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Caroling On The Green

Friday, December 14, 2012

Caroling Returns to Town Green [Photos+Video]

Second annual event attracts about 350 people.

Last year, the inaugural Caroling on the Green event — the brainchild of resident Laura Goyer — attracted about 150 people. So for this year's event Thursday night, Whole Foods Marketing Team Leader  Katie Wolffe prepared hot cocoa and cider for about 200 people. It was gone in the first 25 minutes. Despite dropping temperatures that made a few children resemble a certain red-nosed reindeer, at least 350 people came to continue what is becoming a holiday tradition in Vienna: an enormous singalong of the season's favorite carols on the Town Green. The songs were led by Vienna Elementary School music teacher Dave Reynolds and local musician Robbie Schaefer, who sang from microphones set up under large decorative snowflakes while lyrics were …

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Tonight: Carol on the Town Green

Second annual event aims to bring community together for holiday fun.

Last December, Laura Goyer gathered up friends and neighbors on short notice to go caroling on the Vienna Town Green -- a tradition she remembered fondly from her childhood in Massachusetts. More than 150 people showed up to that event to sing Christmas Carols by the light of an iPod. And this year it looks like the tradition will stick. Goyer and Vienna Elementary School music teacher David Lee Reynolds Jr will be back on the Green at 7 p.m. Thursday to lead Vienna residents young and old in some of the season's favorite tunes. And this year, they have some more surprises, too. Local musician Robbie Schaefer will be on hand for the fun, helping Reynolds lead the crowd in song and accepting donations for the Vienna Jammers, the school's …

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