Train and Better Than Ezra are finding Las Vegas receptive to bands in the second-act stages of their careers. The featured performers at the third annual Mark & Mercedes’ Not So Silent Night, presented by Vegas radio station Mix 94.1, remain active recording and touring acts with faithful fan bases. Train (“Drops of Jupiter,” “Hey Soul Sister”) released its latest album, Bulletproof Picasso, this summer through Columbia Records, while The End Records’ signing of Better Than Ezra (“Good,” “Juicy”) yielded the September release All Together Now.

Both bands recently played the same stage in Vegas as well, during October’s Wine Amplified Festival at Mandalay Bay, but the history of Better Than Ezra and Train sharing bills in Vegas dates back to the first Not So Silent Night in 2012. This year’s benefit concert at the Joint includes Matt Nathanson (“Come On Get Higher”) and Andy Grammer (“Keep Your Head Up”) as special guests, both of whom have appeared on Train singer Pat Monahan’s Patcast.com podcast.

Not So Silent Night allows the participating acts to perform for a good cause, and also affords them the opportunity to catch up socially. “None of us get to hang out,” Monahan told Mark & Mercedes in an on-air phone interview. “You’d think that we’d be all be at the bar after the show, but we’re all pretty busy traveling all the time.”

The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel, 8 p.m. Dec. 5, starting at $39.50 plus tax and fee. 888.929.7849