Treat the family to a holiday outing they’ll remember with joy – Mainstage Center for the Arts (MCA) Holiday Concert & Family Festival, December 21 and 22. The event includes visits with Santa, the opportunity to make homemade ornaments, and an uplifting concert. The show features Mainstage’s Harmony and Encore Show Choirs, along with soprano Robin Wilson; performances by the Mainstage Dance Company; and a guest performance by Country Music artist Sherry Lynn. The Saturday, December 21, concert begins at 7 p.m., while Sunday’s starts at 2 p.m. Doors open for festival activities one hour prior to both concerts.
“Our performance groups have rehearsed for months to present a wonderful show. We enjoy sharing the concert and holiday-festivities with our audience. All of us here at Mainstage just love seeing the children’s faces as they meet Santa, or enjoy cookies from our Cookie Walk,” said Anne Marie Weaver, MCA director of Special Events.
The cookie walk is a fundraiser for the Harmony Show Choir to help offset touring expenses. The teenage show choir members, along with their parents, bake delicious holiday cookies such as nut rolls, chocolate chips, butter cookies, crushed candy canes, and more. Volunteers display the cookies so folks can travel along the “cookie walk” filling bags to enjoy over the holidays
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The event, along with MCA’s 2013-14 season, is sponsored by Comegno Law Group, P.C.
To purchase tickets for the Holiday Concert and Family Festival, visit www.mainstage.org, or call (855) 936-2467, ext. 3. Ticket prices are $12. - $15. A small gift from Santa is included in this price. MCA charges a nominal fee for the ornament making station and other activities.
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In addition to this event, MCA looks forward to entertaining throughout the New Year. Upcoming performances include The Mainstage Studio Winter Showcase, Saturday, January 11; What’s So Funny About Love & Marriage, Saturday, February 14; An Evening with HAPA (Hawaiian group), Saturday, March 8; the Dovells, Saturday, March 15, and Romeo & Juliet, April 4 and 5. Please check the website, www.mainstage.org for more details.
Mainstage Center for the Arts, head quartered at Academy Hall, Blackwood, Gloucester Township, with performances located at Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ is committed to make the arts experience enjoyable for all its patrons. In an effort to make the shows, concerts, events, workshops, classes, and offices accessible to as many as possible, Mainstage offers many services for patrons requiring assistance. For anyone in need of assistance, please notify the office at (856) 227-3091 at the time of purchasing tickets, or at least five days prior to the event you are attending.
Mainstage Center for the Arts, the parent program for Summer Stage, is a 501 © (3) non-profit organization committed to providing a creative, vibrant, and nurturing environment for youth and adults. This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is also made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey Cultural Trust.
