The Chadron State College music department closes its 2012 concert schedule tonight (Thurs) with Mallets & Ivory, the annual holiday concert by the CSC ensembles for percussion and keyboards. The free concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall.

Keyboard ensemble director Dr James Margetts says the concert will also include the CSC guitar ensemble with songs in the style of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and vocalist Karin Keller, who began entertaining Mallets & Ivory audiences as an undergraduate in the late 1990s and has been a regular part of the concerts since graduating in 2001.

Concert-goers will have an opportunity to support CSC music students by buying tickets for a quilt raffle that will be held during the second half of the program. The proceeds  will benefit the CSC chapter of MTNA…the Music Teachers National Association.