There are several holiday events and performances scheduled, this is an overview from our events calendar for the weekend of December 13th and 14th.
First, this Friday, Tuolumne Park and Recreation will present the annul Christmas Parade and Market in downtown Tuolumne. The Parade will start at 6 PM. The Market will open before the parade at 4 PM at Westside Memorial Park. Stroll through the festive marketplace, shop local vendors, and enjoy delicious food available for purchase. After the parade, warm up inside the Memorial Hall with cookies and hot chocolate while you explore even more holiday cheer.
It is 2nd Saturday Art Night in Downtown Sonora and you can join Tuolumne County Arts for a free arts and craft workshop. This month’s activity will be DIY Paper Box-Making by Stacy Lindsey. No registration is required, but workshops may run out of space. There is also an economic development workshop planned as detailed in the news story here.
The Word of Life Fellowship will be performing the Christmas Musicale, “Proclaim!” Performances are at 7 PM Friday and Saturday and Sunday at 1 PM.
Pine Cone Singers will perform their concert “Wonders of Winter” on Friday at 7 PM at Evangelical Free Church in Groveland. The concert repeats on Saturday and Sunday at 2 PM ticket details are here.
Join the Jamestown Youth Center’s annual Breakfast with Santa fundraiser is Saturday from 9-11:30 AM at the Jamestown Community Hall. Event details and more about the breakfast and tickets are here.
Permits to cut Christmas trees in the National Forest are available now, details are here.
The Annual Kids’ Christmas Party at Ebbetts Pass Moose Lodge will be this Saturday from 11 AM to 12:30 PM with cookie decorating, crafts, face painting, goodies, a prize raffle and a visit with Santa Claus as detailed here.
Support the MiWuk/Sugar Pine Fire Protection District and get photos Saturday with Santa from 11 AM – 2PM as detailed here.
The Columbia College Men’s Basketball team will host Contra Costa College Saturday at 6 PM. Details about the season are in our events calendar here.
Sunday at 11 AM the Columbia All Equestrian Parade starts. The Historic Columbia tradition, produced by the Back Country Horsemen, and is open to all ages of equestrian riders/drivers and mounted groups. Later on Sunday in Columbia is the Las Posadas Nativity Procession. In the Spanish tradition, the biblical story of Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve will be re-enacted at 5:30 pm with a distinctive 1850s flavor. Onlookers hold candles and are led in singing Christmas Carols.
Heritage Park at Black Oak Casino will be decorated as a Winter Wonderland. The park’s lights offer photo opportunities through the holidays and this Sunday and next Sunday, December 21, from 5 to 7 pm Santa will be making an appearance. There will also be hot chocolate, cider, and treats.
Over 50 non-profits are participating in Christmas Tree Lane in Courthouse Park. This Saturday Santa and Mrs. Claus will also be in Courthouse Park from 4 pm to 7 pm courtesy of the City of Sonora and the Sonora Chamber of Commerce. This season’s Santa schedule, including the Holly Jolly Wagon, is in our community calendar here.
If you want to take a Christmas tree home, you can support Dramatics Family Theater/Winters Haven Resource center. Dramatics performs several plays a year suitable for children performed by specific age groups. They are selling Christmas trees to raise funds at the old Red Church Thrift Store location in Tuolumne as detailed here.
The nightly Holiday Light Show in Crystal Falls continues with a large light display and Christmas songs starting on Eel River Drive from American River Drive, details are here. Another Christmas Light Show will be on Joyce Court off Phoenix Lake Road as detailed here.
Select a Christmas Giving Tree tag and donate gifts to those in need named on the tag. A giving tree is at the Junction Shopping Center, purchase a gift for the child listed on your tag and return the unwrapped gift and tag by December 15. There is also a Giving Tree at WildBud Floral Company in downtown Sonora. Return the wrapped gift with the tag by December 23 to benefit those in need at the Center for A Non-Violent Community.
Murphys Creek Theater will host the Mountain Melody Women’s Chorus holiday music program with songs of “Pure Imagination.” The performance is from 2 to 4 pm with such classics as “Sleigh Ride” and “Christmas Waltz” and new favorites like “Sing Gently” and “Walking in the Air.”
Murphys Creek Theater is performing “Over the River and Through the Woods” in the evenings with some matinées. The play is from Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro, and described by Director Maryann Curmi as “A heartwarming experience about what the holidays are truly about, faith, family, and food.” Tickets are pay what you can, here.
It is the last weekend for performances at Sierra Repertory’s East Sonora Theatre for Million Dollar Quartet Christmas. The performance will include holiday hits from Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley as detailed in the blog by Tori James here. Performances of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, adapted for the stage by Richard Hellesen continue at the Fallon House Theater.
The restaurant of the month in our dining guide is Gus’s Steak House. Check out all the Sonora Christmas Town Events, the movie times at local theaters, skiers and snowboarders check out local webcams here and the snow reports from open California ski resorts are in the weather section here.
