PAFW Celebrate sthe Holidays with 5 Yuletide Shows, 12/10-30

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Performing Arts Fort Worth ushers in the holiday season with a quartet of winter-wonderland shows:

BRAVE COMBO'S HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA
Friday, December 10, 2010
McDavid Studio, 330 E. 5th St.
8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $22
Denton's Grammy®-winning nuclear polka band brings its famed holiday show back to McDavid Studio, where the group will jingle your bells with unique takes on classic yuletide anthems and its own sleigh full of original Xmas tunes.

Michael Martin MURPHEY'S COWBOY CHRISTMAS
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Bass Performance Hall
7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $34.65-$51.15
"Triple M" brings back his annual "Cowboy Christmas" show - a Bass Performance Hall tradition. Under western-themed set pieces, Murphey mixes cowboy songs, poetry and stories for a truly unique performance that is as heartfelt as it is heartwarming.

HOLIDAYS WITH THE ONE O'CLOCK
Friday, December 17, 2010
McDavid Studio, 330 E. 5th St.
8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $30 ($5 student tickets also available)
The University of North Texas' acclaimed One O'Clock Lab Band returns to the fireplace-cozy confines of McDavid Studio to deliver a modern-jazz, big band holiday show. Along with its reinterpretations of Christmas standards, the One O'Clock will delve into works from Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite and Maynard Ferguson's A Christmas for Moderns.

Robert Earl Keen
With Terri Hendrix
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Bass Performance Hall
8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $33-$66
Beloved Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen polishes off the year with his annual eve-of-New-Year's-Eve show. In addition to staples such as The Road Goes on Forever and Corpus Christi Bay, he'll perform songs from his most recent CD, 2009's The Rose Hotel, along with, of course, his holiday singalong, Merry Christmas from the Family.

To charge tickets by phone, call (817) 212-4280 in Fort Worth; 1-877-212-4280 (toll free) outside Fort Worth; or order online at www.basshall.com. Tickets are also available at the Bass Performance Hall ticket office at 525 Commerce Street. Ticket office hours: Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.