Nov. 2, 2023

Tickets available for Yuletide Feaste holiday celebration Dec. 1-2

By Georgia McGonigle, communication assistant

Northwest Missouri State University’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts will host its 48th Yuletide Feaste with an elegant royal meal and performances by the Madraliers chamber choir, the Royale Brass Quintet and the Renaissance Recorder Consort.

The Feaste will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, and Saturday, Dec. 2, in the J.W. Jones Student Union Ballroom.

“It’s a well-curated event with fun for the whole family,” Dr. Adam Zrust, an assistant professor of music and director of the Madraliers, said. “It’s a great meal, great entertainment and long-standing tradition in our community.”

Northwest's Yuletide Feaste is a holiday tradition that features with an elegant royal meal and performances by the Madraliers chamber choir, the Royale Brass Quintet and the Renaissance Recorder Consort.

Tickets are $40 and can be purchased online at www.nwmissouri.edu/finearts/music/yuletide.htm.

Attendance is limited to 320 guests each evening, and all tickets are for reserved seating. No tickets will be sold at the door.

At the Yuletide Feaste, guests celebrate Christmas through the evening’s festivities, highly stylized after the holiday traditions of old England. The menu, performances and decorations are reminiscent of 16th-century Tudor England.

The menu includes wassail, bacon bleu cheese and cranberry cheeseball with pecans, carved steamship with au jus and horseradish sauce, slow roasted pork loin with winter fruit and port sauce, roasted parsnips and sweet potatoes with sweet pecan drizzle, green beans with mushroom and bacon and pumpkin mousse with bittersweet chocolate sauce and ginger caramel crunch.

The Madraliers is a select ensemble that performs music spanning from the 16th century through contemporary composers. In the spring, the ensemble becomes Celebration, presenting an exciting variety of choreographed numbers, vocal jazz and ballads.

For more information about the Yuletide Feaste, contact the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at 660.562.1326.