The concert is Friday, Dec. 4 at 8 p.m.

“Elisabeth von Trapp: A von Trapp Christmas” will be held at 8 p.m. in the Lemmond Theater in Walsh Hall. Tickets are $10 for general admission; $5 for students and senior citizens and are available by calling the Misericordia Box Office at (570) 674-6719.

Born and raised in Vermont, Elisabeth von Trapp is the granddaughter of the legendary Maria and Baron Georg von Trapp, whose lives were memorialized in the classic 1965 movie. The Trapp Family Singers, which Maria and Georg founded in Austria and brought to the United States when they escaped Austria in 1938, included Elisabeth’s father, Werner von Trapp. The Family Singers disbanded in 1957.

Inspired by her father’s guitar playing and singing, von Trapp began taking piano lessons when she was eight and by the age of 16 she was playing guitar and traveling the back roads of New England performing with her siblings at weddings, gospel meetings and town halls. She has performed in numerous European cathedrals and at major venues across the United States, including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Building on her famed family’s passion for music, she has created her own artistic style, described as ethereal and earthy, delicate and powerful. Listeners have likened her to folk singer Judy Collins.

On this 2009 Holiday Tour, Erich Kory will join von Trapp, enhancing the performance with the stirring sounds of his cello. The program includes pieces from her album, “Christmas Song,” including a variety of Austrian carols, American folk ballads, medieval century chants and festive music from around the world, topped off with “Edelweiss” from “The Sound of Music.”

Information on “Elisabeth von Trapp: A von Trapp Christmas” and the full calendar of The Arts and More cultural events scheduled at Misericordia University is available by going online at www.misericordia.edu/theartsandmore.