GREENFIELD — The son of the man who made “Jingle Bell Rock” a Christmas classic is bringing his father’s iconic music to the H.J. Ricks Center for the Arts in Greenfield.

BEVIN: Today, that sleigh bell starts out just as a flat sheet of metal, and then it gets cut into a shape, and then it gets formed into a circle. And then a little ball bearing is dropped inside.

Black Midi, the gnarled and volatile English rock experimentalists, are not the first act you’d expect to deliver straightforward covers of Christmas songs. But the Band To Watch has done just ...