NOVEMBER / DECEMBER EVENTS
Museum Shop Sunday
Shawn Colvin
A Civil War Christmas in Camp
Nov. 25 | 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Nov. 29 | 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 8 | noon-4 p.m.
Stop by your favorite Alexandria museums and enjoy special activities and discounts at their museum shops. Give the gift of history to your friends and family. Participating museums include the Alexandria History Museum at The Lyceum, Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, Apothecary Museum, Friendship Firehouse, Alexandria Black History Museum, Fort Ward Museum and Alexandria Archaeology Museum. (Hours vary by site. See HistoricAlexandria.org for more information on museum hours.)
Shawn Colvin is on tour in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Grammy-winning A Few Small Repairs album. Tickets are $55.
Learn about Christmas traditions during the Civil War. See the decorated Officers’ Hut, a Victorian tree, fort tours and participate in activities.
The Birchmere Music Hall, 3701 Mount Vernon Avenue, birchmere.com
Fort Ward Museum & Historic Park, 4301 W. Braddock Road, alexandriava.gov/FortWard
December
Carbon Leaf
Various Locations
Dec. 6, 2018 | 4 p.m.
Christmas Candlelight Tea Hear a variety of Christmas poems, both traditional and contemporary, as you relax over a unique holiday tea by candlelight at Green Spring Gardens. Tickets are $45.
PHOTO COURTESY OF VISIT ALEXANDRIA
Green Spring Gardens, 4603 Green Spring Road, fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/green-spring
Dec. 13, Dec. 14 | 7:30 p.m. Carbon Leaf celebrates 25 years together with a new album, Gathering Vol. 1, and an extensive tour that includes Dec. 13 and 14 at The Birchmere. Carbon Leaf blends rock, folk, Celtic, bluegrass and Americana traditions into a high-energy style the group calls ether-electrified porch music. Tickets are $39.50. The Birchmere Music Hall, 3701 Mount Vernon Avenue, birchmere.com
PHOTO BY M. ENRIQUEZ FOR VISIT ALEXANDRIA
Beaujolais Nouveau Day Celebration Nov. 15, 2018 | 7:30-10 p.m. PHOTO BY RACHEL HEGARTY
Old Town Farmers Market
Alexandria participates in the world’s largest wine party on Beaujolais Nouveau Day. Marked in France on the third Thursday in November, the earliest French law allows this year’s wine to be served. Various locations, visitalexandriava.com
Every Saturday | 7 a.m. - noon Held each Saturday morning year-round, the farmers’ market is an event that has been at the Market Square plaza for more than 260 years. In fact, Old Town Farmers’ Market is the oldest farmers’ market in the country which has been held continuously at the same site. George Washington sent his produce from Mount Vernon to be sold at the Farmer’s Market. Today, the market offers residents of and visitors to Alexandria a way to reconnect to the past, while participating in an ongoing local and national tradition. During the peak season, there are more than 70 vendors offering fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry, cheeses, breads, pastries, fresh pasta, pickled vegetables, cut flowers, potted plants, soaps, fabric art, and paintings. Market Square, 301 King Street
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Colonial Handbell Ringers Concert Dec. 16 | 2-3:30 p.m. The Colonial English Handbell Ringers perform clad in colonial attire, bringing a historic feel to this concert. Enjoy listening to this 5-octave set of nearly 80 handbells from the world-famous Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London. Lyceum, 201 S. Washington Street, alexandriava.gov/Lyceum