‘December Eve’: Christmas with David Steinquest and Friends coming Nov. 30
The 2018 edition of this Christmas concert put together by Austin Peay State University music professor David Steinquest creates a brand-new holiday! December Eve!
This year’s music is comprised of selections from “While Shepherds Watched” by We Three & the Kings, “Do You Hear What I Hear” by Paul Carrol Binkley, “Christmas Pageant” by Family Force 5 and “My Holiday” by Mindy Smith, as well as a few new selections written for this concert.
The concert includes Christmas standards like “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” “While Shepherds Watched,” “I Wonder as I Wander,” “Carol of the Bells,” “Away in a Manger,” “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and “Silent Night.” However, the tunes are dressed up in unusual and innovative arrangements that give them new life.
The show will have a homey atmosphere with the stage set up like a living room complete with Christmas decorations!
The performance is 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, in The George and Sharon Mabry Concert Hall.
Admission is two cans of food, which will be donated to Loaves and Fishes, or $5. Bring your cans of food to the music office in the Music/Mass Communication Building, Room 139. The phone number is 221-7818.
To purchase tickets, go to AP Marketplace (). Tickets go on sale Friday, Nov. 16. This concert has sold out every year, so make sure to get your tickets ahead of time!