An eight-piece orchestra, a bounty of bows and gay apparel and 200 members of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus singing traditional favorites and modern classics put the merry into Christmas with their 2018 holiday concert “Holiday Bells, Brass and Boys.”
The first performance is at 7:30 p.m. this Sunday, Dec. 1, at Provincetown Town Hall for P’town’s annual Holly Folly Weekend (no brass band for this show). For details, go to ptoptown.org/holly-folly.
Then, the boys are back in Boston for the following two weekends with a 3 and 7 p.m. concert on Sunday, Dec. 9, followed by 8 p.m. shows on Friday–Sunday, Dec. 14–16, at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston. For details, go to bgmc.org.
The title of the show comes from the opening piece “Holiday Bells, Brass and Boys,” written by Chorus member David Shaffer. The second half features the parody “Santa’s Turn,” by Chorus member Jay Baer, and the concert ends with the holiday medley “Pictures of a Season” by the Chorus’s principal accompanist and assistant music director Chad Weirick.
For more on Provincetown’s Holly Folly weekend (Thursday, Nov. 29, through Sunday , Dec. 2)—featuring festivities throughout the town, including piano sing-a-longs, drag brunches, a “Santa Speedo Run” to benefit local nonprofits, great shopping specials, and a fierce competition of holiday decorations among guest houses and establishments town-wide—go to ptown.org/holly-folly.
