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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.
Noon-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Noon-6 p.m. Sunday. UT Gardens. $6 (4 and under free).
A model train Christmas extravaganza, with a quarter-mile of track over 4,000 square feet.
6-9 p.m. Friday, Chilhowee Park. Free.
The park becomes a winter wonderland, with carolers, cookies, carriage rides, and pictures with Santa.
7:30 p.m. Friday, St. John's Cathedral (downtown). $7-$15.
Ye olde-time music ensemble marks its 20th year with a selection of (mostly) Christmas music.
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.
Boozehound Gandy Dance: The Drunks That Stole Christmas
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Ironwood Studios (1206 N. Central). Free.
The music/vaudeville troupe presents its annual, irreverent holiday show.
11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, East Tennessee History Center. Free.
Cider, cookies, music, ornament-making, and storytelling.
11 a.m-3 p.m., James White's Fort. Free.
Tours of the fort, decorated for Christmas, plus cooking and blacksmith demonstrations.
4-7 p.m. Saturday, Candoro Marble Works. Free.
The Vestal arts and heritage center will be filled with candlelight, Christmas trees, and live music.
4-8 p.m. Saturday, North Hills. $10-$12 (see Facebook page for map and ticket info).
Ten houses in the North Knoxville neighborhood will be open and fully decorated (and will each offer refreshments).
5-8 p.m. Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Mabry-Hazen House. Free.
The historic home will be decked out in period holiday decor.
6:30 p.m. Saturday, Holy Family Catholic Church (Seymour). $2-$10.
4 p.m. Sunday, St. John's Cathedral (downtown). $2-$10.
Tennessee Valley Players give dramatic readings based on classic TV holiday specials, including those featuring Rudolph, Charlie Brown, and the Grinch.
8 p.m. Saturday, Civic Auditorium. $26-$41.
Visions of sugar plum fairies, dancing mice, etc.
OTHER WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS
6 p.m. Friday, Knoxville Museum of Art. $5-$9.
Alive After Five with the Oak Ridge R&B ensemble.
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, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Tennessee Theatre. $37-$77.
Yet another touring production of the hit show. (Aren't we to its ninth life yet?)
8 p.m. Friday, Laurel Theater. $11.
Creole fiddle dance music from Louisiana.
8 p.m. Friday, Bijou Theatre. $20.
The inventive string band has switched up their lineup, but still promises a rollicking show.
10 p.m. Friday, Barley's Taproom.
Hotly tipped, ambitious roots-rockers. Recommended to fans of MMJ and Wilco, f'rinstance.
8 p.m. Saturday, Bijou Theatre. $33.
Septuagenarian Texas rock'n'soul man can still shake that thing.
8 p.m. Saturday, Preservation Pub. $8.
Snarling rock and strutting cabaret. Or maybe the other way 'round.
Kathryn Calder with Himalayan Bear
10 p.m. Sunday, Pilot Light. $10.
Calder, who was in Immaculate Machine and is in the New Pornographers, makes vivid psych-pop on her own.
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