Now Streaming On Demand: A English Country Christmas

Featuring members of Whiskey Before Breakfast Band

Enjoy “An English Country Christmas Revels” again and again from the comfort of your own home! Your on-demand ticket includes unlimited access to our online performance from December 29, 2024 until January 31, 2025. This 42nd annual production of Christmas Revels was recorded during a live performance at the Cultural Arts Center Montgomery College, Silver Spring. Share this delightful performance with friends and family

When schoolmistress Fancy Day returns home from the big city, the village is delighted—especially, three gentlemen: stiff-collared Parson Maybold; ambitious gentleman-farmer Frederick Shiner; and the young, innocent Dick Dewey, a member of the village “quire,” a motley group of musicians who have provided pub tunes and church music for generations.

It is the 1830s and change is in the air as manpower is being replaced by machines. Progress comes to Mellstock with the arrival of a new “harmonium,” or pump organ, but the quire has some opinions about being replaced by what they perceive as a new-fangled machine. Love blossoms, traditions are challenged, generations spar, and old becomes new in this lighthearted tale based on the early writings of Thomas Hardy.