Entertainment: Enough music, plays and movies to keep you busy all week

As we continue to make our way through December, the volume of holiday-themed shows keeps going up, with three more Christmas plays in Concord this week. There’s also plenty of live music and an especially heavy movie schedule at Red River.

Have a look:

Music

Tuesday

• Dan Weiner at Hermanos Cocina Mexicana at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday

• Paul Heckel at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday

• Richard Gardzina at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m.
• Llava Llama at Penuche’s at 9 p.m. $3 cover.
• Mike Gallant at Common Man at 7 p.m.
• Buzz Ball 2018 at Capitol Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35 to $45 at ccanh.com. The show features New England’s best entertainment with some very special guest musicians, comedians and actors. The full lineup will be released a day or two before the performance.
• The Canterbury Singers perform “We Make You Kindly Welcome: A Shaker Christmas” at Concord Community Music School at 12:10 p.m.
• Integrated Arts Recital at Concord Community Music School at 7 p.m.

Friday

• Don Bartenstein at Area 23 at 6 p.m.
• Red Sky Mary at Pit Road Lounge at 8 p.m.
• Natalie Turgeon Band at Makris Lobster & Steak House at 8 p.m.
• Women’s Ensemble Concert – “Love is Love” at Concord Community Music School at 5:30 p.m.
• Student recital, assorted instruments, at Concord Community Music School at 7 p.m.

Saturday

• Amorphous at Peunche’s at 9 p.m. $3 cover.
• Tribute to the Lost Ones at NEC Concord at 5:30 p.m. (doors at 5) featuring Walker Smith, Don Bartenstein, Dusty Gray, Juan Valdez, Keith Saunders, Mike Gallant and Jack Bopp playing songs by musicians we’ve lost over the years.
• Blues Jam at Area 23 from 1 to 5 p.m.
• Music at Area 23: Odd Fellows Way at 8 p.m., WKEAH at 9, Chodus at 10, The Burnouts at 11 and Wired For Sound at midnight.
• Catfish-Howl at Pit Road Lounge at 8 p.m.
• Eugene Durkee at Hermanos at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday

• Eric Chase at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m.

Monday

• Rob Wolfe at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m.

Next Tuesday

• Kid Pinky at Hermanos at 6:30 p.m.

Theater

• Discovering Magic at Hatbox Theatre on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 to $17 at hatboxnh.com.
• Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at Hatbox Theatre on Thursday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2. Tickets are $12 to $17 at hatboxnh.com.
• Fruitcake! at Hatbox Theatre on Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and Sunday at 6. Tickets are $12 to $17 at hatboxnh.com.
• Turning Pointe Center of Dance presents The Nutcracker Ballet at Concord City Auditorium on Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advance at the UPS Store and the dance studio or $20 at the door.

Movies at Red River

At Eternity’s Gate (PG-13/2018/110 min.)

Tuesday: 2, 5:30, 8

Wednesday: 2, 5:30, 8

Thursday: 2, 5:30, 8

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (R/2018/106 min.)

Tuesday: 2:05, 5:25

Wednesday: 2:05, 5:25

Thursday: 2:05

Boy Erased (R/2018/114 min.)

Tuesday: 7:45

Wednesday: 7:45

The Guilty (R/2018/85 min.)

Tuesday: 7:45

Wednesday: 7:45

Thursday: 7:45

Free Solo (PG-13/2018/100 min.)

Tuesday: 2:10, 5:35

Wednesday: 2:10, 5:35

Thursday: 2:10, 5:35

Oliver Twist (NR/1948/116 min.)

Thursday: 6

All movie times are p.m.