The 17th annual Celtic Christmas Concert will be held Friday-Sunday, Dec. 11-13, at the Schwartz  Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory University campus. Friday and Saturday shows are at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $25.

This year, talented regional performers join Grammy Award-winning banjo virtuoso Alison Brown; genre-bending bluesy and jazz-inflected Appalachian hipsters Leah and Chloe Smith (R.I.S.E. to their many fans); madcap string player and percussionist Joe Craven; and noted Irish classical pianist J. J. Sheridan. For ticket information call the Arts at Emory Box Office at (404) 229-5050 or visit this link for more information.