Fasten your seat belts. The sleigh is shifting into high gear!
Greater Morristown is full of holiday merriment this weekend.
Scroll down and see for yourself. Check our handy calendar for even more activities–and add your own events, too!
THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 2017:
The Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre and Hot House Jazz Magazine salute the 2017 Fans Decision Jazz Awards with a holiday concert featuring Female Jazz Vocalist winner Champian Fulton and Male Rising Star winner “King” Solomon Hicks, at 7:30 pm. Tickets: $18 in advance, $20 at the door. At 6 Normandy Heights Road, Morris Township. Call (973) 971-3706 for more.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison presents It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, at 8 pm. Tickets start at $69. At Drew University, 36 Madison Ave. Call 973-408-5600. Read our review.
FRIDAY, DEC. 15:
Morning Yoga with Munah Hayes returns to the Morristown & Township Library at 9:30 am. Free. Bring a yoga mat. At One Miller Road, Morristown.
The Christmas Festival at the Morristown Green resumes this weekend. Today’s schedule:
Santa House: 2 to 8 p.m. – Santa visits and photos* (Photos are $10)
Tent: 4 to 5 p.m. – Morristown High School Marching Band – performing a Christmas Carol variety
The Folk Project’s Holiday Benefit Concert promises fun and surprises, starting with a 7 pm carol-sing, followed by a 7:30 pm concert featuring Carolyn Messina, Gordon Thomas Ward, Sharon Goldman, We Three Ukes and a Frosty Morning reunion. Suggested donation: $15. Proceeds benefit The Minstrel’s weekly host, the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, home to this event, at 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morris Township.
The New Jersey Ballet’s Nutcracker brings all the pageantry and splendor of this holiday classic back to Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center at 7:30 pm. Featuring the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Tickets:$29-$69. At 100 South St. Call 973-539-8008.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison presents It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, at 8 pm. Please see Thursday entry for details.
SATURDAY, DEC. 16:
It’s full speed ahead at the Christmas Festival at the Morristown Green:
Santa House: Noon to 7 p.m. – Santa visits and photos*
Tent:
- 1 to 5 p.m. – Sponsor Exhibitors: Bath Fitters NJ
- 1 to 3 p.m. – Mayo Performing Arts Company – singing holiday favorites
- 4 to 6 p.m. – Gingerbread house making
Outdoors:
- 2 to 5 p.m. – Ice sculpting demonstration
- 2 to 6 p.m. – Miniature train rides
The New Jersey Ballet’s Nutcracker returns to Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center for shows at 1 pm and 6 pm. Please see Friday entry for details.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison presents It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, at 2 pm and 8 pm. Please see Thursday entry for details.
SUNDAY, DEC. 17:
The weekly indoors Morris County Winter Farmers’ Market is back, from 10 am to 2 pm at Alexander Hamilton School, 24 Mills St., Morristown. It’s here each Sunday through April 15, 2018.
No Christmas is complete without Handel’s Messiah. Matthew Webb will conduct Part 1 of this famed oratorio, with a baroque chamber orchestra and the Choral Scholars of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, at the church’s 10 a.m. service. Admission is free; all are welcome. At 57 E. Park Place.
Video: Handel’s Messiah coming to the Presbyterian Church in Morristown
More holiday fun at the Christmas Festival at the Morristown Green:
Santa House: Noon to 7 p.m. – Santa visits and photos*
Tent:
- 1 to 4 p.m. – Pinot’s palette popsicle stick ornament making
- 1 to 5 p.m. – Sponsor Exhibitors: The Education Association of Morris
- 5 to 7 p.m. – Holiday Performances with the Original Music School
Outdoors:
- 2 to 5 p.m. – Ice sculpting demonstration
- 2 to 6 p.m. – Miniature train rides
The New Jersey Ballet’s Nutcracker returns to Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center for shows at 1 pm and 6 pm. Please see Friday entry for details.
Hungarian pianist Peter Toth performs Schumann and Brahms at a free concert, 1 pm, at the Morristown National Historical Park, 30 Washington Place, Morristown. Call 973-539-2016 x204 for more.
Good Vibrations with Kristin comes to the Morris County Library at 1:30 pm. De-stress and be inspired by master storyteller/ healer Kristin Ace. Admission: Free. At 30 Hanover Ave., Whippany.
What were the holidays like in a fortress-like psychiatric hospital? Jazz star Grover Kemble will reminisce about his other life–as a music therapist at the former Greystone Park State Psychiatric Hospital–at 2 pm, at Acorn Hall in Morristown. Presented by the Morris County Historical Society. Admission: $7-$12; free for historical society members and children. At 68 Lafayette Ave. Limited seating; buy tickets online or call 973-267-3465.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison presents It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, at 2 pm and 7:30 pm. Please see Thursday entry for details.
Santa Claus really gets around this time of year. An elf told us he plans to visit Morristown’s South Street Creamery around 3 pm…
The life of Morristown zoning board member Larry Cohen, who died last month, will be celebrated from 3 pm to 6 pm at the Kellogg Club, at 25 Colles Ave.
The Grace Church Choirs, directed by Harmonium’s Anne Matlack, present an Advent Evensong featuring a Bach Cantata, at 4 pm at Grace Church in Madison. Free, all are welcome. At 4 Madison Ave. Call 973-377-0106 x17 for more.
