Annual Christmas Tree Lighting
Main Street Murfreesboro/Rutherford and Rutherford County will host the annual Christmas Tree Lighting from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. Friday at the Historic Courthouse in downtown Murfreesboro.

As Santa lights the tree on the Courthouse lawn, area school and church musical groups will offer the festive music of the season. Many downtown merchants will also be open to offer special treats to attendees.

For more information, visit downtownmurfreesboro.com.

Bethlehem Marketplace
Southeast Baptist Church will resurrect the village of Bethlehem at 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and Dec. 10-11, at 708 Minerva Drive.

This year marks the show’s 30th anniversary.

The marketplace is a re-enactment, performed entirely by church members, of how the village of Bethlehem might have appeared just after the birth of Jesus, and will feature Roman soldiers, live camels and other animals, tentmakers, weavers, carpenters and merchants.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, call Southeast Baptist Church at 615-896-0940.

Oaklands Candlelight Tour of Homes
The annual Oaklands Christmas Candlelight Tour of Homes is slated to begin at 4 p.m. Saturday and will feature private homes along Maney Avenue, a distinctive church on East Main Street and the graceful Oaklands Historic House Museum.

Interpreters in period attire will guide residents through the tour. The proceeds of the Candlelight Tour of Homes go toward the care and upkeep of the mansion.

Admission is $10 per person, $8 for students, $5 for ages 6 through 12, and ages 5 and under receive free admission.

For more information, call 615-893-0022.

Thursday
7:30 p.m. - MTSU Concert
Featuring Jazz Nutcracker by Jazz Faculty and guests. Earl Hinton Music Hall in the Wright Music Building. mtsumusic.org or 898-2493

Friday
10:47-11:25 a.m. - Bullying classes
Topic: Stalking. Continues through Dec. 2. Oakland High School, 2225 Patriot Drive

6:30 p.m. - First Friday Star Party
MTSU’s Wiser-Patten Science Hall, Room 102. Eric Klumpe at 898-2483 or Charles
Higgins at 898-5946

6:30 p.m. - Nunsense Dinner Theatre
Cost: $25 for dinner and the play. Runs: at 7:30 Thursday-Saturday nights and at 2 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 17. Center of Cannon County, 1424 John Bragg Hwy., Woodbury. 615-563-(ARTS) 2787

7 p.m. - Rockin’ ‘Round the Angel Tree
Featuring The Crusty Veterans. Tickets: $5, benefits the Salvation Army. Blueboro on the Historic Square.

7:30 p.m. - Nuncrackers
Runs: at 7:30 Thurs.-Sat. nights and at 2 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 18. Center for the Arts, 110 W. College St. boroarts.org or 904-27875

Saturday
9 a.m.-4 p.m. - Christmas Market Place
First Church of the Nazarene recreation building, 1618 Hamilton Drive

10 a.m.-4 p.m. - Sam Davis Home “Antebellum Christmas”
Sam Davis Home, 1399 Sam Davis Road, Smyrna. 459-2341 or samdavishome.org

Noon-2 p.m. - 23rd annual Hattie A. Adams Christmas Dinner
St. Clair Street Senior Center, 325 St. Clair St.

1-5 p.m. - Bethlehem Marketplace
Southeast Baptist Church, 708 Minerva Drive

4-8 p.m. - Oaklands Candlelight Tour of Homes
Benefits Oaklands Historic House Museum. 893-0022 or info@oaklandsmuseum.org

5-8 p.m. - Big Band Christmas Party
Benefits needy students of John Pittard Elementary School. Admission: $10, $25 per family. First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 907 E. Main St.

6-8 p.m. - La Vergne Parade of Lights
Starts at Veterans Memorial Park on Floyd Mayfield Drive and travels north on Murfreesboro Road, ending at the La Vergne City Hall. lavergnetn.org or 793-3324