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Fairfield Museum invites you to enjoy a concert of Christmas Songs entitled: Christmas in America in the 1800s. You will be sure to get into the holiday spirit with this performance of songs, stories and Christmas traditions at the Fairfield Museum and History Center on Sunday on Sunday, December 7 at 2pm, with an opportunity to sing carols at 1pm.
Enjoy a musical play with musician and storyteller Tom Hanford, and friends as they present an entertaining glimpse of 19th century Christmas traditions. Meet "Tall Tom, The Tale Teller", a Connecticut Yankee of the 1850s, who regales the audience with songs and stories of Irish "wren boys" who sing from door to door on December 26, St. Stephen's Day. Later the audience meets "Belznickel", (actor/violinist, Nick Jacobs) Santa's cranky German American counterpart, who hands out treats to good girls and boys. Audience participation is invited in the telling of "The Baker's Dozen", a story of St. Nicholas in old New York State. Audience members are encouraged to don colorful costumes and masks, grab shakers or drums and portray African American "John Canoe Revelers". The lovely soprano voice of Nancy Finlay joins Tom's on "Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow" and other seasonal songs. The program is enhanced by authentic 19th century costumes and painted props and masks.
The performance is free for museum members, and non-members are free with admission. The event is sponsored by Tauck Tours, and is part of the Museum’s Family First Sundays programming, offered the first Sunday of each month. For more information, please visit the Museum’s website, www.fairfieldhs.org or call 203-259-1598.
About the performers:
TOM HANFORD is a musician, storyteller, and visual artist who is listed in the Directory of Performing Artists of The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. For over 15 years he has been taking his family programs to such historic sites as Olana, Clermont, Philipsburg Manor, Old Sturbridge Village, and Old Bethpage Village as well as to museums, festivals, schools, and libraries in the northeast. He holds a Masters Degree in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State University and is a teacher of the Music Together program in Litchfield and Fairfield Counties.
NICK JACOBS is an actor, poet, photographer, violinist and radio personality who hosts "Music, Sacred and Profane" on WPKN Bridgeport, 89.5 FM. He was trained in film and theater at UCLA and the London Film School. His photographic clients have included Perry Ellis, Liz Claiborne, and sculptor, Tim Prentice. He is a cofounder of the Connecticut Governor's Arts Award winners, "Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children's Theater" and toured with them nationally, including appearances at Lincoln Center, Bushnell Park, The Discovery Museum and The National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. His own programs for young people have been hosted by schools in New York State and New England.
About Fairfield Museum and History Center
The Fairfield Museum and History Center was established in 2007 by the Fairfield Historical Society. The 13,000 square-foot museum presents engaging exhibition galleries, a special collection library and reading room, a family education center, an 80 seat theater overlooking Fairfield's Town Green and a delightful museum shop. The Museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of Fairfield, Connecticut and surrounding regions for present and future generations. The museum provides educational programs to schools in and around Fairfield County, and helps to enrich the cultural and social life of the area. The Museum has quickly become an integral part of Fairfield, serving nearly 10,000 visitors in its inaugural year.
The museum, located at 370 Beach Road in Fairfield, CT, is open seven days a week. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students and seniors, members of the museum and children age 5 and under are free of charge. For current program and exhibition information, visit www.fairfieldhs.org and for group tour reservations and information, please call 203-259-1598.
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