Holiday Stroll & Christmas Wrap

Posted in Blog by Brooke Trout

Season’s Greetings My Friends!

I have a lot of fun musical things to share for the month of December! I will be performing as a singing Christmas elf both with and without Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus! Some of you may remember that I was a singing Christmas elf for Santa previously. It has been about 15 years since me and the Claus’ crossed paths but fortunately we met at a party back in May and decided it would be a great idea to work together again! Since it had been so long they wanted me to audition so I prepared a set of about 11 songs, both finger-picked ballads and more upbeat strummed selections. When I arrived at their top-secret satellite location I was presented with a smorgasbord of candy corn (it is a vegetable), candy canes, fresh baked chocolate chip cookies (a proprietary recipe) and two types of syrup. Now I am only sharing this information, so you are aware of just how legitimate this meeting was!

So in terms of my appearances as an elf this year I first want to tell you about the Christmas Wrap held at the Kalispell Center Mall. This is the largest fundraiser of the year for the Kalispell Senior Center. You bring your presents and they will be gift wrapped for a donation of your choosing. I will be there as a singing Christmas elf to promote the event and will be doing periodic solo acoustic performances of Christmas songs from December 2nd through December 23rd. For more details check out the newsletter by yours truly on kalispellseniorcenter.com!

I’ll also be appearing with Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus at the Downtown Kalispell Holiday Stroll & Annual Community Tree Lighting Celebration on December 6th from 5 to 8 p.m. Over 45 downtown businesses will be providing you with snacks, drinks, music and store-wide specials. I’ll be walking up and down main street with Mr. & Mrs. Claus, passing out candy canes and singing Christmas carols. You also have to head down to Depot Park for the tree lighting ceremony where I’m told Santa will be giving a speech to start off the holiday season right! This is a free family event. You can vote for your favorite holiday store front by scanning the QR code at downtownkalispell.com.

I wish you all the happiest of holidays and all the best for the forthcoming new year!