2024 - Celebrate the Holiday Season at the Elgin Community College Arts Center

This past year, the Elgin Community College (ECC) Arts Center celebrated 30 years of providing year-round performances of all kinds to the college and community. Concluding this special year are two returning holiday-themed shows.

Saturday, December 7

A Bing Crosby Christmas with Jared Bradshaw, featuring the music of the Andrews Sisters

Enjoy a magical evening filled with holiday cheer and vintage charm as Broadway’s Jared Bradshaw celebrates the legendary Bing Crosby. Bradshaw appeared on Broadway in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Jersey Boys” and can currently be seen in Walt Disney’s Entertainment’s “Finding Nemo.” The charismatic Bradshaw takes a walk down memory lane with warm, touching stories. His swinging band features a talented trio singing the joyful harmonies of the Andrews Sisters. Timeless hits include “Jingle Bells,” “Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive,” “Mele Kalikimaka,” “White Christmas,” and “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Presented by Artists Lounge Live. 

Friday, December 13

Sons of Serendip

Christmas: Beyond the Lights

Experience the soulful sounds of the Sons of Serendip in this unique holiday performance, “Christmas: Beyond the Lights.” Finalists on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” (Season 9), this Billboard-charting classical-crossover quartet brings a refreshing and heartwarming twist to holiday favorites, blending voice, harp, cello, and piano. Their moving arrangements of classics such as “O Holy Night,” The Little Drummer Boy,” “The First Noel,” and “This Christmas” will captivate audiences with fresh harmonies and heartfelt renditions. “America’s Got Talent” judge Howie Mandel said, “[Sons of Serendip] are the most musically talented contestants on the show.”  

As versed in R&B and soul as they are in classical music, this unique genre-bending ensemble, which met while graduate students at Boston University, brings an unforgettable signature style of holiday cheer.

Both holiday shows will be in the Blizzard Theatre in Building H at 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin, Illinois. You can purchase tickets to all performances online at eccartscenter.org/tickets. If you have questions, please call the ECC Arts Center Box Office at 847-622-0300. 

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