John Goodman’s “An Early American Christmas” will be held Tuesday, December 6, at 6 p.m. at the Bladen County Public Library in Elizabethtown.
“Early American Christmas” is a celebration of the Christmas season which draws upon the Scriptures and upon song and story from an earlier era in our nation’s history. A great many of the favorite songs and carols which we sing in observance of this season had their origins in England, Germany, France and other European lands.
The “New World” also yielded a smaller but rich heritage of music for Advent and Christmas. This program draws upon and shares music from various traditions of this country: gospel, shaped notes, Appalachian, African American. It further shares recollections from earlier Christmases as recorded in A Foxfire Christmas: Appalachian Memories and Traditions and other resources.
Presbyterian minister John Goodman came to have a deep love of the traditional music of America during his 23 years as a West Virginian before he made Elizabethtown, North Carolina his home beginning in 2000. He also adopted the lap dulcimer and later other folk instruments. “Early American Christmas” is John’s more recent version of a similar service he originally developed in his West Virginia years.
For more information about this event, call 910-862-6990.
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