Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend
December 12th through December 15th
Here's our Top 5 picks for this weekend! Get your last minute holiday gifts at the 16th Annual Gallery of Gifts, The Farm Museum’s holiday tour continues this weekend with Santa in the School House and A Choo Choo Christmas. Don't miss A One-Man Christmas Carol at Carroll Arts Center and check out Cascade Lights, bigger and better than ever! And enjoy the sounds of the season as Common Ground presents: Walt Michael & Co. Holiday Concert! Happy Holidays everyone!
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1. 16th Annual Gallery of Gifts
Friday, November 22 - Saturday, December 21
This holiday season, get something for everyone on your list at our dazzling indoor art market! Featuring dozens of artists, our Tevis Gallery and lobby will be filled with handmade products like jewelry, pottery, tree ornaments, baskets, candles, woodwork, soaps, and more! 2024 Gallery of Gifts Vendors being featured include some of our resident Gift Shop vendors: Boba Studios, Joani’s Jewelry, Cailey Green, Shiloh Pottery, Bead Creation, MK Designs, Meredith Vogel, Tara Bobart, and Leslie Grossman and many other outside vendors as well. The show features the same level of artistic quality that Arts Center gallery visitors have come to expect and encourages our commitment to support local and regional artists in the “shop local and buy handmade” movement.
2. Farm Museum’s holiday tour
Santa in the School House and A Choo Choo Christmas
December 19 - 22nd @ Noon - 4PM
Welcome home for the holidays with Santa visiting us on select weekends in December. Admission is $10 per family. Please bring your own camera to snap a photo with Santa. Food available for purchase onsite. Mrs. Claus slated to join us Sundays ONLY during this event* (Mr. & Mrs. Claus will have a resource with an AAC (Augmentative & Alternative Communication) program available for whomever needs access to it.
This year the Farm Museum’s holiday tour – A Choo Choo Christmas – will highlight all things trains. We welcome you all aboard to tour the Farmhouse where each room will highlight different train aspects and features – visit the chaos of the train station, see freight that was carried and foods that were served in the dining car. Lanterns, toy trains and train destinations will also be highlighted. Come ride the rails with us this holiday season!
3. A One-Man Christmas Carol
Thursday, December 19 @ 7:30 pm
One hour! One man! 18 characters! One holiday sized story of redemption!
Acting as A Christmas Carol author Charles Dickens, actor Jimi Kinstle presents the classic tale in an energetic, emotional one-man show.
The production takes its inspiration from Dickens himself, who in his later years staged one-man readings of his novels around London. He would read and act out the story for audiences with nothing more than the text, a letter opener, a chair, and a small table.
4. Cascade Lights
December 20th - 22nd. from. 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
HOLIDAY LIGHTS TRAIL
MUSICAL LIGHT SHOW
FOOD TRUCKS AND TREATS
SPECIAL EVENTS & LIVE MUSIC
SANTA EVERY NIGHT!
Cascade Lights is back bigger and brighter in 2024!
Feel free to bring your pups to enjoy the lights on 12/22!
Experience the magic at Cascade Lights, Coppermine’s outdoor holiday celebration at Coppermine Cascade Park in Hampstead, MD this season.
EXPERIENCE THE MAGIC
Located at Coppermine Cascade Park
2844 Snydersburg Rd, Hampstead, MD 21074
Join us for a half-mile walking trail of dazzling trees, beautiful holiday lights and decorated trails featuring a choreographed light show. Enjoy several NEW attractions along with last year’s returning favorites. Fun for every age!
Activities EVERY NIGHT include but are not limited to:
Choreographed Light Show • Light Tunnel • Festive (and Decorated) Playground Area • Santa • Holiday Movies • Crafts & Letters to Santa • Community Displays • Axe Throwing (18 & up) • Photo Ops & More
Food truck vendors, hot chocolate,
5. Walt Michael & Co. Holiday Concert
Friday, December 20 @ 7:30 pm
Common Ground Downtown
Join Walt Michael and Company and special guests in their annual holiday concert, featuring seasonal string band music from Scotland, Ireland, New England and Southern Appalachia. Fiddles, guitars, mandolins, banjos, hammered dulcimer and four-part harmonies to ring in your holidays!
This festive performance represents the Southern Appalachian tradition of “Breaking Up Christmas.” A century ago, people in the Southern Appalachian mountains celebrated Christmas over two weeks, with informal house parties filled with old-time fiddle music, song, dance, and story. The traditional folk music of Scotland, Ireland, England, and Africa made their way into remote mountain hollers, later emerging as an integrated American musical genre that continues to evolve. In this great oral tradition, songs and tunes are evaluated and winnowed by time. Memorable melodies and lyrics withstanding this test of time take their place among the venerable repertoire. Come along and break up Christmas with Walt Michael and friends!