The Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Rocks Extravaganza

Celebrating Christmas in concert before Thanksgiving? That may be verboten in some people’s books, but our own pompadoured guitar god will kick off the Brian Setzer Orchestra’s 26-concert Christmas Rocks! tour this weekend, not far from his Minneapolis condo. The terrific guitarist and swell showman always comes up with colorful outfits and snazzy arrangements for his big-band treatments of holiday fare. And, on the ninth annual yule tour with his well-drilled 18-piece orchestra, he might even throw in his secular sensations “Rock This Town” and “Jump Jive and Wail.” Jon Bream