The Mad River Chorale will present holiday concerts, "Wintertide Carols," on Saturday December 8, 7:30 pm, at the Waitsfield United Church/Village Meeting House and Sunday December 9, 3:00 pm, at the Waterbury Congregational Church/White Meeting House.

Conductor Mary Jane Austin and accompanist Alison Cerutti will be joined by harpist Rebecca Kaufmann and oboist Katie Oprea for holiday music old and new. Mad River Chorale, founded in 1993, is celebrating the start of its second quarter-century this year. Numbering almost fifty singers, the community chorus has members hailing from fourteen central Vermont towns and sings a variety of beautiful and challenging music.

This weekend's program will include pieces by Benjamin Britten, John Rutter, Morten Lauridsen, Randall Thompson, Stephen Paulus, André Thomas, and of course George Frideric Handel in the ever-popular Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah with voluntary audience participation. The musical program is eclectic: sacred and secular, rousing and gentle, familiar and less familiar, composed from the 16th century to the 20th, all chosen to welcome the holiday season.

Advance tickets are available at madriverchorale.net or 496-2048. As always, children age 11 and under are admitted free and those who bring a non-perishable item for the food shelf receive a reduction on admission.

Jan 2, 2025, 12 to 1 PM

Jan 4, 2025, 9 AM to 2 PM

Jan 6, 2025