Free shows in the Capital Region

Julia Alsarraf, a Troy-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, performs a noon concert in the Music @ Noon series at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.

A meeting with Arthur Yorinks, founder and artistic director of American Physical Theater, including a demonstration by company members.

The Bleecker Consort, an early music group from Albany, New York, plays medieval, renaissance and baroque music in a free Music @ Noon concert.

A free screening of the 1947 holiday film Miracle on 34th Street in the Hubbard Hall Mainstage, about a man who claims to be the real St. Nick.

Clarinetist and hichiriki player Thomas Piercy and pianist Marina Iwao perform a Music at Noon concert of Americana and tango nuevo works by composers including Gershwin, Piazzolla, Higdon and Rorem.

The Helderberg Hot Club, an acoustic swing band based in Albany, performs Gypsy Jazz and Jazz Manouche tunes, including swing, bossa, waltzes and rhumba, in the Music @ Noon free concert series.

Ensemble Connect pairs Brahms and Copland with Reena Esmail and the world premiere of a Carnegie Hall-commissioned work by Hannah Ishizaki.

Solo guitar recital by Scottish-Indian classical guitarist Samrat Majumder, performing works by Bach, Schubert, Dowland and others. The one-hour program has no intermission.

Toss the Feathers, an Irish traditional music group, performs in the Irish Music @ Noon concert, joined by uilleann piper Kara Doyle.

Remembering Beethoven is a free event at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center; no performers or program details are listed.

A free Music @ Noon concert by the Hilltown Ramblers, a bluegrass band formed in 1993 in the Helderberg Mountains of upstate New York.

A free Music @ Noon concert by the violin trio Triplum, featuring their debut piece, a new mass of sacred polyphony composed by Connor Armbruster.

Acoustic singer-songwriter Warren Sieme performs original songs and interpretations of folk and Great American Songbook standards in a Music @ Noon concert.