NEW GLOUCESTER — Bald Hill will again help anchor the third annual New Gloucester Christmas concert, an evening of cross-genre, seasonal entertainment scheduled for Saturday night, Dec. 15, in the acoustically spectacular sanctuary of the New Gloucester Congregational Church. Showtime is 7 p.m.

A community pot-luck supper will precede the musical program in the church vestry, starting at 5:30 p.m. The dinner is free and open to the public, as is the concert. But a suggested donation of $10 will benefit the church’s Fuel Assistance Fund, which helps needy families heat their homes during the bleak midwinter.

[Hearty and otherwise southerly fans of Bald Hill should know that essentially the same concert will be staged Dec. 1, in Alfred, Maine, at the Alfred Parish Church. The curtain goes up there at 7 p.m., as well.]

A New Gloucester Christmas is a collaboration of many artists from the Greater New Gloucester area. Spearheaded by guitarist Jim Gallant, fiddler Mike Conant, and the members of Bald Hill, this year’s line-up includes a host of new participants, including noted Seussian scholar/declaimer Don Libby and choirs representing St. Gregory’s in Gray and the New Gloucester First Congregational Church itself. Returning to the stage from previous Christmas appearances are Emily and Steve MacKinnon (of the Kennebunk River Band), George Wardwell, and percussion guru Tony Castro.