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Lvr Farmers Market
Niles Canyon Train of Lights
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New Moon
Live More, Save More |
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Mariah McManus
Niles Canyon Train of Lights |
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Niles Canyon Train of Lights |
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Pls Farmers Market
Home for the Holidays
Holidays in the
Vineyards
Live More, Save More
Niles Canyon Train of Lights
Pls Hometown Holiday Celeb
Lvr Tree Lighting & Parade
Livemore-Amador Symphony |
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Lvr Farmers Market
Ravenswood Victorian
Holidays in the
Vineyards
A Doo Wop Holiday
Niles Canyon Train of Lights |
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Moon 1st Qtr |
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A WWII Christmas |
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Niles Canyon Train of Lights |
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Journey to
Living Bethlehem |
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Niles Canyon Train of Lights
Journey to
Living Bethlehem
Willy Wonka Jr.
December People
Holiday |
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Pls Farmers Market
Cantabella
Children's Chorus
Willy Wonka Jr.
The Nutcracker
Niles Canyon Train of Lights
Journey to
Living Bethlehem |
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Lvr Farmers Market
Willy Wonka Jr.
The Nutcracker
Valley Concert
Chorale
Journey to
Living Bethlehem
Niles Canyon Train of Lights
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Live More, Save More |
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Full Moon |
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Niles Canyon Train of Lights |
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Niles Canyon Train of Lights
Willy Wonka Jr.
The Nutcracker |
21 First Day of Winter
Pls Farmers Market
Willy Wonka Jr.
James Garner, A Cash
The Nutcracker
Niles Canyon Train of Lights |
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Lvr Farmers Market
Willy Wonka Jr.
The Nutcracker
Niles Canyon Train of Lights |
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Niles Canyon Train of Lights |
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Moon Last Qtr
Cash Mob - Lvr DwnTwn |
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Niles Canyon Train of Lights
Big Fat Year
End Comedy XXI |
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Pls Farmers Market
Niles Canyon Train of Lights |
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Lvr Farmers Market
Niles Canyon Train of Lights |
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Roy Rogers |
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December 2013 Details
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Niles Canyon Railway Train of Lights. Experience the magic of our brightly decorated holiday train, covered with thousands of lights, as it winds through the darkness of Niles Canyon on a 75-minute round-trip ride from Niles to Sunol and back, and the later train from Sunol to Niles and back. This annual fundraising event is presented by the Pacific Locomotive Association to benefit Niles Canyon Railway projects throughout the year. We are sincerely grateful for all of our supporters who help our non-profit, tax-exempt, living history museum continue to operate and grow. Trains run both from Sunol to Niles and back, and from Niles to Sunol and back. Location: Downtown Sunol Times: Departures from 4:30pm from Niles, 7:30 from Sunol Admission: General seating is $25 ages 3 and up. See the Niles Canyon Railroad. $17 for Wednesdays: Dec 4, 11, 18 Reserved seating is $40. Private Caboose: $600 for up to 24 people. eLivermore Photos. More info: Niles Canyon Railroad. Info should be on the Niles Canyon site mid to late September. Ticket purchases around the 2nd week of October. 2013 Dates - From Sunol
2013 Dates - From Niles
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Mariah McManus |
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Creatures of Impulse Holiday Shorts Join Creatures of Impulse for a Firehouse Arts Center holiday tradition! Your suggestions will inspire holiday themed games, scenes, and audience interactions in the first act. The audience will then vote for which short scene Creatures of Impulse will make into an entire improvised 'play' in the second act. Produced and presented by the award-winning Creatures of Impulse Teen Improv Troupe. Sponsor: City of Pleasanton Location: Firehouse Arts Center - 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton Times: 7:30pm Admission: Adult: $10; Student: $5; COI Early Bird Adult: $5; COI Early Bird Student: $2 More info: www.firehousearts.org |
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Valley Concert Choral - Sing it Yourself Messiah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dec 6 Fri
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Valley Concert Choral - Sing it Yourself
Messiah It’s our annual holiday event. Join in singing Part I of Handel’s great masterpiece, including the Hallelujah Chorus. Sponsor: Valley Concert Chorale Location: Trinity Lutheran Church 1225 Hopyard Rd, Pleasanton Times: 7:30pm Admission: $10 ($11.34 with service fee). Tickets at Valley Concert Chorale website. More info: Valley Concert Chorale |
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Holidays in the Vineyards Livermore Valley Wine Country celebrates the season with a weekend full of holiday cheer! Holidays in the Vineyards is an annual wine country tradition where wineries showcase their tasting rooms with arts and craft vendors, holiday music, special wines, and more. Guests are encouraged to bring toys to their favorite wineries. All toys will be donated to the Toys for Tots Foundation after the event, directly benefiting children in need throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. For more on the Toys for Tots program, visit http://www.toysfortots.org/ We look forward to ringing in the Holiday Season with you in Livermore
Valley Wine Country. Participating Wineries: Bent Creek Winery, Big White House Winery, Bodegas Aguirre, Charles R
Vineayrds, Concannon Vineyard, Crooked Vine Winery, Cuda Ridge Wines, Dante
Robere Vineyards, Darcie Kent Vineyards, Eagle Ridge Vineyard, Eckert Estate
Winery, El Sol Winery, Elliston Vineyards, Ehrenberg Cellars, Fenestra
Winery, Garre Vineyard and Winery, La Rochelle Winery, Las Positas
Vineyards, Les Chenes Estate Vineyards, Longevity Wines, McGrail Vineyard
and Winery, Mitchell Katz Winery, Murrieta's Well, Nottingham Cellars,
Occasio Winery, Page Mill Winery, Retzlaff Estate Vineyards, Stony Ridge
Winery, The Singing Winemaker, The Steven Kent Winery, Thomas Coyne, Wente
Vineyards Estate Winery & Tasting Room, Wente Vineyards Vineyard Tasting
Room, White Crane Winery, Wood Family Vineyards |
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Home for the Holidays Kick off the holiday shopping season downtown and enjoy free horse drawn carriage rides throughout the downtown, holiday performances at the Flag Pole Plaza and SNOW in Lizzie Fountain! Sponsor: Livermore Downtown Association Location: Downtown Livermore Times: noon to 4:00pm Admission: Free More info: Livermore Downtown Association, (925) 373-1795 |
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Livermore Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting The 2013 Downtown Livermore Holiday Sights & Sounds Parade will feature local marching bands, music, light displays, and of course SANTA CLAUS!!! Tree lighting to follow parade. Sponsor: Livermore Downtown Association Location: Downtown Livermore Times: Parade from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, Tree lighting following the parade Admission: Free More info: Livermore Downtown Association or (925) 373-1795 |
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Dec 7 Sat |
Livermore-Amador Symphony - Gems from
the Past and Present Gershwin: An American in Paris Barnes: Concerto for Trumpet - Joyce Johnson Hamilton, soloist Lees: Concerto for Woodwind Quintet and Orchestra Avanti Winds, quintet Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 After finishing its fiftieth season (2012–13) in joyous style, the
Livermore-Amador Symphony continues its golden celebrations with a yearlong
festival honoring Joyce Johnson HamiltonDr. Arthur Barnes’ fiftieth season
as its conductor! Join us for another fantastic year of great music, fun,
and surprise. Dr. Barnes’ golden season showcases a number of works of his
authorship, starting with his own Concerto for Trumpet, a work celebrating
the breadth of the instrument, the focused skill of soloist Joyce Johnson
Hamilton, and the remarkable compositional talents of the conductor.
Rounding out the inaugural concert of Dr Barnes’ golden season are George
Gershwin’s vibrant “American in Paris”; Ludwig van Beethoven’s magnificent
early Symphony No. 2; and Benjamin Lees’ modern, robust Concerto for
Woodwind Quintet and Orchestra, featuring the Avanti Winds (Ellen Crawford,
flute; Audrey Gore, oboe; Jeffrey Wolfeld, clarinet; Jennifer Barnes Wolfeld,
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Pleasanton Hometown Holiday Parade and Tree Lighting
Ceremonies The City of Pleasanton will once again salute the season by hosting the Annual Hometown Holiday Celebration to be held on Saturday, December 7, 2013 from 5:00 to 7:15 p.m. along Main Street in downtown Pleasanton. This free, family-friendly event features a festive community-based parade followed by the lighting of a holiday tree in front of the Museum on Main. Kicking off the parade will be one of Pleasanton’s award-winning high school marching bands from either Amador Valley High School or Foothill High School. The band is followed by a wide array of holiday inspired entries including Pleasanton’s own Balloon Platoon, the Pleasanton City Council, hundreds of Cub Scouts and Brownies, local car clubs, performing arts groups, and much more. Main Street will close to vehicular traffic at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 7. Parade viewers are encouraged to shop and dine in historic Downtown Pleasanton after staking out their viewing turf. The Hometown Holiday program relies on the support of the community to make the event a success and volunteers are still needed! Those interested in volunteering for the event are encouraged to visit www.hometownholiday.com. In the event of rain, a parade cancellation telephone hotline will be
implemented and updated each hour after 2:30 p.m. on parade day, December 7.
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A Doo Wop Holiday Celebration |
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A WWII Christmas |
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Journey to Living Bethlehem Live the nativity and experience the birth of Christ in a way you never imagined possible. Be transported back in time over 2,000 years and enter the 30,000 square foot village of Bethlehem - right in downtown Livermore. We are proud to present a unique, live, inter-active play featuring 3 separate acts performed simultaneously in- and outside the village walls, where they all ultimately converge for the final scene and finale. Have you ever smelled real frankincense? Come explore the marketplace full of livestock while villagers, artisans and merchants demonstrate period games, skills, arts and crafts. Make way for the boisterous and tyrannical Roman Army as you are commanded to register for the census. Then follow Joseph as he leads Mary atop their donkey, and, while searching for a room for the night, they meet a woman at a well. Share in the wonder and awe as shepherds bear witness to Angel Gabriel, high in the heavens, announcing the birth of the messiah. Then behold an exotic caravan of musicians and dancers as they escort the Three Wise Men, one on a real, live camel, bearing gifts for the newborn Jesus Christ ... all the while enjoying many lovely holiday musical pieces performed by our talented cast and the grand finale complete with choral extravaganza as an ethereal Nativity Angel floats above the stable. This presentation is entirely ecumenical and is performed and produced with over 250 volunteers of multiple faiths from numerous churches and parishes within the Tri-Valley. To our knowledge, we are the only family holiday event, in our area, which is *entirely commercial free* and FREE TO THE PUBLIC. So won't you please join us for a cup of complimentary hot chocolate and let our gift to you be a gift that you share with your friends, family and neighbors? This is the 2nd year of Living Bethlehem and we would love nothing more
than to continue this every year and make it a holiday tradition for you and
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Willy Wonka Jr. - Civic Arts Stage Company Delight your sweet tooth with Roald Dahl's timeless story of the world-famous candy man! Willy Wonka's quest to find an heir comes to life in this stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which features the songs from the classic family film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The colorful cast of characters dance to life in this scrumdidilyumptious musical! Sponsor: City of Pleasanton Location: Amador Theater Times: Friday: 7:30pm; Saturday: 2:00 & 7:30pm; Sunday: 2:00pm Admission: Adult: $18/$15/$12; Senior (62+): $12/$9/$6; Child (12 & under): $12/$9/$6 More info: www.firehousearts.org |
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December People Holiday Rock 'N Roll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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December People Holiday Rock 'N Roll Something classic, something new, something familiar...yet totally original! This high-powered quintet, made up of some of the world's biggest bands (including Boston's lead guitarist Gary Pihl), presents a family-friendly classic rock Christmas show for all ages. December People plays familiar Holiday songs in the styles of all the top bands of our time. A wonderful, heart-warming, rockin' good time! Sponsor: City of Pleasanton Location: Firehouse Arts Center - 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton Times: 8:00pm Admission: $40/$35/$30 More info: www.firehousearts.org |
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Cantabella Children's Chorus - Noel Nouvelet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cantabella Children's Chorus - Noel
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Valley Concert Choral The Chorale’s annual holiday performances of familiar and traditional carols to fill spirits with the joy of the season. Cantabella Children’s Chorus joins the Chorale in celebrating Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday with a performance of his Ceremony of Carols for an enjoyable musical experience. Sponsor: Valley Concert Chorale Location: Saturday: Trinity Lutheran Church 1225 Hopyard Rd, Pleasanton Sunday: First Presbyterian Church, 2020 Fifth St (4th & L), Livermore Times: Saturday: 7:30pm; Sunday: 3:00pm Admission: $20 ($21.69 with service Fee) Student: $10 ($11.34 with service fee). Tickets at Valley Concert Chorale website. More info: Valley Concert Chorale |
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The Nutcracker - Valley Dance Theater Experience the magic of the Nutcracker. This annual Tri-Valley holiday event continues to enchant audiences of all ages, bringing Tchaikovsky’s well-known music and ballet to life with all of its elegance and beauty. Thrill to a stage filled with one magical nutcracker, a swirl of lovely snowflakes, adorable mice, dancing soldiers and a glittering sugar plum fairy. For over 30 years, Valley Dance Theatre’s full production of The Nutcracker,accompanied by the Livermore-Amador Symphony, has entertained families each holiday season. The elaborate sets, skilled dancers and beautiful costumes have established Valley Dance Theatre as the premier ballet company of the Tri-Valley. Sponsor: Valley Dance Theater Location: Bankhead Theater - LVPAC web site - eLivermore Bankhead Theater page Times: Sat Dec 14: 2:00 & 7:00pm Sun Dec 15: 2:00pm Fri Dec 20: 7:00pm Sat Dec 21: 2:00pm & 7:00pm Sun Dec 22: 2:00pm & 7:00pm Admission: $34/$28/$24; Student 17 & under: $18 More info: Valley Dance Theater or Bankhead Theater |
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James Garner A Cash Country Christmas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Garner A Cash Country Christmas He's back...but this time with an added twist, just in time for the Holiday Season! Along with all of the hits like Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line, and A Boy Names Sue, this season James Garner and his band recreate those memorable versions of classic Holiday songs from the numerous Christmas albums. A fun, toe-tapping trip down memory lane honoring Johnny Cash's life and his longtime backing band, the Tennessee Three...a Holiday treat the whole famiy can enjoy. Sponsor: City of Pleasanton Location: Firehouse Arts Center - 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton Times: 2:00pm & 8:00pm Admission: Adult: $25/$20/$15; Senior (62+): $22/$20/$15; Child (12 & under): $12 More info: www.firehousearts.org |
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Livermore Library Events Sponsor: Livermore Library Locations: See specific event for its location. Main (Civic Center) Library: 1188 S Livermore Ave. Rincon Branch: 725 Rincon Ave. Springtown Branch: 998 Bluebell Dr Times: See Table Admission: Free. More info: Livermore Library, 925 373-5500 Photo by Bill Nale |
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