Nowell Sing We Clear (Special Event)

Bring the whole family (including your voices) to the Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, in downtown Silver Spring, for this year?s edition of Nowell Sing We Clear. Every year this lively quartet (John Roberts, Tony Barrand, Fred Breunig and Andy Davis) culls carols, songs, tales and customs of Winter Solstice, Christmas, and New Year?s celebrations to craft a high-energy, participatory entertainment. It?s a family-friendly afternoon guaranteed to reverse the darkness of winter and start the trend toward longer days and the greening of spring to come!

Nowell Sing We Clear celebrates Christmas as it was observed for centuries in Britain and North America, and as it is still kept in some places. Many songs come from an age when the midwinter season was a time for joyous celebration and vigorous expression of older, pagan religious traditions. While some of the singing is unaccompanied, the performance also features the energetic dance band sound of fiddle, button accordion, electric piano, drums, and concertina. Some ?new? (that is ?different?) songs and carols are introduced every year. We have a very special door prize of Nowell recordings to award a concert-goer.