Actual Live Christmas Music Shows In Beacon - Featuring A Few Beaconites and Sloan Wainwright

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You know you’re listening to 92.1 FM now that it’s officially December, and hopefully you’re catching other holiday songs on other stations to get you out of that 20-song loop on the radio station dedicated to Christmas music since before Thanksgiving.

Amazing news for you: You can break out of the music in your car and step into the Towne Crier on Beacon’s Main Street for not one, but several Christmas music shows. One of them features Sloan Wainwright (aunt of Rufus Wainwright, who has several albums, or maybe you heard him on a Starbucks mix-tape album back when Starbucks was making those). Sloan and Rufus Wainwright are from a musical family, but Sloan has been dubbed “The Voice” (see below for why). Sloan’s Beacon show is the “20th Annual SLOAN WAINWRIGHT & FRIENDS Holiday Whiz-Bang Shin-Dig” on Saturday, December 14, 2019 at the Towne Crier, and comes packed with a Santa, a Muppet, and backup singers!

For the past 20 years, Sloan Wainwright has performed this show, which includes her merry posse of harmony-singing “Sloan Flakes” - some of whom are Beaconites you know, including Amy Soucy, a Beacon-based folk singer (Sloan Wainwright described her voice on her 2015 album “This River” as “enchanting,”) as well as Sharon Goldman (listen to her music here - if you like Sally Dworsky, you’ll like Sharon Goldman).

The show contains a mix of Christmas favorites (covers) like “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Run, Run, Rudolph,” and “Blue Christmas,” along with original songs from Sloan and some of the group. There are also special guest artists who do their own sets.

This year, the guest artists include The Empty Bottle Ramblers - who bring driving Cajun accordion two-steps and sweet twin-fiddle waltzes of southwest Louisiana. The multi-instrumentalist, Hubby Jenkins, formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops (OMG their fiddle and banjo sounds), will also be performing.

Buy tickets here for the Sloan Wainwright and Friends Holiday Whiz-Bang Shin-Dig. But also make note of these other Christmas shows this December!

INSIDER TIP: The Towne Crier has the big performance room for the music in the back, but their restaurant is pretty large too, and is kid-friendly and large-party friendly (they even have a separate bar room). If your friends are visiting you on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, and there is just no room for you in any restaurant, you have a good chance of not only finding room at the Towne Crier for all of you, but you’ll find a pretty wide-ranging menu for your gluten-free and vegan friends, plus those who like dessert. Their grilled cheese, for instance, is spot-on good. You may or may not find yourself eating it off of a kid’s plate next to you. (It’s even more perfect with soup.) Next time, the Towne Crier may be the first on your list of go-to restaurants to hit.

If you want to hear Sloan Wainwright outside of holiday songs, listen to this rendition of “Walkin’ After Midnight.” No wonder she is called “The Voice” in her musical family!