Wolf Lure hosts annual Vacation Sing-a-Lengthy

WTOP’s Jason Fraley previews the Wolf Lure Vacation Sing-a-Lengthy (Half 1)

It’s time to move over the river and thru the woods to Wolf Lure Nationwide Park for the free annual Holiday Sing-A-Long on Saturday, Dec. 3.

“This began approach again in 1968,” Wolf Lure President & C.E.O. Arvind Manocha instructed WTOP. “Our founder, Catherine Filene Shouse, lived out at Wolf Lure Farm and invited native choirs and the group over to the farm to sing vacation songs and carols collectively. Then, the subsequent 12 months, she invited ‘The President’s Personal’ Marine Band — and that custom caught.”

Because the Filene Middle opened in 1971, “The President’s Personal” United States Marine Band has participated within the Vacation Sing-a-Lengthy yearly. This 12 months, they’ll be joined by greater than 15 native choirs with 600 singers, together with the choirs from Fairfax Choral Society Symphonic Refrain, Colvin Run Elementary Faculty and Saint Paul VI’s Catholic Excessive Faculty.

Manocha mentioned you may depend on traditions comparable to “Pleasure to the World,” “Deck the Halls,” “Frosty the Snowman” and “The Dreidel Tune. As common, everybody will depart the Filene Middle with LED candles singing “Silent Night time.” “We encourage people to carry their LED candles and Christmas bells as a result of there shall be a jing-a-long throughout ‘Jingle Bells,’” he added.

You additionally simply would possibly see appearances from Frosty, Rudolph and Santa Claus amid the gorgeous backdrop of the Filene Middle, which people had been solely capable of see just about throughout the pandemic. This 12 months is the primary vacation sing-a-long again in particular person since 2019.

“It’s gonna be nice,” Manocha mentioned. “We’ve performed a variety of renovations and enhancements on the park over the previous couple of years, so I’m actually excited for folks to come back again to their favourite vacation custom on the new and improved Filene Middle to see all the magnificence, majesty, wreaths, costumes, characters and get again to vacation singing in particular person.”

Guests are additionally invited to donate new, unwrapped toys to Toys for Tots.

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WTOP’s Jason Fraley previews the Wolf Lure Vacation Sing-a-Lengthy (Half 2)

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