Carols & Cookies Holiday Concert and Bake Sale
| Hours: | 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Music & Concerts |
Music Director Mark E. Olson has put together a program that blends old favorites like Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride” and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s setting of “Greensleeves” with new pieces like the Mannheim Steamroller’s “Auld Lang Syne” and a jazz arrangement of popular Christmas tunes by Sammy Nestico in “A Fireside Christmas.”
Other highlights of the program include an inventive new arrangement by David Lovrien of well-known carols in “Minor Alterations: Christmas Through the Looking Glass,” a handbell choir performance, and a Christmas-in-the-Round segment that will have the musicians encircling the audience for a special serenade by each instrument section.
Each audience member will receive a treat bag with an assortment of holiday cookies and candies and may enjoy a variety of complimentary hot and cold beverages.
In addition to the musical entertainment, the afternoon will also feature an extensive selection of homemade packaged baked goods for sale and a raffle of a cookie jar filled to the brim with samples from the bake sale.
Carols & Cookies takes place at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, Dec.
14, 2014 at the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational Technical School (the Voke), 100 Hemlock Rd., Wakefield, MA.
Doors will open at 2:00 p.m.; come early for the best selections at the bake sale.
Admission is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, and children under 12 are admitted free.
For tickets and more information about Carols & Cookies or the Middlesex Concert Band, go to www.mcbconcertband.org.
For questions about tickets, please contact the MCB box office at 781-670-7662 or by email to boxoffice@mcbconcertband.org.
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Admission is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, and children under 12 are admitted free.
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www.mcbconcertband.org/carols.htm
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100 Hemlock Road, Wakefield, MA, 01880 map
Phone: 781-670-7662
Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational Technical School (the Voke), 100 Hemlock Rd., Wakefield, MA.
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