FREEPORT— L.L. Bean’s ongoing Northern Lights holiday celebration features concerts, family fun and musical light shows. Festivities will culminate on New Year’s Eve with festivities from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., culminating with a hot cocoa toast and a fireworks display. Admission is free. 

On Sunday, Dec. 16 & 23, The Odd Company will present a short, comedic version of the Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol,” filled with lively music and unexpected antics. The 10-minute productions are presented between 1 and 3 p.m., in L.L.Bean’s Discovery Park.

New to the seasonlong celebration, and continuing each night until New Year’s Eve, is L.L. Bean’s musical light show with thousands of LED lights adorning a 60-foot Christmas tree in the center of Discovery Park. At the beginning of each hour, the giant tree and all others in the park, plus surrounding buildings, come alive with a dance of light and special effects choreographed to holiday music. Light shows run from 5 to 10 p.m. For more information, visit llbean.com/events. Schedule is subject to change. Call (877) 755-2326 for updates.

Dec. 31 events schedule:

* 11 a.m. & 1 p.m.: Magician Norman Ng Norman Ng, who over 17 years has performed at the New York Hilton Hotel, Magic Castle in Hollywood, Calif., and at colleges, fairs, festivals and theaters nationwide; camping atrium, flagship store

* 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Creating New Year’s Eve and winter-inspired crafts with Yay for You! Arts & Events. Make masquerade masks, ?ags, snowmen or penguins; children’s department, flagship store

* Noon and 2 p.m.: Singer, composer and guitarist Elizabeth Mitchell of Woodstock, N.Y., will perform with her husband, Daniel Littleton, and their 11-year-old daughter, Storey. A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings artist, Mitchell has been recording and performing music for children and families since 1998. Her “You are My Little Bird” was voted Best Children’s Album for 2006 by critics of Amazon.com. Mitchell received a 2012 Grammy nod for Best Children’s Album for “Little Seed: Songs For Children By Woody Guthrie;” camping atrium, flagship store

* 3:45 p.m.: The Wear and Wave art extravaganza with VSA Maine artists. Children get to create a one-of-a-kind wearable and and sound-making art for New Year’s celebrations; children’s department, flagship store.

* 5:15 p.m.: KidNight Celebration with singer-songwriter Rick Charette, followed by a hot cocoa toast at 6 p.m. and fireworks  to ring in the New Year; Discovery patio, flagship store