If you want to hear holiday music that is a bit different, Craig Thatcher and Nyke Van Wyk is the duo for the season.

“The Craig Thatcher & Nyke Van Wyk Holiday Show” premieres at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 18 in the “Jazz On Stage Live Stream Video Series,” Miller Symphony Hall, Allentown, and is available on demand beginning Dec. 19.

“We’ll be doing well-known and some lesser known Christmas songs with our own arrangements,” says Thatcher in a phone interview from his home in Coopersburg.

“It will include a few original instrumentals and musically range all over the place.”

You might hear a unique take on “We Three Kings” and a version of Jethro Tull’s “Christmas Song.”

The performance will be similar to those the duo has done at area churches and will have a strong Celtic flavor. Some of the songs will be from the duo’s albums “Passion, Spirit & Strings” (2012) and “Eventide” (2016).

It will be an acoustic performance with Thatcher on guitar and Van Wyk on violin.

Thatcher and Van Wyk have been doing their lively Christmas concerts for many years, but these have been curtailed by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic shutdown.

“Normally, we do about 10 or 12 gigs at Christmastime, but everything has been canceled.

“For 15 years we were at the Mauch Chuck Opera House, which always sold out. We are lucky to be able to do this.”

The duo has done streaming shows this year from the Sellersville Theater and from the studios of Lehigh Valley Public Media (PBS 39 and WLVR).

The “Sellersville Soundbooth Sessions” video is available on YouTube.

The duo previously appeared at Miller Symphony Hall as part of “A Lehigh Valley Christmas in Concert” and at last year’s “Eric Clapton Retrospective” tribute to the English guitarist. Thatcher led the Craig Thatcher Jazz Project there last year for a sold-out show.

Thatcher is an International Clinician-Ambassador for C.F. Martin & Company, Nazareth.

Although concert dates for musicians have been sparse, Thatcher says, “Guitar sales are through the roof. People are staying home and learning things.”

The Martin Guitar factory is in operation. The Martin Guitar Museum is closed.

“I don’t have that many guitars, only 20 or so,” Thatcher says. That might seem like a lot to the average musician, but he says, “I have friends who have hundreds.”

Among his favorites are a custom-made “M” model that he uses for recording and his workhorse guitar, a 000-28 Eric Clapton model.

Thatcher’s 10 years with Martin have led him to concentrate on finger-style guitar playing. He plans to expand private lessons with a combination of videos and possibly one-on-one instruction.

Van Wyk. who lives in Bethlehem, performed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, and at the White House for two different presidents by the time he was 18. He has also appeared in films, been a speaker for school districts and conferences across the United States and has appeared on hundreds of albums.

Thatcher and Van Wyk have been performing together since 2009, with a wide-ranging repertoire that includes Americana and a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.”

One of their many projects has been as hosts of trips to Scotland, Ireland and Italy, where groups of 65 or so people see them perform in venues that have included castles and a rooftop in Rome.

The Craig Thatcher Band, which now includes Van Wyk, has worked since 1992. The group has done tributes to Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, the Allman Brothers Band, and Cream.

Thatcher has been performing in the Lehigh Valley since the late 1970s. His many concerts in the Lehigh Valley include 31 consecutive years at Musikfest.

Tickets: https://www.millersymphonyhall.org/site/events/jazz-onstage-series