CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – (CLARKSVILLENOW) – The 2018 edition of the annual Austin Peay Christmas concert, David Steinquest and Friends, creates a brand-new holiday called 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.” 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 with Christmas decorations.

The performance is 7:30 p.m. Friday, November 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 (931) 221-7818.

To purchase tickets, go to AP Marketplace. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 16. This concert has sold out every year, so make sure to get your tickets ahead of time.