After seven years in Columbia Heights and Park View, this year's DC Wassail will be in the Bloomingdale, Eckington, and Truxton Circle area! A wassail is an English holiday tradition where singers go from door to door, offering songs and good cheer in exchange for treats. We run ours a bit differently; we pre-select a few houses to go to, prepare hot drinks at those places, and show up to each with a crowd of 60-70 revelers.
This year's wassail will be on Saturday, December 14, from about 2-5pm. We will have a short practice session at 1:30pm at the Kennedy Recreation Center, 1400 7th St NW, before heading to the neighborhood. Songbooks will be provided; all you need is yourself and a travel mug!
Our rough schedule of stops is: 2:15pm alley between Bates and Q NW, 100 block, 2:45pm unit block of R St NW, 3:15pm 1st St. between U and V NW, 3:45pm unit block of V St NW, 4:15pm 100 block of U NW, and at 4:45pm we will sing to the apple trees at Anxo Cidery & Pintxos Bar, 300 Florida Ave. NW. Our Facebook event for this year's wassail is here, and you can read a bit about us in this article in last year's Post.
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