Winter's Return Returns to Live Venues!
TANIA OPLAND
🦃 Happy Thanksgiving to all our US based friends - and general Autumn (or Spring) greetings to the rest of our friends around the world :D.
We’re not planning turkey and all the trimmings, but we are spending the day with good friends and festive music! It’s our final rehearsal for ❄️ Winter’s Return 2023 ❄️ with William Pint, Felicia Dale and ourselves.
After two years of virtual concerts (2020, 2021) and one actual all-in-the-same-room live stream (2022), our long running Winter show returns to actual real world stages. It celebrates Winter's many festivities with voices, guitars, drums, whistles, hammered dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, recorder, cittern, violin, and songs to bring light to the darkest winter's day — a diverse and delightful musical celebration of the season. Four world touring musicians join forces to form a powerhouse acoustic quartet inspired by shared delight in the myriad traditions of Winter. (So says our PR!)
Nov 25 (THIS Saturday), 3:00pm
HOODSPORT, WA
St Germain's Episcopal Church, 600 N Lake Cushman Rd, Hoodsport, WA 98548
Presented by Music on the Hill/Tall Timbers house concerts
Dec 2 (Saturday), 7:30 pm
RICHLAND, WA
All Saints Episcopal Church, 1322 Kimball Ave Richland, WA 99352
Presented by Three Rivers Folklore Society (tickets $20)
Dec 8 (Friday), 7:00 pm
SUQUAMISH, WA
Suquamish United Church of Christ, 18732 Division Ave NE, Suquamish, WA 98392
Dec 9 (Saturday), 7:00 pm
PORT TOWNSEND, WA
Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St, Port Townsend, WA 98368
Presented by Quimper Grange and KPTZ (tickets $20 at the door)
Dec 16 (Saturday), 7:30 pm
SEATTLE, WA
Couth Buzzard, 8310 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle WA 98103
Unless other details are listed, our usual practice is to suggest a $20 per person donation at the door, or what you can afford.
I know you’re not all within the small geographic are of this tour, but we hope you’ll share the info with anyone you know who is. We pondered adding a live stream to the schedule, but decided to take it one step at a time, letting the return to live audiences and lots of driving be enough for this year. Next year we’ll see if we can do both! We will be making our past three years of online concert available to view again, starting at the Solstice (Dec 21) and running to the New Year.
Dec 21 - Jan 1: Winter’s Return Online Re-watch Party.
Make all the online shows from 2020-2022 a part of your Holiday festivities. They will all be in this playlist:
✨ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm4N8io9dms3mFZiHI13gyD0iXEO_UQpe ✨
Yes, you’re allowed to call it “Winter’s Rerun"
We hope ALL your Winter holidays are joyful events!!
🎄🕎❄️✨ Tania & Mike 🎶