1) Chinese New Year Spectacular finishes its last performance at the Cobb Center.
2) Lyonnais plays 529.
3) Manchester Orchestra and Dead Confederate play Variety Playhouse.
4) Jeffrey Butzer, T.T. Mahony and Adrian Ash perform “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at the Earl.
5) Zoroaster and Doomsayer play Smith’s Olde Bar.
(Photo courtesy Divine Performing Arts 2008)
Max Arbes and CL’s Chad Radford chat about a few upcoming shows, including Brittany Bosco at the Drunken Unicorn on Thursday, Dec. 18; the benefit show for Ted Weldon at the Star Bar on Friday, Dec. 19; and Jeffrey Bützer, T.T. Mahony and Adrian Ash at the Earl playing Vincent Guaraldi’s score to “A Charlie Brown Christmas” on Saturday, Dec. 20.
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One of the most beloved — and refreshingly soft-spoken — animated TV specials ever made, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” airs on ABC tonight at 8 p.m. The first cartoon version of Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strip was broadcast in 1965 and featured many unusual touches, such as the casting of children (many of them inexperienced) as voice actors, the Vince Guaraldi jazz-piano score and the lack of laugh track. Lots of parodies are out there, including “A Charlie Brown Christmas Performed by the Cast of ‘Scrubs’” and the horribly NSFW “Charlie Brown Kwanzaa,” but fans of Atlanta-based music probably appreciate this clip the best:
