Ellwood City Area Civic Chorale announces Christmas concert schedule

The Ellwood City Area Civic Chorale will perform Christmas concerts on seven dates this holiday season.

In addition to its traditional Christmas concerts, the Civic Chorale also will provide the Chorale enhancements to the annual Boars Head Festival, an hour-long medieval Christmas pageant at Christ Presbyterian Church in Ellwood City.

All events are free and open to the public.

Ellwood Civic Chorale has a busy holiday season.
Ellwood Civic Chorale has a busy holiday season.

The schedule:

Nov. 26: 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., Boars Head Festival, Christ Presbyterian Church, Spring Street, Ellwood City.

Nov. 27: 6 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 416 Crescent Ave., Ellwood City.

Dec. 3: 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., Boars Head Festival, Christ Presbyterian Church, Ellwood City.

Dec. 4: 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., Boars Head Festival, Christ Presbyterian Church, Ellwood City.

Dec. 11: 2 p.m., Bakerstown United Methodist, Route 8, Gibsonia.

Dec. 11: 6 p.m., New Brighton Free Methodist Church, 925 11th St., New Brighton.

Dec. 18: 6 p.m., Passavant Retirement Community, 105 Burgess Drive, Zelienople.

Since 1954, the Ellwood City Area Civic Chorale has spread their joy of singing in two concert seasons per year, Christmas and Spring, to be deemed the Musical Ambassadors of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania by the local Chamber of Commerce.

Celebrating major anniversary years with fundraised travel to destinations as diverse as Walt Disney World, Frankenmuth, Michigan, Washington, D.C. and under the Pennsylvania Capitol Dome for the late Gov. Robert Casey, the Civic Chorale has left audience members with a song in their hearts.

This article originally appeared on Beaver County Times: Ellwood City Area Civic Chorale announces Christmas concert dates