Join us at this 15th annual Maryland Emancipation Day event!  

 

Activities for the whole family include guided cabin tours; living history demonstrations; hands-on crafts and games; Michael Twitty, Afro-American Foodways Historian; and the joyous music of the Washington Revels Jubilee Voices (performances at 1:10 and 2:30pm).

 

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Lift your glass and your voice for a great sing-along evening!

Gather at Ireland's Four Provinces (Falls Church, VA) for good food and drink, good music, and always great company! Seating is limited to 100, so don't delay in getting your tickets - we sold out in advance last year.

 

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"Sephardic Journeys," a special night of music... 

This salon-concert offers a wonderful mix of performance, stories, demonstration, and a chance to interact with our guest artists in this year's Christmas Revels. Bringing a vibrant past into the present, musicians Howard Bass, Tina Chancey and Susan Gaeta are joined by National Heritage Fellow and "living legend," Flory Jagoda.  Beautiful, joyful, and plaintive songs from the centuries-old tradition of the Sephardim, the Jews of Spain. Come, listen, learn and enjoy!

 

Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church

9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814

 

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Would people or businesses you know -- or perhaps yourself! -- have a message they would like to deliver to 10,000 patrons in the DC area early this holiday season at inexpensive rates? Our attractive, oversize Christmas Revels program book, given free to all ticket-holders as they enter the theater, may be just the answer. The deadline for reserving space is Monday, November 14, with final copy due by November 18.  We are happy to email you rate sheets and other information to give to potential advertisers. 
 

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Our 29th annual celebration of the winter solstice harkens back over 1,000 years to the confluence of Moorish, Sephardic and Iberian cultures in medieval Andalusia. Led by the antics of two fools, and joined by guest musicians, Trio Sefardi and Layali El Andalus ("Andalusian Nights" in Arabic), we celebrate the legacy of the extraordinary flowering of arts and culture that began there and extended to much of the world for centuries thereafter. Presenting the three cultures together on stage, we honor the symbol that Andalusia has become (however imperfect the reality) of the ideal of greater tolerance and acceptance among different cultures and religions.

 

8 PERFORMANCES:  

The Washington Revels has been invited to perform as part of the 32nd Annual InterFaith Concert, held this year at the Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts & Wisconsin Avenues, NW.

• November 15 - Cast members from the 2011 Christmas Revels will perform in the 32nd Annual InterFaith Concert. This year's concert features the Hindu and Jain, Jewish, Latter-day Saint, Protestant, and Sikh faith communities, a combined choir and the Washington Revels leading the entire gathering in a world premiere of the peace round, "Shalom Chaverim," in both Hebrew and Arabic!

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