Tuba Skinny brings the street sound of New Orleans jazz indoors with a touch of jug band music, spirituals, country blues, string band music, ragtime and New Orleans R&B. They are known as world-class interpreters of jazz with the strength of their musicianship and the scope of their jazz and American roots music catalog. This lively group has toured all over the world and now comes to Pawling.

Joining us from France on their first U.S. tour is the Agate String Quartet. Their program includes string quartets by Mozart and Ravel plus a new work by Ukrainian composer Anna Korsun. The group takes their name from the soprano “Agathe,” referenced in the Brahms string sextet No. 2, and from the semiprecious stone.

Alias Brass in All Saints Chapel is sure to get you into the holiday spirit. Master musicians and teachers of trumpet, French horn, trombone, and tuba, they blend genres from classical to jazz and pop and entertain as they perform.

The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players bring an abridged version of HMS Pinafore to the stage of Gardiner Theater. The 8-member troupe with pianist will take requests from the audience in the second half of the show. Ask for your favorites, and they’ll sing some of their own!

Chilean singer/songwriter/accordionist Pascuala Ilabaca and her band Fauna are known for fusion of genres such as cumbia and salsa, along with jazz, pop, and rock. Pascuala and her band are “known for their strong live shows and for being one of the most empowered voices of new Chilean music; they draw on roots music from different parts of the globe to create a joyful and complex music that blends carnival with politics, and which is expressed with fragility and vigor.”