28th Annual Christmas Revels December 4, 2010

For our 28th annual Christmas Revels in Washington, DC, we travel to novelist Thomas Hardy’s beloved “Wessex” to the little town of Mellstock in the countryside of nineteenth-century England. We’ll celebrate an English Country Christmas with traditional carols, anthems, rounds, country dancing, and a hilarious mummer’s play. This year’s guest artists, The Mellstock Band (Dave Townsend, Phil Hmphreys, Tim Hill, and Pete Cooper), come from England with a wonderful collection of string and wind instruments, including the haunting ”serpent,” a snake-like ancestor of the tuba.

Official Website: http://www.revelsdc.org/events.html#dec04