The Freight's favorite musician for all seasons, Laurie Lewis, hosts our exuberant family holiday celebration, setting alight the longest night of the year with great music and food, an exchange of gifts, and a visit by spirits of the season—not to mention some of the Bay Area's hottest performers donating their services in support of the Freight. Tom Rozum, Danny Carnahan, Los Cenzontles, and Keith Terry & Evie Ladin each perform a set of fabulous music guaranteed to get your holiday glow on!

A key figure in bluegrass, traditional, and folk music circles, Laurie's songwriting, fiddling, and crystal-clear singing have brought her national recognition, a Grammy, and two International Bluegrass Music Association Awards for Female Vocalist of the Year. Her Grammy-nominated duet partner, mandolinist/singer, Tom Rozum, will join Laurie on stage for some of the pair's signature red-hot playing and beautiful vocals.

Over more than three decades of playing Celtic music, Danny has provided his great vocals and his multi-string-instrumental prowess in duos with Robin Petrie and with Chris Caswell, as a member of the world's favorite Celtic/Grateful Dead fusion band Wake the Dead, and in the eclectic quartet Camogie.

Based at the Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center in San Pablo, acclaimed conjunto Los Cenzontles (the Mockingbirds) celebrate the endless variety and imagination of Mexican music. In performance, the group weaves together a range of brightly colored threads, from tropical sones jarochos of Veracruz to heart-wrenching rancheras from the Mexican countryside.

Body percussionist Keith Terry brings together music and dance in a virtuosic display of hand-clapping, palm-rubbing, and cheek-popping rhythm, in projects like Slammin, Crosspulse, and the Circus Band Extraordinaire. Tonight he's joined by Evie Ladin (Stairwell Sisters), mistress of clawhammer banjo and jaw-dropping clogger and hambone-r.

Don't miss this one, folks!