Every year on Thanksgiving weekend, over 150 top artisans converge on Grass Valley for the Country

Christmas Faire.  Gifts, crafts, entertainment, gourmet festival food, hay wagon rides are just part of

this holiday event.  Log onto nevadacountyfair.com for details.  RiverBells will provide musical

entertainment, including Christmas favorites, for the Friday afternoon celebrants, beginning at 1:00 PM.

RiverBells will present their 4th Annual Holiday Concert, featuring "mostly Christmas music," at Trinity

Episcopal Cathedral, just west of the Capital City Freeway on Capitol Boulevard near downtown

Sacramento.  The concert is open to the public.  A donation offering will be requested.

Celebrate a holiday tradition at the California State Capitol in downtown Sacramento.  Holiday music

fills the dome daily, as California's State Capitol features holiday concerts in December.  Visitors can enjoy

a different musical presentation each day in a rotunda adorned with decorations and turn-of-the century

floral arrangements.  The Capitol's Holiday Music Program recaptures a tradition of festive music and

decor, which began with the grand opening of the Capitol in December of 1869.

 RiverBells will provide holiday music on Saturday afternoon, beginning at 12:00 PM.

Victorian Christmas, the old-fashioned celebration held each year in Nevada City, evokes holiday memories

of an earlier era.  During the event, Nevada City's landmark historical district is closed to motorized traffic and

transformed back in time. Christmas melodies and costumed characters, along with holiday celebrants fill the

streets, sampling the outdoor fare of friendly hawkers and vendors of food and goods offered by downtown

restaurants and specialty shops.  Log onto nevadacitychamber.com for details.

In 2007, Nevada City will feature its Victorian Christmas on Wednesday evenings, December 5, 12 and 19,

from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, and on two Sunday afternoons, December 9 and 16 from 1:30 to 6:00 PM.

RiverBells will provide musical entertainment, including Christmas favorites, for the Sunday afternoon

celebrants on December 16, beginning at 2:00 PM.  In previous years, RiverBells has performed

for this event in front of Broad Street Furnishings at 210 Broad Street in Nevada City.

Sponsored by the Crocker Art Museum and held on the fourth Sunday of each month from 3:00 to 4:00 PM,

the Crocker Classical Concerts feature a solo or small ensemble performing many classics and

original compositions.  Due to the Crocker Art Museum Expansion Project, the Concert Series venue

for 2008 is planned for the campus of California State University, Sacramento.

RiverBells will provide a concert on Sunday, November 23, 2008.

Log onto crockerartmuseum.org for more information.