Ho-Ho-Hobart Christmas Choir

Applications to sing with us this year close in ONE WEEK, on Friday 6 September. Come and be part of the fun - details at www.hohohobart.com/join .

After a year off in 2023, this year will be our 5th season of carolling, and our biggest one so far! If you can read a bit of music and love-love-LOVE singing Christmas carols, we might be the choir for you. Read the basics at www.hohohobart.com/join and, if you like what you see, drop us a line at [email protected] and we'll send you our 2024 info/application pack! Applications close on 6 September. 🎅🎄✨

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If you love singing Christmas carols and the fact that we're already talking about Christmas in August doesn't send chills down your spine, we might just be the choir for you! Applications for membership in our 2024 carolling choir are NOW OPEN - head to http://www.hohohobart.com/join , and if you like the sound of us, send us an email at [email protected] and we'll send you the link to our online info and application pack!

http://www.hohohobart.com/join

The Ho-Ho-Hobart Christmas Choir will be returning for another fabulous season of carolling in 2024, woohoo! If you're a singer who'd like to apply to sing with this year's choir, please head over to www.hohohobart.com/join to see what's involved, then you can drop us a line via the website and we'll make sure we send you all the info you need when applications open in August. 🎅🎄✨

Our final gig for this year was at Salamanca Market this morning - what a way to finish up the season! Merry Christmas from all of us to all of you. Oh, and HO HO HO!!! 🎅🎄✨

Our second-last performance tonight was at the Farm Gate Market pop-up market at Macq Point. The traffic was almost gridlocked around the market site - if you heard a cry of 'I'm not getting any closer, you'll have to get out here!' before witnessing someone wearing a ridiculous amount of Christmas bling commando-rolling out of a vehicle even remotely in the vicinity of Evans Street, chances are it was one of us. The measures we take to sing carols for you know no bounds! Our final gig is this Saturday morning, 9.00am at Salamanca Market (Christmas Eve Carols at Salamanca Market). See you there, Hobart! :D

Our Claremont Plaza performance was heaps of fun yesterday - thanks to all the friendly shoppers who smiled, waved, sang along, or wished us a Merry Christmas on their way past.

We have two performances left for this year, and we'd love to see you!
- Tomorrow (Thursday), 5.00pm-5.30pm at the Farm Gate Market pop-up Christmas market in Evans Street, Macquarie Point; and
- Christmas Eve Carols at Salamanca Market, 9.00am-9.30am at the bottom of Gladstone Street.

📷 Anne Lacy

.... aaaaand, just like that, we only have THREE GIGS LEFT before we hang up our Santa hats, pack away our Rudolph noses, and turn off our flashing bauble necklaces for another year. Catch us while you can!
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Tuesday 20 December, 11.00am-11.45am:
Singing for shoppers outside Claremont Plaza (Main Road, Claremont).
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Thursday 22 December, 5.00pm-5.30pm:
Busking at the Farm Gate Market's special pre-Christmas pop-up market at Macq Point. Come and sing along, and throw a few coins in our busking bucket - we promise to spend our earnings on Christmas treats! :)
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Saturday 24 December, 9.00am-9.30am:
It's our final gig of the year and we're going out in style at Salamanca Market. Get your bling on, grab your friends, and get to the bottom of Gladstone Street where we'll be singing up a storm (you're welcome to join in too!). See Christmas Eve Carols at Salamanca Market for full details.
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HO HO HO!
www.hohohobart.com/see

We had a fabulous time at Salamanca Market today, performing with Auslan interpreter Ben. Yes, he is wearing baubles in his beard. Yes, he did dye his beard green. We have to concede that he's outdone us in the bling stakes. Thanks Ben, and thanks to everyone who stopped and listened and sang along.

We've got a couple of days off, then we're out at Claremont Plaza on Tuesday from 11am, at the Farm Gate Market pop-up market on Thursday afternoon (Macq Point), then our final gig is 9.00am on Christmas Eve at Salamanca Market. Ho Ho Ho! :D

www.hohohobart.com/see

We had a fabulous time at the Tasmanian Produce Market this morning - though with all the amazing food trucks cooking up a storm our tummy rumblings may well have been louder than our singing. Next up we're at Salamanca Market at 1.00pm today, singing for half an hour, with special guest Ben who will be Auslan interpreting our performance. Get out there and get festive, Hobart! 🎅🎄✨

www.hohohobart.com/see

We're past the halfway point in our season (seven gigs down, five to go) and we're having a fantastic time! On Wednesday we sang at the St Therese's Multicultural Community Carols in Moonah, and last night we were the surprise entertainment at the St Anns' Living Christmas gathering in Old Beach. Next up - Tasmanian Produce Market and Salamanca Market tomorrow! Ho Ho Ho!
www.hohohobart.com/see

This Saturday! Auslan-interpreted carols at Salamanca Market, 1.00pm-1.30pm. 🎄✨

🎄🎄🎄The Ho-Ho-Hobart Christmas Choir will be bringing some festive cheer to Salamanca Market this Saturday from 1 pm. You can find them at Montpellier Retreat, and as a special treat this Saturday, they will also have an Auslan interpreter with them.

THIS WEEK'S PUBLIC PERFORMANCES!!!
Full details on our website, www.hohohobart.com/see
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Tonight, Wed 14 December, 6.00pm-9.00pm:
Multicultural Community Carols at St Therese's School (Moonah). This event has been moved undercover so rug up and get there for some fantastic entertainment! BYO chair + BYO picnic or buy from food vans onsite.
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Sat 17 December (morning)
Tasmanian Produce Market in Bellerive - we'll be singing 10.00-10.30am and 10.45am-11.00am.
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Sat 17 December (afternoon)
Salamanca Market - *** AUSLAN-INTERPRETED PERFORMANCE ***
1.00pm-1.30pm at the bottom of Montpelier Retreat (the busking spot in between The Whaler and Retro Cafe).
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Next week we'll be at Claremont Plaza, Farm Gate Market's pop-up pre-Christmas market at Macq Point, and back to Salamanca Market for Christmas Eve. Check our website for details. Ho Ho Ho!

Today we sang at Hobart North Uniting Church, for a boutique in-house audience plus a livestream audience - it was so much fun! As our only indoor performance of this season, it was a joy to sing our full program in the fantastic acoustics of this lovely church - and we're pretty sure the team at HNUC will take the trophy for 'best afternoon tea of the season'!

Next up we're at the St Therese's School Multicultural Community Carols on Wednesday evening (14 Dec). Come on down for our singing and blinging! :)

www.hohohobart.com/see

We had great fun performing (and leading the massed finale) at the John Turnbull Carols last night, especially with the sing-along moshpit that gathered down the front! Today we're at the Hobart North Uniting Church for a community carols sing-along, kicking off at 2pm. With a rainy afternoon forecast, it's exceptionally good timing for our first indoor gig of the season! ✨
2022 performance calendar: www.hohohobart.com/see

This year's Lenah Valley Fire Brigade Christmas tree sale was BIG - so big that they sold out a day early! Good thing we turned up to sing today and not tomorrow. We had a fantastic time. 🎄🎄🎄

THIS WEEKEND'S PERFORMANCES - WOOHOOOOO!
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Saturday 10 December, 10.00am - 10.30am:
Lenah Valley Fire Brigade fundraising Christmas tree sale (come for a tree, stay for the carols, leave with 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' on a loop in your brain for a month. You're welcome).
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Saturday 10 December, evening:
We're part of the fantastic Carols at John Turnbull event in Lenah Valley. Limber up your vocal cords and get your 'fa la la la laaaaahs' ready, because we'll be expecting you to sing along!
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Sunday 11 December, 2.00pm:
We'll be singing our full carols program in sing-along style at the Hobart North Uniting Church in Swan Street (North Hobart). This is a free event, all welcome. Afternoon tea will be available afterwards, so you can work up an appetite singing up a storm with us! The event will also be livestreamed - see our website for the streaming link.
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Other public performances in our calendar include:
- Wednesday 14 December - Multicultural Community Carols evening at St Therese's School (Moonah)
- Saturday 17 December - Tasmanian Produce Market at Bellerive and Salamanca Market in Battery Point
- and more, more, more!
For full details, head to www.hohohobart.com/see. Ho Ho Ho!

NEW PERFORMANCE ADDED TO OUR CALENDAR!
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We'll be singing at the Lenah Valley Fire Brigade annual Christmas tree fundraiser this Saturday morning! Unfortunately it's too late in the season to learn 'O Christmas Tree' but we'll have heaps of other favourites to get you in the mood for selecting the perfect tree. We'll be singing and blinging at 10.00am for half an hour - come along and buy a tree to support this fantastic volunteer organisation.

www.hohohobart.com/see

We had a really fun gig tonight - singing for guests as they arrived by ferry for a Christmas party at MyState Arena. Once again we were too preoccupied to get photos of us singing in the fabulous pink GASP shelter (we'll work on this, we promise!), but we did manage to grab a few pics afterwards. We have a teeny bit of room left in our calendar this season - if you'd like some carols at your Christmas party, market, shopping evening, work dinner or anything else, please get in touch! 🎄

www.hohohobart.com

Get ready, Hobart! FREE PUBLIC PERFORMANCES by the Ho-Ho-Hobart Christmas Choir:

- Sat 10 December, 6.00pm-9.00pm: Carols at John Turnbull (Lenah Valley)
- Sun 11 December, 2.00pm-4.00pm: Community Carols at Hobart North Uniting Church (North Hobart)
- Wed 14 December, 6.00pm-9.00pm: St Therese's Multicultural Christmas Carols (Moonah)
- Sat 17 December, 10.00am-11.00am: Tasmanian Produce Market (Bellerive)
- Sat 17 December, 1.00pm-1.30pm: Salamanca Market (Auslan-interpreted performance)
- Tue 20 December, 11.00am-11.45am: Claremont Plaza Shopping Centre
- Sat 24 December, 9.00am-9.30am: Salamanca Market

Full details: www.hohohobart.com/see

We have heaps of fantastic free public performances this year - including this one at the Hobart North Uniting Church (Swan Street, North Hobart) on 11 December. We'll be performing all our carols in sing-along style - come along and join in (and stay for afternoon tea afterwards!). ✨

For a full list of our public performances, head to www.hohohobart.com/see.

We're up and away for another year, woohoo! We had a fantastic time at the Brighton Block Party today - it was a great start to our season (so great that we forgot to get a group photo to mark the auspicious occasion - but here's a pic of three of us hanging out sidestage!).

The performances page of our website has been updated with a few gigs (full details coming soon), and we're working on getting more in the calendar. Ho Ho Ho! :D www.hohohobart.com/see

📷 Lesley Fraser

*** DECK THOSE HALLS AND JINGLE THOSE BELLS! ***
Singer applications are now open for the 2022 season of the Ho-Ho-Hobart Christmas Choir. If you've seen us performing and thought 'I want to do that!', check out www.hohohobart.com/join - and if you reckon you fit the bill, drop a line to [email protected] and we'll send you a membership info pack. :) 🎅

Join Ho-Ho-Hobart Christmas Choir PO Box 458 North Hobart Tas 7002 Email: [email protected] Phone: 0409 54 74 74 (Jane)