Before I try to sell you on this gig, let’s get one thing clear: Yes, there are way too many holiday shows. I don’t need six weeks of Christmas cheer filling up my concert calendar. But! If there’s one festive gig worth catching, it’s Béla Fleck and his band the Flecktones (featuring members Howard Levy, Victor Wooten, Roy “Future Man” Wooten, saxophonist Jeff Coffin and Tuvan throat-singing ensemble Alash) at the Ryman Auditorium. This group of prodigious players blended jazz, bluegrass, the blues and classical influence on 2008 holiday album Jingle All the Way, which includes songs like “The Twelve Days of Christmas” performed with a dozen time signature changes and “Jingle Bells” dusted in banjo and wind instruments. For those who want to get in the spirit without enlisting a night of chestnut-roasted crooning, this may be the show for you.
7:30 p.m. at the Ryman
116 Rep. John Lewis Way N.
