Butler County Symphony Orchestra will present its holiday concert featuring Butler native Elizabeth Matchett Freimuth, principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, along with the Slippery Rock University Choir, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Butler Intermediate High School auditorium. Tickets are $23 for adults and $5.50 for students. Call 724-283-1402 or visit www.showclix.com.

Bach Society will present a choral Christmas concert “O Come Divine Messiah” at 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at Center Presbyterian Church in Slippery Rock and Dec. 7 at Tower Presbyterian Church in Grove City. The first half of the concert will be selections from Handel's “Messiah” and the second half Christmas songs from a variety of composers. Admission is free.

Bottlebrush: A Gallery for the Arts, 539 Main St., Harmony, will host a Harmony in the House concert featuring American music by The Early Mays along with a buffet beginning at 6 p.m. Dec. 7. Cost is $20 for both or $10 for the show only, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. Call 724-452-0539.

Center of Harmony, 253 Mercer St., Harmony, hosts singer Brooke Annibale of Pittsburgh at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $10 in advance or $16 at the door; youths younger than 16 are admitted free. Call 724-400-6044.

New Castle Music Club Chorus will give its 73rd annual presentation of Handel's “Messiah” at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Northminster Presbyterian Church, 2434 Wilmington Road, New Castle. Harry Cunningham, Butler resident and senior choir director at First English Lutheran Church in Butler, will once again direct the 70-member chorus. This performance is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to help defray production costs. Visit www.ncmusicclubchorus.org.Butler native and Broadway veteran Michael Marra has joined the cast of “Chess in Concert” for a performance at 2 p.m. Dec. 8 at the Richland Performing Arts Center at Richland High School, One Academic Ave., Johnstown. The performance is a fundraiser for a scholarship fund in the name of Kiersten Roberston, a student who was killed in an automobile accident in 2011. Marra will be playing one of the principal roles, Molokov. He has appeared on Broadway and toured nationally in “Les Miserables” and was an original cast member of the national tour of “Jekyll & Hyde.” Tickets are $10 to $24. Call 814-269-0300.

Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh hosts Piffaro the Renaissance Band performing “Drive the Cold Winter Away,” at 8 p.m. Dec. 7 at Synod Hall, 125 N. Craig St. in Oakland. Tickets are $20 to $35, and students pay $10. Call 412-361-2048.Pittsburgh Camerata presents “It Was All Shining: A Camerata Christmas” Dec. 7 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 5801 Hampton St.; Dec. 13 at Mount Lebanon United Methodist Church, 3319 W. Liberty Ave.; and Dec. 14 at Sixth Presbyterian Church, 1688 Murray Ave. Concerts begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door; students pay $5. Call 412-421-5884.