PORTLAND — Ellis Paul will perform his annual holiday show at 8 p.m., Friday, Jan. 1, in Portland at One Longfellow Square. This will be the ninth consecutive year he has appeared. Tickets are $22.

Ellis recorded and released his nineteenth album, “Chasing Beauty,” recently, which was produced by Kristian and Brandon Bush of Sugarland and Train. Ellis’ second children’s book, “The Night the Lights Went Out on Christmas,” has also been released.

He recorded his twentieth release — his fourth live album — in April at his show at S.P.A.C.E. in Evanston, Ill. He plans to release that album early next year.