Washington Revels presents
The Christmas Revels
In Celebration of the Winter Solstice English Country Music, Dance, and Drama

For our 28th annual Christmas Revels in Washington, DC, we travel to novelist Thomas Hardy’s beloved “Wessex” to the little town of Mellstock in the countryside of nineteenth-century England. We’ll celebrate an English Country Christmas with traditional carols, anthems, rounds, country dancing, and a hilarious mummer’s play. This year’s guest artists, The Mellstock Band, come from England with a wonderful collection of string and wind instruments, including the haunting ”serpent,” a snake-like ancestor of the tuba.