Team 'City Lights' rocks around the Christmas tree to share heartwarming holiday concerts

In this digital feature, the “City Lights” team shares some of the holiday concerts you can check out around Atlanta during the month of December. (Pixabay)

The excitement of holiday food, decorations and music fills the air this time of year. Today, the “City Lights” team shared some of the holiday concerts you can check out around Atlanta during the month of December. Here are a few of their holiday highlights:

The Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorusseasonal concert will take place this Friday, Dec. 1 at 8:00 p.m. at The Cathedral of St. Philip and then return for two shows on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. 

The Atlanta Music Project (or AMP) will also have a holiday concert on Dec. 2 with their Youth Orchestra. Dec. 3 is the AMP Preparatory School Holiday Concert. The Dec. 2 and 3 concerts are held at Sylvan Hills Middle School. The following weekend, Dec. 8, the AMP After-School Orchestra will perform their holiday concert. And on Dec. 9, both youth choirs are performing a concert. The junior youth choir and the senior youth choir. These concerts are at the Atlanta Music Project Center for Performance and Education.

The Atlanta Master Chorale’s annual holiday concert, “Christmas with Atlanta Master Chorale,” is from Dec. 8-10 at Emerson Concert Hall in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Their program focuses on themes of hope, delight, joy, faith and love. 

The Atlanta Women’s Chorus’ upcoming concert is titled “Holiday Memories” and takes place on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Oglethorpe University.

The Atlanta Vocal Project, formerly known as the Atlanta Metro Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, is an acappella harmony male chorus that mostly sings in the style of barbershop quartets. They have a Christmas show called “Ringin’ In the Holidays” at Roswell Cultural Arts Center on Dec. 16 at 3 p.m. 

Coro Vocati is the chamber choir group. Their upcoming Christmas concerts will take place on Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. at St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church in Marietta and on Dec. 17 at 2:30 p.m. at All Saints Episcopal Church in Midtown Atlanta.