The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's 2016 Winter Tour show, The Ghosts of Christmas Eve, takes over North Little Rock's Verizon Arena, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $37.50-$78 (plus service charges). A portion of the proceeds benefits Play It Again Arkansas and each purchase includes a digital audio copy of the album The Ghosts of Christmas Eve. There is a 14-ticket limit. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit the website, ticketmaster.com.
Jazz trumpeter
Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Chris Botti will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $45-$75. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Fayetteville Dickens
Six actors (Mason Azbill, Stephanie Bignault, Kieran Cronin, Bryce Kemph, Steven Marzolf and Michelle Shupe) play more than 40 characters as Fayetteville-based TheatreSquared stages Robert Ford's world-premiere adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through Jan. 1 in Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. (The theater has added a 2 p.m. Dec. 23 performance; there will be no show Dec. 25.) Sponsors are Bob and Becky Alexander, Margaret and Dick Rutherford and the Walmart Museum.
Tickets are $15-45, with a limited number of $10 seats for patrons under 30. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit theatre2.org.
Rogers Santaland
Arkansas Public Theatre will stage The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Dec. 8-10 and 2 p.m. Dec. 4 and 11 at the Victory Theatre, 116 W. Second St., Rogers. Cabaret seats are $35, $60 for table of two; balcony seats are $23, Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website, arkansaspublictheatre.org.
Bluegrass Monday
Jefferson City, Mo.-based family band The Bluegrass Martins will perform Christmas bluegrass tunes, 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould, part of Jonesboro radio station KASU-FM, 91.9's Bluegrass Monday concert series. The station will literally pass the hat to pay the group; suggested donation is $5. Call (870) 972-2367, email mscarbro@astate.edu or visit the Bluegrass Monday Facebook page.
FilmFest fundraiser
Memphis-based "vintage music" band The Side Street Steppers headline the annual fundraiser for the Ozark Foothills FilmFest Inc., 2 p.m. Saturday at Elizabeth's Restaurant, 231 E. Main St., Batesville. The band plays blues, jazz, country, "hokum," jug-band and fiddle tunes on banjos, banjo-ukuleles and tricked-out washboards they've built themselves from scratch.
Tickets, $35, include appetizers and drinks; organizers encourage 1920s/'30s attire. Proceeds support the 16th annual Ozark Foothills FilmFest. Call (870) 251-1189 or email ozarkfilm@wildblue.net.
UALR ensembles
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Guitar Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. The program will include arrangements of seasonal and standard tunes, concluding with UALR faculty member and ensemble director Michael Carenbauer's 22 Scenes From a Video Game for guitars and sequenced computer bass/drums accompaniment.
And the UALR Percussion Ensemble will perform chamber works, also at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, in the University Theatre, UALR Center for Performing Arts.
Admission to both concerts is free. Call (501) 569-3294 or visit the website, ualr.edu/music.
UCA winds
The University of Central Arkansas Wind Ensemble will perform a concert titled "Twists and Turns," 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Recital Hall, Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. The program: Occident and Orient Grand March by Camille Saint-Saens; Harlequin by Philip Sparke, with euphonium soloist Stephen Flores; "Profanation" from the Jeremiah Symphony by Leonard Bernstein (conducted by graduate student Nathan Rakow); and Overture in Five Flat by Julie Giroux. Ricky Brooks will conduct. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-5764 or email rickyb@uca.edu.
Bouffant fundraiser
Southern party band The Bouffants headline the Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, Stuttgart Foundation's fundraiser, 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Prairie Center, 2807 U.S. 165, Stuttgart. Tickets are $40; all proceeds benefit the Foundation Scholarship Fund. Call (870) 673-4201, Extension 1801 or Extension 1895, or email trogers@pccua.edu.
Style on 11/27/2016