Virginia’s Li’l Ole Opry will present its annual Smith Family and Friends Christmas Show on Saturday night at Mathews High School’s Harry M. Ward Auditorium. Doors open at 7 and the show begins at 7:30 p.m.
Join the Smith Family and all their musical friends for a wonderful start to your holiday season, a release stated. The house band, Shades of Country, along with all of the Opry singers will offer country and traditional Christmas selections throughout the show, focusing especially on the special family songs from the past 50 years.
The audience will hear country songs like “Christmas in Dixie” and “Santa Claus is Back in Town”; traditional secular songs like “Blue Christmas,” “Let It Snow” and “Run, Run Rudolph”; and religious songs like “O Holy Night,” “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “Noel,” sung by Tracy Hill. The youth will be on hand, too, to sing a few favorites as well.
As always, the show will end with the reading of the Christmas story from the Bible with members of the Sm...