QUINCY - Yuletide carols will be sung by a choir (possibly including the "Christmas Song") and vocal and instrumental soloists will take the stage at the annual Community Christmas Concert, sponsored by Quincy Valley Allied Arts. The curtain goes up at 6 p.m. in the performing arts center at Quincy High School, 16 South Sixth Ave.

Admission is one non-food item, which will be donated to the Quincy Food Bank, said concert organizer Mandy Ottley. Food bank operators told her they get a lot of donations during the holiday season, Ottley said, but relatively few of them are non-food items.

Quincy Valley Allied Arts is the sponsor, but it's a community effort, Ottley said. "We have a community choir," she said. "Anybody that wanted to join was invited."

About 30 people signed up for 2014, she said. "We have a good sound."

"It's a variety of music," Ottley said. The program also includes vocal and instrumental solos and duets, she said. Piano solos will include "Silent Night" and "Carol of the Bells," and violin solos are scheduled as well, Ottley said.

And there's even more musical variety. "We have a barbershop quartet," Ottley said. Among other things, the quartet will perform a medley of Christmas standards, she said.

"We generally have a story," she said. "There will be a story read with music in the background." Traditionally the concert ends with an audience sing-along, which features many of the classic Christmas songs.

The choir program traditionally features music from the centuries-old collection of Christmas music, songs "that are unfamiliar to everybody but are still Christmas songs," Ottley said.

Quincy Valley Allied Arts was founded in 1999, and the Christmas concert has been part of its repertoire from the beginning, Ottley said. 'We try to do this every year," she said.