’tis the season…to be Trashy?  Well, heck yeah, if we’re talkin’ ’bout Minnesota’s favorite Honky Tonk band, Trailer Trash…especially if they’re playin’ in Northfield, down here where the oak savannah meets the hardwood forest, doin’ their ever-popular holiday show, with an opening set by Northfield’s own Bratlanders.  Would Ann North be shocked?  Nah, she’d be bangin’ out the boogie-woogie on that piano she had John drag across the iced-over Cannon River.

Thursday, December 15th: A Trashy Little Xmas, 6:00 p.m., Grand Event Center; High School and Middle School Orchestra Concert, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., Middle School Auditorium; Celtic Cat and Prairie Dog, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m., Contented Cow; Mark Mraz, 8:30 to 11:00 p.m., Tavern Lounge; Rice County Roosters, 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., Contented Cow; and D J Karaoke, 9:00 p.m., Froggy Bottoms.

Friday, December 16th: Carey Langer, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Contented Cow; Opening Reception: Here and Then, 7:00 p.m., Northfield Arts Guild; Beatle Juice, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m., Contented Cow; Opera: Amahl and the Night Visitors, 8:00 p.m., First United Church of Christ; Matthew Griswold, 8:00 to 11:30 p.m., Tavern Lounge; and Karaoke, 9:00 p.m., Rueb’N’Stein.

Saturday, December 17th: Fine Craft Collective Open House, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 310 Division Street South; High School Choir Concert, 4:00 to 9:00 p.m., Skinner Memorial Chapel on the Carleton College campus; Rosewood, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Contented Cow; South on Natchez, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., Contented Cow; Opera: Amahl and the Night Visitors, 8:00 p.m., First United Church of Christ; Lonesome Dan Kase, 8:00 to 11:30 p.m., Tavern Lounge; Fred the Bear, 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., Contented Cow; and D J Music, 9:00 p.m., Rueb’N’Stein.

Sunday, December 18th: Opera: Amahl and the Night Visitors, 10:00 a.m., First United Church of Christ; Politics and a Pint, 6:00 p.m., Northern Roots Session, 7:00 p.m., and Quiz Night, 8:00 p.m., all at the Contented Cow.