Holiday concerts continue in Corridor this week

Here’s what’s happening in the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City areas Dec. 2-9.

Dec. 2-5

Christmas at Luther: Awake! And Greet the New Morn: 5:45 p.m. Thursday, 6:15 and 9:15 p.m. Friday, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Main Hall, Center for Faith and Life, Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah; the Sunday concert also will be livestreamed. This year’s theme, “Awake! And Greet the New Morn,” comes from a hymn by Luther alum Marty Haugen ‘73. It is not only a celebration and anticipation of the birth of Christ, but also a hope to exit the 18-month pandemic slumber and begin to welcome a return to a familiarity of life. Tickets: $35 in-person, $20 livestream, tickets.luther.edu/

Dec. 3

Irish Christmas in America: 8 p.m., CSPS Hall, 1103 Third St. SE, Cedar Rapids. Featuring traditional Irish artists with lively instrumental tunes on fiddle, flute, uilleann pipes and harp, as well as Irish old-style dancing. Tickets: $30 advance, $35 door, cspshall.org/irish-christmas

Handel’s “Messiah” with the Muscatine Civic Chorale: 7:30 p.m., Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, 1301 Fifth St., Coralville. Conductor Ed Kottick brings together an orchestra, professional soloists and the Muscatine Civic Chorale. Tickets: $17, coralvillearts.org/27/Events

Dec. 3-5

Holiday Spectacular: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Paramount Theatre, 123 Third Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids. Join Maestro Tim Hankewich and Orchestra Iowa with special guests Amy Friedl Stoner, Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale, Orchestra Iowa Discovery Chorus and more. Tickets: $18 to $59, creventslive.com/events/2021/holiday-spectacular

RHCR Theatre presents: An Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Cabaret: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Whipple Auditorium, Cedar Rapids Public Library, 450 Fifth Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids; masks required. RHCR Theatre is back live with its annual Christmas Cabaret. And this year, the performers will be dressing to the nines with ugly Christmas sweaters. Tickets: $20 to $25, rhcrtheatre.com/

Dec. 4

Merry TubaChristmas: 4 p.m., Ballantyne Auditorium, Mansfield Center in Iowa Hall, Kirkwood Community College, 6301 Kirkwood Blvd. SW, Cedar Rapids. It’s the 20th annual Great Cedar Rapids Area celebration of low brass holiday artistry. Admission: free; participation and concert details: crtubachristmas.com/

Storm Large: Holiday Ordeal: 7:30 p.m., Hancher Auditorium, 141 E. Park Rd., Iowa City. “Storm” and “large” are not, generally speaking, words you want to hear together in early December. Unless it’s Storm Large, taking on the holidays in her third Hancher performance. An undeniable force of nature, she’ll light up the holidays with a tempest of seasonal favorites. Tickets: $25 to $45 adults, $10 to $40 college students, $10 to $22 youths, hancher.uiowa.edu/2021-22/Storm_Large

Dec. 5

A Very Merry Nashville Christmas: 5 to 11 p.m., The Olympic South Side Theater, 1202 Third St. SE, Cedar Rapids. Meet Nashville singer/songwriters Melissa Bollea Rowe, Brecken Miles, Maggie Baugh, Trey Taylor and Bill DiLuigi performing their favorite original and traditional holiday songs, and the stories behind them. Tickets: $25 to $40, eventbrite.com/

Dec. 9

SOLD OUT: Straight No Chaser: 7:30 p.m., Hancher Auditorium, 141 E. Park Rd., Iowa City. Unwrap the gift of impeccable a cappella as the men of Straight No Chaser sing not only holiday favorites but their beautifully blended arrangements of popular hits. Tickets: $50 to $70 adults, $40 to $56 college students, $40 to $56 youths, hancher.uiowa.edu/2021-22/Straight_No_Chaser

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