Wu to host Boston Widespread Tree Lighting on Dec. 5
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Mayor Michelle Wu, the Boston Parks and Recreation Division, and title sponsor The Province of Nova Scotia will host Boston’s signature vacation celebration, the 82nd annual Boston Widespread Tree Lighting, on Thursday, December 5, from 6:00 p.m. to eight:00 p.m. in Boston Widespread, adjoining to the Customer’s Info Heart at 139 Tremont Road. Mayor Wu will likely be joined by mates from Nova Scotia. This celebration marks the 53rd yr that Nova Scotia has given a tree to the individuals of Boston as thanks for aid efforts following the December 6, 1917 explosion of a munitions ship in Halifax Harbor. Inside 24 hours of the catastrophe, a practice loaded with provides and emergency personnel traveled from Boston to Nova Scotia to help in restoration efforts.
“Each vacation season we have a good time a particular custom with our mates in Nova Scotia to commemorate the nice and cozy and significant connection between our two communities relationship again greater than a century,” mentioned Mayor Michelle Wu. “I need to thank Hugh & Liz Ryan and Nova Scotia for donating this stunning treasure that can shine brightly all through the vacation season in Boston. The Boston Widespread Tree lighting brings our residents collectively by compassion and vacation cheer every winter, and we’re excited to proceed the custom.”
WCVB Channel 5’s Chronicle co-anchors Anthony Everett and Shayna Seymour will host Channel 5’s dwell broadcast of the occasion starting at 7:00 p.m. American Authors, 5x platinum recording artists, and 2x Grammy nominees who bought their begin in Boston at Berklee Faculty of Music, will headline with hit songs like “Greatest Day of My Life” and “Christmas Karaoke”. This yr’s leisure consists of Halifax pop singer-songwriter Ria Mae, songs from A Christmas Carol carried out by the Commonwealth Shakespeare Firm, the soulful melodies of Mi’kmaq people artist and fiddler Morgan Toney, the legendary vocals of Boston-based jazz and gospel icon Renese King, a heartwarming efficiency by the Boston Youngsters’s Refrain, and extra.
The official vacation season kick-off in Boston consists of the lighting of the Metropolis of Boston’s official Christmas tree with roughly 5,000 lights, and the lighting of greater than 50,000 lights all through the Boston Widespread and Public Backyard. This yr’s tree is a 48-year-old, 45-foot-tall white spruce donated by Liz and Hugh Ryan of Mattie Settlement, Nova Scotia.
The vacation lights all through each parks will mild up in sequence shortly earlier than 8:00 p.m. when Mayor Wu is joined onstage by Santa Claus and Rudolph the Crimson-Nosed Reindeer. The present will shut with a pyrotechnic show by Pyrotecnico.
The occasion is supported by title sponsor Province of Nova Scotia, presenting sponsor Amazon, signature sponsors JetBlue and Meet Boston, group sponsors Financial institution of America and Constellation, and media companions WCVB Channel 5 and The Boston Globe. A sampling village will characteristic giveaways and refreshments from JetBlue, H.P. Hood, New England Espresso, Harry Potter, The Exhibition, and Elevating Cane’s whereas provides final. Sponsors of the “Make the Widespread Glow for the Holidays” who make the lighting of the Widespread and Public Backyard potential embrace The Lynch Household Basis, the Massachusetts Conference Heart Authority, the Buddies of the Public Backyard, and Gilbane Constructing Firm.
Instantly following the celebration on the Boston Widespread, the Buddies of the Public Backyard and the Committee to Mild Commonwealth Avenue Mall will flip the swap to mild up Commonwealth Avenue Mall within the Again Bay. This occasion marks the second yr that the lights on Commonwealth Avenue Mall will prolong all the way in which to Kenmore Sq..
Please name (617) 635-4505 or go to boston.gov/boston-common-tree-lighting for extra details about the festivities. To remain updated with information and occasions in Boston parks, join the e-mail record at bit.ly/Get-Parks-Emails and observe the social channels @bostonparksdept on Twitter, Fb, and Instagram.
ENCHANTED TROLLEY COMES TO EASTIE DEC. 8
For the twenty eighth yr, the Mayor’s Enchanted Trolley Tour will proceed the festive custom of lighting vacation timber whereas bringing vacation spirit to youngsters throughout Boston. The occasion is sponsored by Financial institution of America, and consists of visits with Santa, tree lightings, and extra.
This yr, the Mayor’s Enchanted Trolley Tour will begin on Saturday, December 7, and finish on Sunday, December 8, in neighborhoods all through Boston.
Sunday December 8
• 4 p.m. – Paul Revere Mall, North Finish
• 5 p.m. – Winthrop Sq. (the Coaching Subject), Charlestown
• 6:15 p.m. – Maverick Sq., East Boston
