A Christmas Pageant like you’ve never seen before! Cue two hilarious shepherds from Devonshire who spill their beer and drop their wieners in the fire when the angels appear; or a Scottish innkeeper who is so stressed, he even has customers sleeping the broom closet; or an Indian Wiseman from the East, Toronto—all presented in modern-day perspectives through the one-man storytelling talents of Justyn Rees.

Your host, singer-songwriter Russ Rosen and multi-instrumentalist Brett Ziegler intertwine this seasonal story with swirls of musical commentary and breaths of unspoken narrative. With nightly musical performances by featured guests Shari Ulrich, Graham Ord, Wild Blue Herons and Marcus Mosely—it’s a dynamite combination! This is Christmas Tales.

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This show will feature THE WILD BLUE HERONS Darlene Cooper (Ketchum) and Bill Sample

Darlene has worked with Shari Ulrich, Jane Mortifee, Ann Mortifee, both Leon and Eric Bibb and other Vancouver artists and toured the Okanagan and Kootenays the past 4 summers with the Darlene Ketchum Quartet. She is the lead singer for “Wild Blue Herons”. and in addition, she is the choral director of the Marcus Mosely Chorale alongside Marcus Mosely and Bill Sample and has written and arranged music for the chorale. As a composer, the vocal freedom of jazz, combined with the rich chords and funky laid-back groove inspire her songs.

Bill’s career has spanned four decades and his reputation is unsurpassed. Bill is a ‘fir