This weekend marks the official kickoff to a whole range of Christmas and holiday traditions.
First up is, of course, the annual Festival of Lights. This is followed by the fourth annual Light Up The Vines on Saturday and Sunday organized by the Bottleneck Drive association.
Sunday will see also a musical extravaganza as Musaic, the Tuneagers, Naramata Community Choir, the Penticton Secondary Concert Choir and the Penticton United Sanctuary Choir perform at 2:30 p.m. at Penticton United Church.
In the evening there will be a benefit concert at Lakeside Presbyterian Church featuring an evening of Christmas music with proceeds going to help mothers and women in North Africa.
Next Wednesday the always popular Penticton Tune-Agers choir and orchestra will be at Summerland United Church for a lively Christmas concert entitled “Who’s Coming to Town???”
On Dec. 7, the gym at Summerland Middle School will be filled with Christmas music as choirs from local churches gather for the annual Choir Fest.
Musaic will be presenting their annual seasonal music concert a few days later at St. John’s Lutheran Church.
They will perform a rich mix of music including Gordon Lightfoot’s Song for a Winter’s Night and a choral medley from the Disney animated film Frozen.
You’ll also want to mark your calendars for a dramatic reading of the Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol” being performed Dec. 5 at Summerland United Church as a fundraiser for the Community Resource Centre.
The following week the Peachland Players Society present The Christmas Bus at 4th Street Place in Peachland.
The B.C. Boys Choir are at the Cleland Theatre Dec. 5 and the Penticton Concert Band performs Dec. 9 at Penticton United Church.
Full details on all these musical events can be found on posters around town, in the What’s Up column in the Review or on the Event Calendar on the Art Council’s website and by subscribing to the weekly e-Palette. Email artspalette@summerlandarts.com for details.
This Arts Palette column is written by David Finnis, Publicity Chair and President of the Summerland Community Arts Council, PO Box 1217, 9533 Main St., Summerland, B.C. V0H 1Z0.
