Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performers lead the post-Thanksgiving entertainment highlights set for local and regional venues over the next two weeks.

Wind Creek Event Center welcomes R&B/soul legend Gladys Knight, a 1996 rock hall inductee, and singer-songwriter Lou Gramm, a 2024 inductee as a member of rock band Foreigner. Gramm, former Foreigner frontman, will join the current lineup for select songs as part of the group’s 4 Deluxe Tour.

For fans of old-school R&B/soul craving more after Knight’s gig, Kalahari Resorts & Conventions will host the Maurice Watts Annual Classic R&B Music Festival.

Three acts, meanwhile, return with annual holiday shows: Ryan Pelton at Penn’s Peak, Twelve Twenty-Four at Mauch Chunk Opera House and Toolshed Jack at Tamaqua Community Arts Center.

PENN’S PEAK

325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe

866-605-7325, pennspeak.com

• Dream Come True Presents Comedy Night: Wise Crackers Comedy Group, 7 p.m. Saturday. Scott Bruce hosts the show, featuring Brad Lowery and headliner Frank DelPizzo.

• Country Jamboree’s Nashville Christmas, 1 p.m. on Dec. 2. The group will perform Christmas favorites and country tunes by classic artists. A Willie Nelson tribute act and a singing Santa will also perform.

• Ryan Pelton: “An Elvis Christmas,” 1 p.m. on Dec. 4 and 5, and 8 p.m. on Dec. 6. Pelton, an Elvis Presely tribute artist and actor, won a 2002 “Elvis Impersonators” episode of NBC’s “The Weakest Link.”

MAUCH CHUNK OPERA HOUSE

14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe

570-325-0249, mcohjt.com

• Dustin Douglas & The Electric Gentlemen, 8 p.m. Saturday. Douglas and his blues-rock band will perform a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix.

• Twelve Twenty-Four, 8 p.m. on Dec. 5 and 6. The northeastern Pennsylvania rock group, formed in 2002, performs the music of Trans-Siberian Orchestra and its own material.

• Magnolia Boulevard, 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 7. The rock/soul band, formed in 2017 in Kentucky with Americana and Appalachian roots, released its latest single “Devil You Know” in September.

TAMAQUA COMMUNITY

ARTS CENTER

125 Pine St., Tamaqua

570-668-1192, tamaquaarts.org

• Toolshed Jack Ugly Sweater Holiday Party, 7 p.m. on Dec. 6, The Stitch. The Schuylkill County band, which performs rock and pop songs from all eras, presents its annual holiday show.

VIC’S JAZZ LOFT

AT THE STABIN MUSEUM

268 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe

570-325-5588, vicsjazzloft.com

• Sawtooth 311, 7 p.m. on Dec. 5. Composer Justin J. Comito leads the act, which fuses psychedelic, electronica and blues. The show previews the album “Funky Kaleidoscope,” due in March 2026.

COUNTRY JUNCTION

6565 Interchange Road, Lehighton

610-377-5050, countryjunction.com

• “The Great Christmas Adventure Show,” 3 p.m. today, plus Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 28. The show includes characters such as Buddy the Elf, Cindy Lou Who, Santa and the Grinch.

• Santa’s Pajama Party, 6 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 9. The event includes arcade games, bounce houses, bumper cars, bowling, hot chocolate, popcorn and a gift. PJs encouraged.

SIGNATURE SALOON & EVENT CENTER

137 Erin Lane, Brodheadsville

570-872-1444, secpoconos.com

• Jase Mathews Band, 7 p.m. on Dec. 5. Mathews, based in northeast Pennsylvania, formed his Southern rock/country/Americana band earlier this year. The act released debut album “Gon’ Country” in June.

• Joey Lannigan & The Spirits, 7 p.m. on Dec. 6. Born and raised in New Jersey, Lannigan moved to the Poconos in 2020. He has released singles such as “Freight Train” and “All the Ways.”

WIND CREEK EVENT CENTER

77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem

610-224-4625, windcreekeventcenter.com

• Gladys Knight, 8 p.m. on Dec. 4. Born in Atlanta, the singer/actress recorded with family group The Pips from 1962 to 1987. The act’s hits include “Every Beat of My Heart,” “I Heard it Through the Grapevine,” “Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye),” “Midnight Train to Georgia” and “Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me.” Knight, with numerous solo albums to her credit, featured on Dionne Warwick’s 1986 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “That’s What Friends Are For.”

• Foreigner, 8 p.m. on Dec. 7. The rock band, formed in 1976 in New York City, has nine studio albums to its credit. This show, featuring cofounder/former frontman Lou Gramm as a guest vocalist, celebrates Foreigner’s 1981 album “4.” The set, recently reissued in a deluxe edition with previously unreleased songs, spawned hits such as “Urgent,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and “Juke Box Hero.”

• “Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical,” Dec. 10 to 14, eight shows. Meredith Wilson wrote the book and score for this adaptation of the classic 1947 holiday film. The show, in which a department store Santa claims he’s the real Kris Kringle, debuted on Broadway as “Here’s Love” in 1963.

MUSIKFEST CAFÉ

101 Founders Drive, Bethlehem

610-332-1300, artsquest.org

• Corinne: “An Evening Of Holiday Jazzy Pop,” 7 p.m. on Dec. 7. The concert, a benefit for the Children’s Home of Easton, features holiday favorites and songs from Corinne’s new album “Stories in Pink.”

• Johnnyswim, 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 8. Formed in 2005 in Nashville, Tennessee, the husband-and-wife duo blends folk, pop, blues and soul. Johnnyswim, which released its fifth studio album earlier this year, features Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano, daughter of Bruce Sudano and the late Donna Summer.

STATE THEATRE

453 Northampton St., Easton

610-252-3132, statetheatre.org

• “Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet,” 7 p.m. on Dec. 4. The show focuses on the Stahlbaum family’s Christmas Eve celebration. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker” debuted in 1892.

• Straight No Chaser, 3 and 7 p.m. on Dec. 7. The male a cappella act, originating in 1996 at Indiana University, released its 11th full-length album, “Holiday Road,” in October.

SHERMAN THEATER

524 Main St., Stroudsburg

570-420-2808, shermantheater.com

• Jessica Lynn’s “A Very Merry Classic Christmas,” 7 p.m. on Dec. 6. Lynn, a country singer-songwriter from Westchester County, New York, released her full-length debut album “Lone Rider” in 2022. The holiday show benefits children in need, with toys collected for Toys For Tots.

SHAWNEE PLAYHOUSE

552 River Road, Shawnee-on-Delaware

570-421-5093, shawneeplayhouse.org

• “A Winnie the Pooh Christmas Carol,” Saturday through Dec. 20. Christopher Robin and his 100 Acre Wood friends feature in this youth rendition of Charles Dickens’s classic “A Christmas Carol.”

KALAHARI RESORTS & CONVENTIONS

250 Kalahari Blvd., Pocono Manor

888-210-8009, mauricewatts.com

• Maurice Watts Annual Classic R&B Music Festival, Dec. 5 to 9. Highlights include four concerts, held at 7:30 p.m. nightly through Dec. 8. Lineup: Dec. 5, The Sugarhill Gang, Karyn White, Champaign Pauli Carman, First Choice; Dec. 6, The S.O.S. Band, Dazz Band, Lakeside; Dec. 7, The Chi-Lites Featuring Marshall Thompson, Russell Thompkins Jr. & The New Stylistics, Enchantment; and Dec. 8, Heatwave, Atlantic Starr, The Jones Girls Featuring Shirley Jones, The Temprees.