![]() ![]() Sandy Spring Museum, 17901 Bentley Rd., Sandy Spring. Boxwood wreaths, trees and centerpieces made by the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club will be available for purchase. $25, $20 in advance, students and youth free.įrosty & Friends Bring the kids for crafts, holiday music, refreshments, a kids-only shop, a silent auction and photo ops with Frosty, Rudolph and Santa. Knights of Columbus Rosensteel Hall, 9707 Rosensteel Ave., Silver Spring. Potomac River Jazz Club’s Holiday Big Band Bash Guitarist Matt Trimboli leads the 18-piece band Swing Shift. Glenview Mansion, 603 Edmonston Dr., Rockville. and Harmony Express, a men’s a cappella chorus, at 2:30 p.m. ![]() Claus features Heavenly Handbells of Trinity Lutheran Church at 1 p.m. ![]() Glenview Mansion Holiday Concerts Children’s Sunday with Santa and Mrs. $16, seniors and children 12 and younger $12. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 Edmonston Dr., Rockville. Rockville Civic Ballet Claudia Mangan directs a traditional performance of “The Nutcracker.” Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., closes Sunday at 2 p.m. Parilla Performing Arts Center, 51 Mannakee St., Rockville. Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday-Sunday at 1 and 5 p.m. Metropolitan Ballet Theatre and Academy Since 1989, this ballet has staged a full-length version of “The Nutcracker” featuring students and professional dancers. Friday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday noon-5 p.m. Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard is also on the tour. $28-$84, children free.Ĭountryside Artisans’ Studio Tour The 20th annual self-guided holiday studio tour offers a glimpse at handmade fine art, furniture, pottery, knitted and woven apparel, yarn, jewelry and more. Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. National Philharmonic Led by Stan Engebretson, the orchestra performs Handel’s “Messiah,” featuring soprano Danielle Talamantes, mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wor, tenor Matthew Smith, bass Kevin Deas and the National Philharmonic Chorale. $25, seniors and students $20, Montgomery College staff and students $15. Cultural Arts Center at Silver Spring, 7995 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring. The Klezmatics The Grammy-winning klezmer band presents a Hanukkah concert. Elizabeth Catholic Church, 917 Montrose Rd., Rockville. A portion of the proceeds will benefit National Institutes of Health Charities. Highly recommended.NIH Philharmonia The orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.1 (“Winter Dreams”) and Symphony No.6 (“Pathetique”). The fiddle tunes from this part of the world have a very particular flavor, and rural dancehalls like this one are their natural habitat. On disc one, she skirls out her medleys of Irish, Scottish, and Canadian tunes over a bed of rock and funk grooves that mesh surprisingly well with her snappy hornpipes and jigs on disc two, which was recorded in a small dancehall in the tiny town of Glencoe Mills, her playing is every bit as exuberant - maybe even a bit more so, as the dancing intensifies and the temperature in the room rises. The energy level is the same in both contexts, but the vibe, obviously, is quite different. This two-disc set doesn't provide quite the same experience as one of her concerts, but it does offer plenty of high-energy foot-stomping fun, as well as demonstrating the intriguing contrast between her concert-hall shows - during which she dresses like Shania Twain and is accompanied by drums, electric guitar, keyboards, and percussion - and her dancehall gigs, during which she is generally accompanied only by acoustic guitar and piano. If you've been wondering what the big fuss is about Cape Breton fiddler Natalie McMaster, it may be because you haven't had the chance to see her perform live. ![]()
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