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Candlelight walk, Vespers service, caroling, Santa in Libby Hill Park this Friday
12/09/2015 8:28 AM by John M
The annual holiday candlelight walk, Vespers service and caroling in Libby Hill Park are this Friday, December 11 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM. The candlelight walk will be led by bagpipes from the Greater Richmond Drums and Pipes.
Meet at one of two starting points at 7:00 PM:
- The bagpipes form at Jefferson Park in Union Hill to walk to St. John’s Church, where they will join up with folks attending an ecumenical Vespers service (which began at 7:00 PM)
- Following Vespers (7:30 PM) participants will meet at the corner of 25th and Grace Street for the continuation of the candlelight walk up to Libby Hill Park.
At Libby Hill Park there will be cider and cookies, music/caroling led by Church Hill Music Company and Santa will appear to formally open the Church Hill Association’s Holiday Weekend.
This entire holiday event is free and open to the public.
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My favorite event of the year on the Hill!
Why didn’t the pipes and drums play on the walk down from Jefferson Park. No love for Church Hill *north*/Union Hill? This is one tradition that is sacrosanct, and those lads and lassies cast a pall over my holiday spirit tonight.
This event was better than ever last night!! The bagpipe music was beautiful and the Santa was awesome!
Now I feel bad: apparently they didn’t have the police escort they were promised, which is why they didn’t play until St. John’s. My bad.
We have not yet found out why there was no police escort as two squad cars were pre-arranged? It might have been other higher priority community calls took the officers away from the candlelight walk. Nonetheless, the event was a big success with a crowd of three to four hundred people attending on Friday night and enjoying the walk, bagpipes, singing in Libby Hill Park and the arrival of Santa – to all the children’s (young and old) delight.
@6, why did you or someone not call the First Precinct? I just heard from a neighbor about this, and in the nearly twenty-five years of having the walk I’ve never heard of not having a police escort. I realize you have not lived up here for very long, but there is a tradition of having a police escort for safety reasons.
And @3, I’m really sorry the Union Hill folks did not have the bagpipers! I really doubt that was meant to not be inclusive, just someone not in the loop (or tradition), hopefully.