Orchestra Iowa has a Christmas concert to whet your festive whistle as they bring the holiday cheer at this year's edition of the Holiday Spectacular! Put together by director Timothy Hankewich, the orchestra are joined by the Orchestra Iowa Symphonic Chorus, Iowa Women's Jazz Orchestra and the Discovery Chorus for a program featuring a variety of holiday favorites, classical festive fancies, carols and modern Christmas hits.

Joe Bonamassa is the guitarist's guitarist. A master of the blues, Bonamassa easily ranks alongside the more well known Clapton or Jeff Beck. Such was his prodigious talent that he supported B.B. King at the tender of age of twelve in 1989, and was christened by King as "one of a kind." Since then, he's played with anyone who is anyone and released a formidable catalogue of studio albums.