is back with his reconstituted, scuzz-bottom Dirty Works.
7 p.m. Saturday, Riverside Theater (Rockford). $8.
Sister trio recreates the cowboy era with Western swing and classic country.
8 p.m. Saturday, Palace Theater (Maryville). $10-$12.
Blount County's first couple of country in a Christmas benefit show.
8 p.m. Saturday, Civic Coliseum. $27.50.
The Nashville veteran returns.
9 p.m. Saturday, the Cider House. $5-$7.
Stellar local line-up including Marina Orchestra, Damaged Patients, and DoppleGangsta rocks the end of the semester and raises some dosh for the student station.
Rayna Gellert and Drew Heller with Todd Steed and Bob Deck
7 p.m. Sunday, Morelock Music. Free.
Fiddler Gellert teams up with Toubab Krewe guitarist Heller.
Beirut with Perfume Genius
8 p.m. Sunday, Bijou Theatre. $28.
Indie world-folk-rock adventurers.
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