Breaking up Christmas gets bigger this year

This year's "Breaking Up Christmas" is a little bigger, a year older, and little bit longer than last year's sold-out event.

So what's on tap for this year? Glad you asked.

The event is packed with old-time open jams, old time string band performances, strum and sing jams with projected chord changes for ukes and guitars, workshops, cake walks, an audience judged cookie baking contest, contra, barn and flatfoot dancing.

Oh, and there are children's activities the full 6 hours, comfort food and prizes, and popular friend Old Time Dave Talmadge has agreed to return with his stilt walking, hula hooping, banjo playing, dance calling, emceeing talents in tow.

All the fun takes place on Dec. 29 starting at noon on the second flood of Hatch Street Studios, 88 Hatch Street, New Bedofrd, in the Southcoast Lessons space. 

Fiddler and music instructor Jeff Angeley launched the SouthCoast version of Breaking up Christmas last year with a 3-hour music extravaganza.

Breaking up Christmas is an old Appalachian tradition that celebrates the interval between Christmas and New Year’s with a week or more of revelry.

Tickets are $20 and up. The fun begins at noon.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.eventbrite.com/e/breaking-up-christmas-tickets-52157791358?aff=aff0evvnt