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Portland Revels celebrates the seasons through song, dance, story and ritual of the past and present, creating community across generations and cultures. 



Coming events - check our CALENDAR page for details.
What is the Christmas Revels?

Each December, Portland Revels presents a multifaceted stage production to welcome the winter season. Combining instrumental and choral music, children's songs and games, ritual and folk dance traditions, drama, poetry, and audience participation, this event springs from an age-old tradition of winter solstice celebration.  Eleven matinee and evening Christmas Revels performances are presented in downtown Portland, Oregon in the handsome historic theater of the Scottish Rite Center at 1512 SW Morrison, Portland 97205. (SW 15th and Morrison) 

In 2010 patrons from more than 85 towns and cites came to see the Christmas Revels.

Please see our  This Years Show page for details of our next Christmas Revels show! 

In addition, we sponsor fun seasonal events year-round. We've had great fun with new events this year, and we hope you'll think of joining us "this year and every year" for year-round celebrations.

The Christmas Revels Show: A cast of 75 or so includes the Portland Brass Quintet, the Bridgetown Morris Men,instrumentalists, Portland actors, and volunteer adult/teen/children choruses drawn from throughout the city. It is professionally staged, costumed, and lighted. Portland's first Christmas Revels—set in the Middle Ages—was presented in 1995 at Portland State University's Lincoln Hall. In 1997, the Revels audience outgrew Lincoln Hall and the show moved to the Scottish Rite Theater, where it has since presented annual holiday shows with Medieval, Middle Eastern, Celtic, Victorian, and Scottish themes. 
 
Burl Ross as Fool - Haddon Hall 2007
Our 2011 Christmas Revels show took us to Medieval England, where audiences enjoyed the spectacle amd delights of winter solstice feasting and fun inside the castle. In 2006, our show was grounded in 13th-century French culture. In 2007 the show visited Haddon Hall and a number of periods in English history, in 2008 we enjoyed Scandinavian music, folklore, and traditions. In 2009 we enjoyed a rollicking show honoring Irish cultural holiday traditions featuring fiddler Kevin Burke, Irish dancer Maldon Meehan and friends. 2010 took us to the historic Al-Andalus period in Spain. The cultural focus changes from year to year, but the Christmas Revels is always about celebrating the season.

 We hope you will join with us as we gather, to add joy and celebration in community to your life!
 

"For those that attend the Christmas Revels it is the best gift of the season." KC Cowan, ArtBeat OPB

For information about our show, please click on that link in selections on left of page. Our tickets go on sale to the general public in late October. You can contact us year-round at info-at-portlandrevels.org or by phone at 503-274-4654.


To contact the Revels office year round, please email info-at-portlandrevels.org or call 503-274-4654.

Revels is a federally registered service mark of Revels Inc, Watertown MA.



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We are very grateful to all of our key sponsors, without whom we could not succeed in bringing our holiday show and other seasonal events to Portland audiences:
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