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Create a decoration MUSIC ..................................................................................IV inspired by one of our museums’ DINING .................................................................................IX historical collections, enjoy a holiday PROGRAMS ........................................................................XVIII meal at one of our taverns, ice-skate in Merchants Square and learn about Handicapped-accessible how the Colonists celebrated the Tickets required holiday season. Family-friendly Museum ticket required KEY We invite you to join us for the Must be accompanied by adult holidays; we promise you will take Please note that programming is subject to change. Always check our website — home memories to cherish for a colonialwilliamsburg.com — for the most lifetime. current information. 2016 HOLIDAY PLANNER colonialwilliamsburg.com/holidays III A Back Porch Christmas Concert Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 5 p.m. | Hennage Auditorium NEW Gather on our “back porch” to raise a ruckus with music and stories from Carson Hudson and the Old Cigar Box Band. $6 per person. A Charles Dickens Christmas Saturday, Dec. 3 at 5 p.m. | Hennage Auditorium The music of Victorian England is paired with readings by Gabe Stone, Stephen Christoff, Jan Tilley and David Gardner from the quintessential Christmas author. $10 per person. A Christmas Toast Sunday, Dec. 11 at 3:15 p.m. | Hennage Auditorium NEW Enjoy drinking songs and tavern revelry led by the critically acclaimed band The Virginia Company (David Gardner, Barry Trott and Cliff Williams) as they invite you to join in the merriment. $9 per person. A Harvest Home Saturday, Nov. 26 at 4:15 p.m. | Hennage Auditorium NEW In ancient times, the harvest was celebrated with great feasts and festivals. Join The Virginia Company (David Gardner, Barry Trott and Cliff Williams) for a musical festival of harvest plenty. $8 per person. All for One and One for All Monday, Dec. 26 at 2:15 & 4:15 p.m. | Hennage Auditorium NEW Join John Turner, Wayne Hill, Doug Austin and Sean Seid, who produce their unique sound with four fiddles or four mandolins, as well as a variety of other configurations, to play popular traditional and holiday tunes that span several centuries. $10 per person. Music IV 1.844.207.9151 2016 HOLIDAY PLANNER A Jolly Wassail Bowl: Christmas in Shakespeare’s An English Country Christmas An Un-Civil Christmas: Holiday England Monday, Dec. 19 at 2:15 p.m. Music of the Civil War | Hennage Auditorium Saturday, Dec. 3 & 24; Thursday, Dec. 8; NEW Kelly Kennedy and Andy Cleveland Monday, Dec. 26; Friday, Dec. 30; and share carols, wassails, waits, traditions Sunday, Jan. 1 at 7:30 & 9 p.m. | Courthouse Sunday, Dec. 18 at 3:15 p.m. and tunes beloved in the villages and Join folk musicians as they share and Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 5 p.m. country parishes of olde England. $8 per anecdotes and Christmas songs that gave | Hennage Auditorium person. both sides strength and comfort during the American Civil War. Adults $18; NEW Enjoy music for the winter Youth $9. Not wheelchair-accessible. season from the late 16th and early 17th centuries performed by Wayne A New Home for the Holidays Hill and Barry and Lynn Trott on lute, Friday, Dec. 9 at 4:15 p.m. cittern, viols, recorders and violin. | Hennage Auditorium Appalachian Christmas $8 per person. NEW Lee Welch, Sarah Glosson and Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 2:15 & 4:15 p.m. Barry Trott explore the origins of | Hennage Auditorium popular traditions as settlers arrived Enjoy traditional Christmas carols and from the British Isles and Europe, music of the season as the Miller-Rowe bringing their music and customs to Consort from Spartanburg, S.C., blends their new homes in the Americas. the warmth and richness of classical $7 per person. guitar with the hammered dulcimer. $10 per person. An Immigrant’s Christmas: Our Ancestors’ Songs A Season of Holidays Monday, Dec. 12 at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30 & Dec. 14 at 5 p.m. | Hennage Auditorium | Hennage Auditorium NEW Kelly Kennedy and Wayne Hill NEW Join Timothy Seaman on hammered sing and play the beloved, now familiar, dulcimer, flutes and more for a musical European songs we associate with our journey from Thanksgiving through American Christmas experience. $8 per Epiphany. $6 per person. person. Breaking Up Christmas: Old-Time Caroling at the Coffeehouse An Olde Virginny Christmas Fiddle and Banjo in Virginia Sunday, Dec. 11 & 18 and Thursday, Monday, Dec. 19 at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 2:15 p.m. Dec. 15 & 22 at 6 p.m. | Coffeehouse Porch | Hennage Auditorium | Hennage Auditorium Gather at Charlton’s Coffeehouse and NEW Sing along with Kelly Kennedy and With a variety of early and modern join in a holiday sing-along. Andy Cleveland as they perform English, banjos and fiddles, Barry Trott and Brian French, Irish and Scottish music from Forsman share the dance tunes and songs Olde Virginny. $8 per person. that laid the groundwork for bluegrass and country music. $8 per person. Caroling at the Courthouse Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 12-14 & 19-21 at 6 p.m. | Courthouse Steps An Old-Time Christmas Gather at the Courthouse for a holiday Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 2:15 & 4:15 p.m. Capitol Concert sing-along. | Hennage Auditorium Sunday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m.; Monday, Old-time band Orion teams with Virginia Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 11, 18 & 25 Sky to play both classic and new contra- at 7 & 8:30 p.m. | Capitol dance tunes and Celtic airs on fiddle, Join in singing holiday songs as you Caroling at the Ice Rink dulcimer, guitar, whistle, piano, banjo explore how traditions were observed Friday, Dec. 9, 16 & 23 at 6 p.m. and more. $12 per person. in Williamsburg from Christmas Day | Merchants Square through Twelfth Night. Adults $18; Join in the holiday spirit at Merchants Youth $9. Square to sing songs of the season. 2016 HOLIDAY PLANNER colonialwilliamsburg.com/holidays V Palace Concert Christmas Brass Favorite Holiday Classics Nov. 26 and Dec. 3, 6, 10, Saturday, Dec. 3 at 12:15 & 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 11:15 a.m. 17, 27 & 31 at 7:30 & 9 p.m. | Hennage Auditorium | Hennage Auditorium | Governor’s Palace Gabe Stone, Stephen Christoff and Steve NEW Michael Miller and David Rowe Ruckle feature trumpets, trombone and perform their most requested Christmas The regal Palace ballroom comes tuba, along with rare brass instruments arrangements and original seasonal to life by candlelight as Colonial from the 18th century: the serpent and compositions on hammered dulcimer and Williamsburg’s early 18th-century the sackbut. $8 per person. classical guitar. $10 per person. music ensemble, the Governor’s Musick, offers an elegant evening of chamber music for the holiday season. Adults $18; Youth $9. Christmas in the Manor House Fiddling Away the Holidays Thursday, Dec. 1 at 4:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2 & 23 at 2:15 & 4:15 p.m. | Hennage Auditorium | Hennage Auditorium NEW At Christmas, manor houses like Keyboardist Gary Whaley joins master those in Downton Abbey opened their fiddler John Turner for an hour of doors to peers, tenants and villagers traditional and holiday music. $8 per to celebrate the season. Join folklorist person. Kelly Kennedy and Irish opera star Anne O’Byrne as they share English, Irish and American Christmas songs heard both upstairs and down. $8 per person. Holiday Fiddle and Song Tuesday, Dec. 20 at 5 p.m. | Hennage Auditorium Enjoy your favorite dance tunes and Christmas in the Peaceable Kingdom songs of the season from the ’60s, ’70s, Monday, Nov. 28 at 4:15 p.m. and ’80s — the 1760s, ’70s and ’80s. | Hennage Auditorium Join Brian Forsman and Bill Weldon in NEW Join folklorist Kelly Kennedy as she singing carols and songs beloved by our shares joyous songs and stories about ancestors that continue to bring seasonal the animal kingdom. $5 per person. joy. $7 per person. Celebrate New Year’s Scottish Style Saturday, Dec. 31 at 2:15 p.m. Deck the Halls I’ll Be Home for Christmas: | Hennage Auditorium Saturday, Dec. 10 at 5 p.m.; Thursday, Dec. NEW Celebrate Hogmanay (New Year’s Don Irwin in Concert 22 at 1:45 p.m.; and Monday, Dec. 26 at Eve) with John Turner, Cliff Williams and Friday, Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m. | Kimball Theatre 11:15 a.m. | Hennage Auditorium Kelly Kennedy, who perform Scotland’s Steinway artist Don Irwin plays music Experience Stephen Christoff’s rousing traditional music for the holiday.