Opening Saturday, December 8: The show includes 90 antique irons. Their flat bottoms have been collaged with pages from More’s book, variously scorched, cut, woven and layered with textiles, thread, lace, fur, tacks and sandpaper. “It’s very inspiring to see how dedicated these women were in their convictions. They had very strong voices, despite all the obstacles of their times.”

Saturday, Dec. 8: The television performer will bring her sassy and swinging interpretations of holiday classics to the Fisher Center stage with her all-female jazz trio.

Friday, Dec. 14 at Towne Crier Café in Beacon; Sunday, Dec. 16 at Ashokan Center in Olivebridge: Tim Eriksen is known for teaching the musicians for the film Cold Mountain to sing the eerie pentatonic scales of the Sacred Harp tradition. It’s a style of performance that evolved out of the use by circuit-riding ministers in the 19th century of a hymnal for illiterates that taught tunes using “shape notes,” and hearing it is guaranteed to capture your interest.

Saturday, Dec. 15: Though George Frideric Handel wrote his most famous oratorio in 1741 with the intent that it be performed with “modest” instrumentation, including a harpsichord, and only a few dozen voices, Messiah’s subsequent growth in both popularity and orchestral/choral scale is a juggernaut scarcely to be resisted.

Sunday, Dec. 2: He was a self-taught guitarist, fiddler, square dance caller, amateur historian and songwriter who made up tall tales about the Catskills and set them to music – among them “The Legend of Slide Mountain.”

Saturday, Dec. 1: The stellar picker of all things stringed relocated to Wilmington, Delaware in 2002 to open a violin shop. He got involved with saving and restoring a historic opera house that became a keystone in the revitalization of the city’s blighted downtown, started sitting in on local jam sessions and was eventually coaxed out of retirement.

Saturday, Dec. 1: Bassist and producer Scott Petito leads an all-star ensemble tribute featuring Gail Ann Dorsey, Jules Shear, Jane Scarpantoni, Adrien Reju and many more, tackling the ambitious scope of the Beatles’ classic double album.

Saturday, Nov. 24: I am not here to tell their story, but rather to argue that in some ways, the Monkees may have achieved rock’s ultimate band authenticity and its most genuinely subversive narrative.

Saturday, Nov. 24: Evening features Jesse Royal, Kabaka Pyramid and Bread Doe, as well as DJ Sterling with an after-show set.